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Re: who pages the pager?
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
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Re: who pages the pager? |
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Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:10:44 -0400 |
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 17:32 +0200, Simon Nieuviarts wrote:
> And what if the pager does not answer ? I think the pager can only give hints
> to an external paging task that takes the real decisions. The pager can not
> be considered as reliable.
You mean: it should not be an architectural requirement that all pagers
are trusted?
Correct. And this is one of the fundamental problems with strongly
hierarchical designs. They dictate system structures that only work
under the assumption of strongly hierarchical trust.
shap