Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760005AbXHTO30 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:29:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756312AbXHTO3S (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:29:18 -0400 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([72.242.190.170]:3478 "EHLO iradimed.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754898AbXHTO3R (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:29:17 -0400 Message-ID: <46C9A542.7020902@cfl.rr.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:29:22 -0400 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Perkel CC: Al Viro , Kyle Moffett , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Michael Tharp , alan , LKML Kernel , Lennart Sorensen , Al Viro Subject: Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems References: <900404.40407.qm@web52501.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <900404.40407.qm@web52501.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Aug 2007 14:29:22.0689 (UTC) FILETIME=[807EEF10:01C7E336] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.5.0.1243-5.0.1021-15368.001 X-TM-AS-Result: No--11.585200-5.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 829 Lines: 21 Marc Perkel wrote: > No Al, there isn't any shortage of arrogance here. > > Let me try to repeat what I'm talking about as simply > as I can. > > First - I'm describing a kind of functionality and > suggesting Linux should have it. I know a lot of it > can be done because much of what I'm suggesting is > already working in Windows and Netware. Let's not get confused here... ._I_ am suggesting a feature that windows and netware have done already, that being inheritable acls. YOU suggested that permissions be configurable based on pattern matching on the name of the file. - 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/