Jason R. Thorpe  wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:51:47 +0200 
>  Aleksi Suhonen <ams@lenkkari.cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  > Here's another idea: Access Control Lists (acls)
>  > as implemented in HP-UX. Would there be any legal
>  > issues to consider about?
> 
> IMHO, HP-UX acls are yucky and evil.  Almost as bad as HP-UX context 
> dependant files.

Try to learn from VMS (DEC). There you can see how to implement ACLs!

And what's about real broadcast messages ? I hate it if any silly
program like "write", "comsat", "talk" etc. writes into my tty device,
especially when I am using a text editor.

[ I'm still dreaming of VMS/i386 or an Alpha box at home. :-( ]

> 
> As far as legal issues, I'd imagine that as long as any implementation is 
> free of encumbered code, it'd be kosher, but I *really* hope that 
> something like the file acls or cdfs never make it into the tree...
> 
> *shudder*

Let's see what you have eaten at last lunch: "VUE"  :-)))

> 
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Henry