Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:10:26 -0500,
Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 18:48 +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> > > (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?
> 
> Absolutely not. I want to be able to safely polyinstantiate them, which
> is why I need client-provided storage to be opaque.

But we are not talking about Coyotos; this thread is about HurdNG and
you contended that HurdNG should retain constructors.  As such, you
must argue within that framework.