On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:17:48PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > But what corresponds to the Unix group concept? I have identified two > semantic uses for a "group": > > 1) Sharing information and authorization. Ie, allow communication > among users of the same group. > > 2) Provide durable storage that is not associated with any particular > member of the group.
3) Hindrance of the above. #v+ $ groups users foo $ ls -l /tmp/not-for-fooers -rw----rw- 1 thomas foo 0 Mar 19 23:45 /tmp/not-for-fooers $ cat /tmp/not-for-fooers cat: /tmp/not-for-fooers: Permission denied #v- (Obviously, this works only as long as you're not allowed to drop group memberships.) I don't know if there's a real-world example of this facility being used, though. Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
