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Re:WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux... by jussij on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:27PM (#15180744)
And those Windows ACLs form the foundation for higher level Windows security features like Active Directory, which itself is used as a foundation for many other aspects of Windows, so those ACLs are well and truly baked into the OS.
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Re:WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux... by pjmlp on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:05AM (#15181364)
Actually it goes a bit further than that.

Every object in the OS that can be represented by an OS handle, has security permission attached to it.

Files, registry, sockets, drivers,.....

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