Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:47:27PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:24:12PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> > > > Marc Perkel writes:

[...]

> > > > Because in Unix a name is not an attribute of a file.

> > >  there is no excuse.

> > It's not an excuse, it's part of a coherent view of how things work. Just
> > as Netware used to have its, and DOS had its (sort of). As the world view
> > underneath Unix, it is darn hard to "fix".
> > 
> > [This discussion sounds quite a lot like it is /you/ who needs "fixing",
> >  i.e., first wrap your head around Unix' ways...]

>  asking "ordinary" people to do that is unrealistic: surely you know
>  that?

And asking ordinary people to understand the (much more complex and opaque)
idea of "inheriting permissions from directories (sometimes, unless...)" is
surely much easier...

>  i just spent two hours helping a friend who wasn't familiar
>  with the concept of "give root password for maintenance or
>  press ctrl-d" they'd been pressing ctrl-d because it said so
>  and now i'm going to have a 5-hour round-trip journey and possibly
>  an overnight stay to sort out the mess.

Any suggestion for a better message?

[...]

>  example permissions (from postfix.te, policy source version 18):
> 
> 	allow postfix_$1_t { sbin_t bin_t }:dir r_dir_perms;
> 	allow postfix_$1_t { bin_t usr_t }:lnk_file { getattr read };
> 	allow postfix_$1_t shell_exec_t:file rx_file_perms;
> 
>  i am confident enough with selinux to say that those are file
>  and directory permissions.

OK, now I know for sure you are just an elaborate troll. SELinux is
/harder/ to grasp than Unix permissions, and /requires/ you to grasp them
as foundation.

[...]

> > >  in what way is it possible for linux to fully support the NTFS
> > >  filesystem?
> > 
> > If you ask me, preferably not at all, just let that unholy mess quietly go
> > the way of the dinosaurs. Sadly, interoperability is required at times,
> > so...
> 
>  *sigh*, tell me about it.  well, when reactos gets its NTFS driver, i
>  will be sure to let you know.  i promise :)

Great. Just keep in mind that time wasted on LKML is time taken away from
NTFS for ReactOS.
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