Re: Capabilities

Casey Schaufler (casey@sgi.com)
Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:27:40 -0800


Jamie Lokier wrote:

> If you're going to make a super-extensible general purpose system, maybe
> a set of extendable named capabilities, rather like gid sets but with
> the inheritance properties of POSIX capabilities, would do the trick?

I argue that such a scheme is better suited to a role mechanism
than to capabilities. Perhaps you and Albert could put your
considerable energys into building one!

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