Michael Rothwell writes: > 1) Convenient remote terminal use. > > Telnet, ssh, X windows, rsh, vnc, "screen," ethernet, > serial, etc. I think we have this one. Nope: /dev/audio, /dev/cdrom, /dev/floppy, fonts, etc. Also one would want a local window manager for performance, but this tends to interfere with starting apps on the other system. > 4) A high reliability internal file system. Now we want it distributed, with version control, with mirroring onto N of M machines and migration toward usage... > 5) Support for selective information sharing. > > Linux has a rather poor security model -- the Unix one. > It needs ACLs no only on filesystem objects, but on other > OS features as well; such as the ability to use network > interfaces, packet types, display ACLs, console ACLs, etc. It would have been nice to have just put 2 entries right in the inode years ago. With the KISS method, we'd be using ACLs right now. Even just a list of UIDs that would share permission bits with the file's GID would be very useful. I just want to share a file with one other person! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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