From: Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>
To: "Stephan Han." <xenonelive@gmail.com>, tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Who's behind the UNIX filesystem permission implementation
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:00:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e28d95ae-5696-7479-d967-1b754aaa56b0@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJV3Z_-JVU2Nn1nhrXOKHWQOni3ZWhRsPiAn_mQ7oH5hMnWumA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2019-07-31 5:59 a.m., Stephan Han. wrote:
> Hello Unix enthusiasts.
>
> I'd like to know who or the group of people behind implementing this
> filesystem permission system.
> Since we are using this system for nearly 40 years and it addresses all
> the aspects of the permission matter without any hustle.
It may not address "all aspects" since it has been necessary for some
purposes to extend the permission model substantially over time, such as
ACLs, SELinux, etc.
--Toby
> I'm inspired to know who/how came up with this theory?
> Also if it derived from somewhere else or If there's an origin story
> about this, it would be worth to share.
>
> Cheers.
> Stephan
>
> --
> No When
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-31 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-31 9:59 Stephan Han.
2019-07-31 16:49 ` Rodrigo G. López
2019-07-31 17:29 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-07-31 17:58 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-31 18:03 ` Christopher Browne
2019-07-31 20:16 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-07-31 17:00 ` Toby Thain [this message]
2019-07-31 17:18 ` Warner Losh
2019-07-31 22:24 ` William Corcoran
2019-07-31 22:49 ` George Michaelson
2019-07-31 18:46 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-31 19:01 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-31 19:34 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
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