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Re: cap exchange race with map/unmap


From: Neal H. Walfield
Subject: Re: cap exchange race with map/unmap
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:26:22 +0100
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At Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:02:21 +0200,
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> However, just for completeness, there is another way to avoid the
> problem, and that is to never copy the capability in the first place.
> Instead, you just make revocable copies all along the way of the
> operation you intend to perform, as arguments to RPCs to trusted
> objects.  This is also problematic, however (performance, breaking
> abstraction).

Good point.

Thanks,
Neal




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