Re: Darwin darwin or darwin6.0
We are getting somewhere here. I think I have to add code to support MacPerl and perl running under Windoze or DOS. Perhaps Parrot/Perl6 will fix it all up. Using MPW on MacOS 9.1 perl -v This is perl, version 5.004 perl -e 'print `uname`;' ### ToolServer - Command uname was not found. (Not surprising.) perl -e 'print $^O;' MacOS Over on the MacPerl list the suggestion is to use Gestalt but I'll bet one can't do that until after the OS is determined somehow. I donno about uname on a M$ box but $^O returns: MSWin32 or dos depending on how the perl script is executed, booting into real DOS or emulated DOS under Windoze. Note the non-use of lowercase in both MacPerl and Windoze versions. I'm pretty sure it's Active Perl but I really don't know what's in use at the other end. At 13:45 -0500 11/16/02, William H. Magill wrote: opsys=`uname -a | cut -d -f1` print opsys = $opsys case $opsys in OSF1) ?? DPM Is that for Open Software Foundation - Linux? SunOS) ?? DPM My ISP returns solaris for $^O in perl 5.00x but SunOS using uname. HP-UX) AIX) Darwin|darwin) esac -- -- In Christianity, man can have only one wife. This is known as monotony. --
Re: hard links on HFS+
Please understand this is no flame... but I got two words for you: Goo Gle Look it up. On Saturday, Nov 16, 2002, at 23:17 America/New_York, Joseph Kruskal wrote: On 11/1/02 3:47 AM, William H. Magill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... journaled file system ... What is a journaled file system? ... the user level -- REAL ACLs being one of particular interest ... What are ACLs? What are REAL ACLs? ... especially for C2 type enterprise applications... What are C2 type enterprise applications? Thanks, Joe -- Joseph B Kruskal [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lou Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ellem.dyn.dhs.org:5281/resume/
Re: hard links on HFS+
I suppose that is better than one word. RTFM ;-) http://danconia.org Lou Moran wrote: Please understand this is no flame... but I got two words for you: Goo Gle Look it up. On Saturday, Nov 16, 2002, at 23:17 America/New_York, Joseph Kruskal wrote: On 11/1/02 3:47 AM, William H. Magill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... journaled file system ... What is a journaled file system? ... the user level -- REAL ACLs being one of particular interest ... What are ACLs? What are REAL ACLs? ... especially for C2 type enterprise applications... What are C2 type enterprise applications? Thanks, Joe -- Joseph B Kruskal [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lou Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ellem.dyn.dhs.org:5281/resume/
Re: hard links on HFS+
On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 11:17 PM, Joseph Kruskal wrote: On 11/1/02 3:47 AM, William H. Magill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... journaled file system ... What is a journaled file system? In a brief word -- a mechanism whereby updates to the file system are kept in a journal file and then available for replay following a crash situation. It is a dramatically faster rebuild, and more robust than FSCK. Especially on large (over about 2-4 gig) disk drives. All commercial Unix systems today have a journaled file system either as default or as an available/optional add-on. Commercial distributions of Linux are rapidly moving in the same direction. (Several different add-on kits have been around for quite a while now.) See the two Apple's Knowledge base articles for more info on Apple's version. ... the user level -- REAL ACLs being one of particular interest ... What are ACLs? Acecss Control Lists. These are property strings which tell/control many things about a given file. What are REAL ACLs? Apple uses the BSD ACL (called file flags) to provide locked file controls. However, most BSD unix tools have no knowledge of these -- ls for example -- so you need to use a different tool to read and change them. However, there are only 4 or 5 properties which can be controlled. Under BSD, ACLs are almost completely undocumented (man chflags). Real ACLs on the other hand are quite extensive -- see Digital's VMS for one set. For example one can identify random individuals as authorized to read a file, and a completely different set of individuals to write it. Real ACLs have no link to the standard Unix UGO permission scheme except as defaults. ... especially for C2 type enterprise applications... What are C2 type enterprise applications? C2 is an Orange Book Security designation. There is a Federal government certification process to rate an OS at a particular security level. (C2 is the lowest level considered secure.) Such certification is necessary for certain government contracts. The technology, however, is useful for anyone, particularly anyone whose computing activities support the enterprise. That is to say -- where the corporate data resides. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
