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From:
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
Date:
December 9, 2008 18:38
Subject:
Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems
Message ID:
B445B7AB-BB1D-482D-B09C-40BE21E4A5DA@ece.cmu.edu
On 2008 Dec 9, at 21:11, Charles Bailey wrote:
> It may well be that a fine-grained interface isn't practical, but
> perhaps there are some basics that we could implement, such as
>
> - set owner of this thing
> - (maybe) set group of this thing

Group is problematic; I don't recall Windows having group ownership  
(as distinct from group ACLs), and AFS PTS groups are very different  
from Unix groups.

As I said, I'm all in favor of such an API, just skeptical that a  
useful one can be devised.

-- 
brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH



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