scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
Anthk <anthk@disroot.org> writes:
On 2026-02-03, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
A patch was submitted some years ago to add Windows-style ACL features >>>> to Linux, but it was rejected on the grounds that they can too often
produce surprising and counterintuitive effects. Which is something
that Windows sysadmins would be all too familiar with ...
Linux had optional ACL's in FS since late 90's at least.
Access control lists were a feature of TOPS-20 in the 1980s.
They were a features of the Burroughs MCP in the 1960s (called Guard Files).
Thus demonstrating once again that Everything Old Is new Again, or vice versa...
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