the power of being root

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:17:47AM -0400, tread wrote:
>Bell Labs Plan 9, however, approaches this differently. Noone can see
>another persons files.

AFAIK you can create execution environments with different view on the
world. Since everything in Plan 9 is a file this means each application
gets a different view on the file system. I bet there is access control
as well though...

There is a similar thing available for Linux, per-process namespaces was
added durig 2.5 development (and backported to 2.4 I think).

/M

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