Re: [bug-gawk] gawk - 'inplace' feature ignores file's access flags (read-only)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:13:51 -0600
> From: Bob Proulx <address@hidden>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I actually find systems that concur with people's misconception to be
> > friendlier than those which insist on what's Right and Wrong.  It is
> > better to go with user's intuition than against it.
> 
> I haven't made any statements about Right and Wrong.  Nor about Good
> or Evil! :-)

I didn't mean you.

> I am simply saying that isn't how it has been implemented for the
> last 40 years.

On one particular platform.

> There have been attempts to produce different permission models.  Look
> at AFS (and DFS?) for example.  The permission structure is completely
> different.  Everything is based upon access control lists.  Write and
> Delete permissions are individually controllable.  I think that
> permissions structure is more intuitive.

NTFS, the Windows filesystem, has these as well.

> But AFS is not very commonly seen on most people's systems.

NTFS is.