-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I assume you're talking about "directories" within a file system, right? >
I guess not, see below. > Similarly, a non-file-system-style "directory" abstraction would just > bind names to directories or other arbitrary objects, not just files (the > current Hurd already permits that but the interfaces are still very > file-system-oriented). Thus, "read-only" permission does not make much > sense in this context. Read/write permissions just makes sense for "file" > objects. > This is mostly what the directories i guess he is talking about do. But usually, you have some generic ``write right'' that contains more authority than a ``read capability''. Take for instance a directory of the kind we are talking about. ``write right'' would here e.g. mean that you can create more entries. - -- - -ness- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEUNZ3vD/ijq9JWhsRAmQxAJ9WhG0zb5WrsKqqG8VqX1DjTTEBQACfSXFq dc1nQScmuCVPch9sLwgN89o= =5k3B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
