And in the amdahl "CMS Internals" class we wrote a Nucleus Extension to
see the MODE 0 files as an exercise.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 7:00 PM
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And they were private only because of ignorance or lack of desire on the
part of those who could link to the disk. Before there was ACCESSM0
there was DDR, so the only reasonable guarantee of privacy was to not
let anyone link to the disk. Even then, there were those who had
LNKNOPASS capabilities, so that was not a total guarantee.

Regards, 
Richard Schuh 


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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Y-disk housekeeping using SFS.

On Thursday, 06/14/2007 at 02:36 EST, Mike Walter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> b) Why is it that filemode 0 (zero) files appear in a read-only SFS
filespace? 
>  OK, the "ACCESS" doc does not mention MODE0 for anything but MDISKs.
 But why 
> would it even be designed to show filemode 0 in read-only mode?

With SFS, we actually had a shared *file* system, with file-level ACLs. 
Why give the *impression* of security, when we could provide the real 
thing?  It also brought the mode 0 "Security Illusion" out into the 
actinic glare of reality.  I remember a surprising number of people were

unaware that their mode 0 files weren't secure, just private.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
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