On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:13:40PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > Here is a set of three patches which implement some general > > infrastructure and on top of that, acls for tmpfs and /dev/pts files. > > Why would you want ACLs on /dev/pts?
That's actually a good question. The patch allows to give several people access to the same terminal, which sometimes comes in handy with tools like screen (at least in its current version), and that's what the patch originally was meant for. I've just talked this over this with one of the maintainers though, and there are probably better ways than handling this at the file permission level, like passing open file descriptors between processes. So unless somebody comes up with a convincing application, that patch probably should stay out. Cheers, -- Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX GMBH - 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/
