Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932128AbVJGANf (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 20:13:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932160AbVJGANe (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 20:13:34 -0400 Received: from [64.162.99.240] ([64.162.99.240]:38416 "EHLO spamtest2.viacore.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932128AbVJGANe (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 20:13:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4345BD2F.90709@spamtest.viacore.net> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:11:27 -0700 From: Joe Bob Spamtest User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Fedora/1.7.12-1.5.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Perkel CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? References: <4TiWy-4HQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4U0XH-3Gp-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <87k6gsjalu.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <4343E611.1000901@perkel.com> <20051005144441.GC8011@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4343E7AC.6000607@perkel.com> In-Reply-To: <4343E7AC.6000607@perkel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1249 Lines: 32 Marc Perkel wrote: >> It would be an incredibly idiotic system that auto hides files just >> because you can't use them. We have ways to hide files in user space >> for the convinience of users. It would be too inconvinient for >> applications if the OS hid files on us. >> >> Len Sorensen > > What is incredibly idiotic is a file system that allws you to delete > files that you have no write access to. That is stupid beyond belief and > only the Unix community doesn't get it. A: You're stupid! B: No, You're stupid! A: My dad can beat up your dad! B: No, my dad can beat up yours! A: My penis is bigger than yours! B: No, my penis is bigger! A: (ad infinium) Look, for those of you who love their beloved netware, go back and use it. You don't like the way the unix filesystems work because you don't UNDERSTAND how they work. You're talking about a bunch of special-case stuff here -- POSIX ACLs and SELinux are your answer. Use them. But for christ's sake, STOP BITCHING ABOUT NETWARE. - 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/