On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:44:50PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Yes - that's a good example. Git is far more powerful > and a different paradigm for CVS. Someone had to think > outside the box and come up with a new way of looking > at things. I'm trying to do something like that with > this idea. > > To me it make more sense to get rid of file > permissions and look at people permissions. It reminds > me of a story a friend of mine told about her 4 year > old son. > > The story was that they were driving down the road > when they saw a wheel come off a truck. The son said, > "look mommy, that wheel lost it's truck." > > To me files are like the wheel. Rather than having the > file know all it's owners it makes more sense for the > owners to know it's files.
Except for the fact that on most systems each owner may have millions of files, while very rarely does a file have more than a few dozen owners or groups. Having to wade through the permissions of millions of things seems like a lot more work than checking a few dozen things. Also the thing is that I care who can access files, while I do not really care what particular set of files a user has access to. It is the data I am protecting, not the user. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/