Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:46:32 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: caps in elf, next itteration (the hack get's bigger) |
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Hi,
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:15:45 +0100 (BST), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) said:
>> I thought the VMS security features posted here looked useful. >> VMS also has file record and transaction support.
> This is seen as a bug by most OS designers.
Not at all. First of all, it is kept outside the kernel: it is more like a library than anything else (although it _does_ run at a higher privilege level than user code). Secondly, in a clustered environment with shared-disk filesystems, having no OS-facility for reliably accessing shared data would be a critical omission.
--Stephen
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