Re: File system enhancement handled above the file system level.

2000-12-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
Linda Walsh wrote: In that context do you know of any code that solves this problem I could nab or is Plan 10 the most expedient (doing the ENV var substitution). Clearly some earthlings need enlightenment regarding the origin of the name Plan 9:

Re: File system enhancement handled above the file system level.

2000-12-01 Thread Casey Schaufler
"Amit S. Kale" wrote: trfs is kernel only. Translators are also kernel only, although they can take help from user programs if required. That's a plus. General, too. In above case $UID translation will be done completely inside a kernel. The overhead involved in using trfs is following

Re: File system enhancement handled above the file system level.

2000-12-01 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Linda Walsh writes: using that because I thought it might be a simplified model. Actually we'd be using a security label in the process task structure. The format of that security label is a 'binary', non-human readable label. It can be formatted into an ascii representation, but the