Re: 4th set of permission bits?

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 02:59:24PM -0300, Ivan Jager wrote:
> > I am also saying that those goals ar enot orthogonal. The Hurd is flexible
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^ That should say 
exclusive
Ooops.

> > enough to carry both. And, as a last note, the fourthe set of permissions is
> > a logical consequence of the fact that the Hurd users have uid and gid
> > *sets*, which might be empty.
> 
> Does that mean the ACLs could be stored the same way, but they would be
> interpreted differently?

I don't know how to implement ACLs in the Hurd.

> I think I need to do some more reading... Where is that explained?

In the Hurd source.
 
Marcus

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