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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ACL lists (was Re: file attributes)
Message-ID: <19426@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 28 Jun 91 13:30:07 GMT
References: <31710@hydra.gatech.EDU> <49110001@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> <598@daily-planet.concordia.ca>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Organization: Cheeseburger in Paradise, Le Select, St Barts., FWI
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In article <598@daily-planet.concordia.ca> goldfish@concour.cs.concordia.ca (Paul Goldsmith) writes:
>                                 I would be surprised that HP was
>supporting a non-mainstream (non-POSIX) feature, and based on their
>treatment of Apollo DOMAIN-OS, they wouldn't know what to do with a
>good idea if it fell in their laps (which it did, and they didn't)

There are POSIX ACLs.  Please refer to 1003.6 for more details.

I'm not saying that HP-UX or DOMAIN-OS uses POSIX ACLs, but there
is an emerging standard that will one day give us ACLs ...
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