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

[Bob Proulx]

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

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

Bob