Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems

2008-12-09 Thread Mark Overmeer
* Aristotle Pagaltzis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [081210 00:06]: > * Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-12-08 21:20]: > > A pitty that we do not focus on the general concept of OS > > abstraction (knowing that some problems are only partially > > solvable (on the moment)). > > Well go on. Explain ho

Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems

2008-12-09 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Dec 9, at 21:11, Charles Bailey wrote: It may well be that a fine-grained interface isn't practical, but perhaps there are some basics that we could implement, such as - set owner of this thing - (maybe) set group of this thing Group is problematic; I don't recall Windows having group

Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems

2008-12-09 Thread Charles Bailey
It may well be that a fine-grained interface isn't practical, but perhaps there are some basics that we could implement, such as - set owner of this thing - (maybe) set group of this thing - give owner|everyone|?some-group the ability to read from|write to|remove|run this thing - tell me whether a

Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems

2008-12-09 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Dec 9, at 19:56, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-12-10 01:10]: Well go on. Btw, I just realised that it can be read as sarcastic, which I didn’t intend. I am honestly curious, even if skeptical. I am biased, but I am open to be convinced. B

Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems

2008-12-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-12-10 01:10]: > Well go on. Btw, I just realised that it can be read as sarcastic, which I didn’t intend. I am honestly curious, even if skeptical. I am biased, but I am open to be convinced. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //

Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems

2008-12-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-12-08 21:20]: > A pitty that we do not focus on the general concept of OS > abstraction (knowing that some problems are only partially > solvable (on the moment)). Well go on. Explain how you would, f.ex., provide an abstract API over file ownership and ac