[haiku-development] Re: BFS drivers for other systems?

On 2011-02-21 at 20:04:10 [+0100], Yourself <smc.collins@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> > Well, we'll have to change a few things when we go multi-user (mainly 
> > moving
> > settings out of the attributes), but the more interesting stuff will 
> > remain
> > the same, I suppose.
> >   
>    It begs to ask the question why you would want to ruin the elegance
> of the OS to add a layer of security that does nothing to actually offer
> any security ?

Who is talking about security? The discussion is about moving settings-like 
attributes to the per-user settings areas to avoid undesired effects when 
multiple users use the same files.

>   what can't be fixed with file permissions and passwords ?

You apparently missed several years of development in this area. But again, 
this doesn't have anything to do with the discussion.

CU, Ingo

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