Re: Design goals

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Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Hi,

> [...]

> stability
> robustness
> resource accountability
> confinement
> support for most legacy applications
> persistent sessions for users

maybye one or two sections lower

> --------- Anything above this line is essential --------------
> confinement with endogenous verification

maybye in the section above

> soft real time

dito (we need it for stuff like video output [jonathan mentioned thsis, 
if I remember correctly])

> setting diverse resource distribution policies
> persistence

this should be one section below, IMHO. We never wanted persistence till 
it turned out to be useful.

> no ACLs

this should be one section above (we don't want a security model nown 
not to work)

> --------- Anything below this line is optional ---------------
> small memory footprint
> support for all POSIX applications
> hard real time

this should be dropped, IMHO. Of course we can put everything into this 
section, but hard realtime is nothing achievable on the fly. All the 
design has to support it.

> [...]

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