[openbeos] Re: Singleuser vs Multiuser
- From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:59:57 EST
> I seriously doubt that we will ever see #2. And I am not sure
> that it is a great model, anymore. Machines are cheap. UNIX
> was built the way that it was because machines were expensive
> and had to be shared.
Alternatively an access-control-list (ACL) method like Windows NT
uses could be implemented. That's one of the driving forces
behind adding attributes to some Linux file systems.
> In order to build #2, you would have to remove or, at least,
> radically alter some of the functionality of the OS. areas
> could not be mapped at will. There are some large security
> holes in BeOS as far as multiple users at the same time.
Yes, a big job. Need to assign ownership to all sorts of things.
- Alex
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