Re: FW: Description of the new 'ntsec' feature

[Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>]

Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> writes:
> > Did you check how POSIX security is emulated in the Interix subsystem
> > against NT's security?

Interix is "special" since it uses its own subsystem, and has the added
advantage of running on NT only. I don't believe looking at Interix is
that productive. A more comparable implementation in this regard is AT&T 
UWIN, and it does go to some length to handle permission and so on (via 
two services on NT, and somewhat braindead on Win9x).

> No. It's a "clean room implementation". I don't want to look how it's
> solved in other systems but I want to hear discussions and opinions
> how to do our own implementation.

That's the best way, especially when it comes implementing proprietary
interfaces as well as emulating proprietary implementations.

Regards,
Mumit


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