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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:39:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: What's left over.
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 	No.  I'm saying that ACLs do not have a point until at least basic
> userland gets ready for setups people want ACLs for.  Adding features that
> can't be used until $BIG_WORK is done is idiocy in the best case and
> danger in the worst.  Especially since $BIG_WORK does not depend on these
> features.

I think samba alone counts as enough user-land usage. 

And if it turns out nobody else ever wants to use them, that's fine too.

		Linus

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