Re: Supporting POSIX *users*

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

> Jonathan won't consider anything defensible other than EROS.

More precisely: Jonathan would *arguably* not consider anything
defensible other than EROS, Coyotos, KeyKOS, and maybe a few others.

You should have a look at the slides of his talk during the Libre
Software Meeting where he arguably shows the weaknesses of ACL-based
systems, purposefully in a provocative way:

  http://medias.2005.rencontresmondiales.org/topics/os/slides/shapiro-eros.pdf
  
http://medias.2005.rencontresmondiales.org/topics/os/speeches/shapiro-eros-part1.ogg
  
http://medias.2005.rencontresmondiales.org/topics/os/speeches/shapiro-eros-part2.ogg

Most of the discussions that have taken place on this list over the last
month assume that you have an understanding of these arguments.

Ludovic.