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

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 23:13 -0700, Jed Donnelley wrote:
> We have examples of systems that meet Jonathan's requirement
> of a large shared directory (naming) structure where different
> users can have different access to different objects.  Unix
> does this, Windows and VMS do this, essentially with ACLs.

Such systems certainly exist, but that was not my requirement. My
challenge problem simply required an object graph (it did not assume
hierarchy) and had absolutely nothing to do with name bindings. It
wasn't a directory problem, though that might be a sub-case.

shap