Re: Part 2: System Structure

[Tom Bachmann]

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Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Scribit Tom Bachmann dies 15/05/2006 hora 20:15:
>>>> Jonathan wants it, _every_ subprocess receives such an opaque
>>>> donation of its storage.
>>> Were did you read that. That's not how I understood it.
>> This is the property Jonathan calls encapsulation (and that is default
>> in his design, IIUC).
> 
> I'm not entirely sure that every use of the constructor needs
> encapsulation.

It does not.

"It would be easy and harmless to add a bit that would permit
 initial inspection, but I will describe important use cases
 (later) that are impossible if inspection is mandatory."
             -- Jonathan
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2006-05/msg00056.html)

Instead, all of the functions of the constructor shown in the mail can
be taken for themselves, but some 'features' you can only get with
multiple of these functions.
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