[openbeos] Re: status of OpenBeOS

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 04:21:14 +0200 CEST

François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> En réponse à Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > I'd go for adding a permissions byte to ports, areas and sems...
> > > just good old Unix semantics, with a umask-like variable
> > > to set default behaviour.
> > > (a correctly implemented umask... R5 implements it in libroot 
> > > currently,
> > > so fork doesn't inherit it :^)
> > Nice, didn't know that :-))
> > I hope you can live without this feature for OpenBeOS ;-)
> Hey, how can you pretend to be multiuser and not deal with that ? :P

Hm, BTW shouldn't fork also clone the address space copy-on-write? 
Shouldn't then a userland implementation of umask still work?? Am I 
missing something?

Adios...
   Axel.


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