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Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, a
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Neal H. Walfield |
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Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons |
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Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:48:06 +0100 |
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At Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:36:47 -0500,
Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 18:33 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> > So let's separate the issues. There are two issues:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 2) Should the algorithm be run in its own address space or not?
>
> (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.
... and likely should not have. Yet, if the yield is running our of
client provided transparent storage, the client effectively has access
to the database. So, don't you want these types of services to run as
daemons?
- Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, (continued)
- Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/01/12
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/14
- 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
- constructor daemon vs. constructor library, Neal H. Walfield, 2007/01/15
- 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 <=
- 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, 2007/01/15
- 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