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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
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To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Subject: Re: What's left over.
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 04:38:01 +0100
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On Thursday 31 October 2002 07:21, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not against sane ACLs (POSIX ACLs are not) or
> EAs [...]

POSIX ACLs are more complicated than what would be inherently necessary, if we 
were in a situation where we could design from scratch. Unfortunately we are 
not in that situation. I've heard dozens of people complain about POSIX ACLs 
(and other kinds as well); nobody was able to come up with something truly 
better so far.

--Andreas.

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