Re: 4th set of permission bits?

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:03:18PM -0300, Ivan Jager wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 01:14:47PM -0300, Ivan Jager wrote:
> > > IMHO, the best solution would be to drop the last set of permissions and
> > > port the ACL patch for Linux from http://acl.bestbits.at/ :) How hard
> > > would that be?
> > 
> > Show us.
> 
> If you mean you want me to port it, I am sure I will need a lot of help.

I will tell you right now that you can't port the patch. You would need to
write a cmpletely different implementation.

I am also saying that those goals ar enot orthogonal. The Hurd is flexible
enough to carry both. And, as a last note, the fourthe set of permissions is
a logical consequence of the fact that the Hurd users have uid and gid
*sets*, which might be empty.

> I asked how hard it would be because I don't know if it is just copying
> and changing some names of variables, or if it practicaly needs to be
> rewriten.

Why did you say that it would be the best solution then?

Thanks,
Marcus

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