[Klug-general] Will this revolutionise the linux vs windows war?

Karl Lattimer karl at qdh.org.uk
Thu Jan 18 12:17:18 GMT 2007


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>
> Nothing wrong in THEORY with ACLs and hence NTFS has perfectly good
> file permissions, and its perfectly reasonable to write a library to
> convert standard owner, group, world file permissions in the ACLs.

Interesting idea, the problem is that the windows ACLs don't allow  
for execute or suid bits, I wonder how these could be mapped.

You any good at C? Could be an interesting extension to NTFSv3

> If
> we were talking FAT then it would be another matter.
> It even says they started with the Live CD Image so I don't think a
> glorified live CD is a bad description the glorification is that you
> can write to the image.

Its a pretty big difference though!

K,






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