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Re: the deadly hypercube of death, or: handling permissions
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Tom Bachmann |
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Re: the deadly hypercube of death, or: handling permissions |
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Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:34:31 +0200 |
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Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I assume you're talking about "directories" within a file system, right?
>
I guess not, see below.
> Similarly, a non-file-system-style "directory" abstraction would just
> bind names to directories or other arbitrary objects, not just files (the
> current Hurd already permits that but the interfaces are still very
> file-system-oriented). Thus, "read-only" permission does not make much
> sense in this context. Read/write permissions just makes sense for "file"
> objects.
>
This is mostly what the directories i guess he is talking about do. But
usually, you have some generic ``write right'' that contains more
authority than a ``read capability''. Take for instance a directory of
the kind we are talking about. ``write right'' would here e.g. mean that
you can create more entries.
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