Re: Capabilities

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2000 - 20:05:26 EST


"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> said:

[...]

> But if we want to support the full capability model, then we
> can't take shortcuts like that. As I said earlier, it's very different
> from the Unix model, and I'm not so convinced that sysadmins will be
> able to deal with it correctly. If we're going to try to do
> capabilities, however, we might as well try to do them right.

True, capabilities means rethinking/relearning a lot. If capabilities
become widesperad, this will happen. Not fast, but it will.

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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