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Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, a
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons |
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Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:27:53 +0100 |
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At Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:36:47 -0500,
"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <address@hidden> 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.
As I was discussing my system structure proposal (or in other words,
the Hurd, not Coyotos), this objection doesn't apply.
Thanks,
Marcus
- constructor daemon vs. constructor library, (continued)
- 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 <=
- 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
- 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