Re: capability interface for idl4

[Bas Wijnen]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 02:40:13PM +0200, Ludovic Court?s wrote:
> Hi Neal,
> 
> "Neal H. Walfield" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > This is one of the reasons why the kernel needs to provide some form
> > of support for capabilities.
> 
> That's an opportunity to resurrect an old thread...  ;-)
> 
> What do you think of Amoeba's relatively simple approach?
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2005-08/msg00014.html

I think anything protected by sparsity is fundamentally flawed and
unacceptable, especially for something as critical as the kernel.

Of course I'm not the one whose acceptance it needs, though. ;-)

Thanks,
Bas

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