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"Over designed, underused and added to NFSv4" - Windows ACLs
Win32 ACLs are (IMHO) a mess.
- Beautifully designed from a computing science point of view, they are so complex to use that almost NO Windows administrator understands them.
- So few Win32 programmers understand them that in practice most applications also ignore ACLs.
- Order dependent, moving the entries within an ACL can completely change the access decisions granted by that ACL.
- Win32 ACLs (like most things in Win32) are a moving target. Many changes were introduced in Windows 2000.