[cap-talk] More Heresey: ACLs not inherently bad

Toby Murray toby.murray at comlab.ox.ac.uk
Wed Sep 17 05:52:50 CDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 05:07 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> 2. I still haven't heard a credible answer to the sharing problem that
> doesn't reconstruct ACLs.

I'm having trouble trying to work out in what real-world cases this
problem would arise. Secondly, I also wonder why something like Plash
wouldn't suit your needs, given that it maintains the POSIX interface
whilst allowing fine-grained POLA.

Toby


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