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Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, a
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
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Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons |
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Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:12:05 -0500 |
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 19:27 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > > 1) Should a linking (interpreter selection etc) algorithm be provided
> > > along with the program files or should it exist in the ambient
> > > space of the operating system?
> >
> > (1) is infeasible in a system where the instantiating party does not
> > have access to the capabilities that the program will require. One
> > purpose of the constructor mechanism is to allow (e.g.) an instantiated
> > password agent to have access to the password database when I do not.
>
> As I was discussing my system structure proposal (or in other words,
> the Hurd, not Coyotos), this objection doesn't apply.
I think it does, but only in the sense that a good system structuring
proposal should clearly identify the strengths and weaknesses of the
policies it selects.
This applies to my proposal too, of course.
--
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Managing Director
The EROS Group, LLC
+1 443 927 1719 x5100
- Re: constructor daemon vs. constructor library, (continued)
- Re: constructor daemon vs. constructor library, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Neal H. Walfield, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Neal H. Walfield, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Neal H. Walfield, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons,
Jonathan S. Shapiro <=
- Capability simulation, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/11
- Handing off... (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons), olafBuddenhagen, 2007/01/12
- Layering in EROS/Coyotos, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/11
- Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/11
- kernel (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons), olafBuddenhagen, 2007/01/11
Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Anton Tagunov, 2007/01/10