i remember someone said something like "it's 2014 [yeah, 2014!!] and our operating system kernel still uses an octal number for file permissions" and i'm thinking, like, yeah? that's pretty efficient. what else should it use?

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i remember someone said something like "it's 2014 [yeah, 2014!!] and our operating system kernel still uses an octal number for file permissions" and i'm thinking, like, yeah? that's pretty efficient. what else should it use?
actual ACLs would be pretty nice, though i’m not sure they’re worth the cost — there’s a reason the windows filesystem is so slow and it’s all the wacky features they built into it