On Sep 6, 2005, at 4:48 AM, Pavel Cahyna wrote:

> On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:10:43 -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
>> No, it does not.  I would strongly DISCOURAGE adopting the ACL model
>> used by FreeBSD.  The ACL model used in Mac OS X 10.4 is MUCH better.
>
> Why do you consider it better? It has more features, sure, but to  
> me, it
> seems to be too complicated to be practical.

Finer-grained control.  Also, the way it is implemented (the  
infrastructure in the kernel / VFS layer for evaluating permissions)  
is much nicer than the traditional BSD way.

> BTW I think you misspelled it - you wrote "Mac OS X", while you should
> have written "NT" :-)

NT doesn't have an implementation we can draw useful ideas from :-)

-- thorpej