Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965102AbVJEKJw (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 06:09:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965103AbVJEKJv (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 06:09:51 -0400 Received: from free.hands.com ([83.142.228.128]:31907 "EHLO free.hands.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965102AbVJEKJv (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 06:09:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:09:42 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: "D. Hazelton" Cc: Marc Perkel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-ID: <20051005100942.GN10538@lkcl.net> References: <20051002204703.GG6290@lkcl.net> <4342DC4D.8090908@perkel.com> <200510050122.39307.dhazelton@enter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510050122.39307.dhazelton@enter.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-hands-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: lkcl@lkcl.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 668 Lines: 18 On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:22:33AM +0000, D. Hazelton wrote: > On Tuesday 04 October 2005 19:47, Marc Perkel wrote: > As someone else pointed out, this is because unlinking is related to > your access permissions on the parent directory and not the file. that's POSIX. i trust that POSIX has not been hard-coded into the entire design of the linux kernel filesystem architecture _just_ because it's ... POSIX. l. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/