Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!acorn!ixi!ixi!pd From: pd@x.co.uk (Paul Davey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: ACL lists (was Re: file attributes) Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 10:40:50 GMT References: <31710@hydra.gatech.EDU> <49110001@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> <598@daily-planet.concordia.ca> Sender: paul@x.co.uk (Paul Davey) Organization: IXI Ltd. Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: goldfish@concour.cs.concordia.ca's message of 27 Jun 91 17: 19:49 GMT >>>>> On 27 Jun 91 17:19:49 GMT, goldfish@concour.cs.concordia.ca (Paul Goldsmith) said: -> Are you sure that you are talking about a HP product? Last time I -> looked, ACL were part of the APOLLO operating system that HP has been -> killing for the last two years. 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) HP-UX has a different implementation of ACLs to DomainOS. As I said in a previous posting the ACLs in DomainOS are IHMO superior to those in HP-UX. Of course Apollo Domain is an HP product now anyway... Anybody know what OSF/1 has in it? Different again? -- Regards, pd@x.co.uk IXI Limited Paul Davey pd@ixi.uucp 62-74 Burleigh St. ...!uunet!ixi!pd Cambridge U.K. "These are interesting times" +44 223 462 131 CB1 1OJ USA: 1 800 XDESK 57