Re: Capabilities in fs vs. exe

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 08:23:40 -0400

Evan Jeffrey <hobbes@utrek.ml.org> said:
> Given that I don't know much about capabilites systems, feel free to flame
> me if this is stupid, but it sounds like this would work:

To flame somebody shouldn't be an option, period.

> Put capability sets in both ELF headers and, optionally in FS metadata.

That is fragile, as it distributes very important information that has to
be kept in sync over independent (and quite differently handled) parts of
the system.

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