Re: Linux-privs
Andrej Presern (andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:23:58 +0200
Chris Evans wrote:
>
> On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Stephan K. Zitz wrote:
>
> > I'm curious … Why was Trusted Solaris chosen as the implementation to
> > "[get]…fairly close to…"?
>
> It wasn't AFAIK, the model chosen was POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX.6). This
> just happens to be what Slowaris is based on ;-)
>
> Last I heard though POSIX.1e wasn't standard, only a draft, and they were
> thinking of giving up on it.
I'm not surprised. POSIX capabilities don't really do what they were
supposed to (as a matter of fact, they are not even a true capability
model at all).
Andrej
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Andrej Presern, andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si
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