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Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, a


From: Pierre THIERRY
Subject: Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:18:33 +0100
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Scribit Neal H. Walfield dies 15/01/2007 hora 18:48:
> > 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?

Wouldn't it be more vulnerable to DoS than confined processes
instanciated on opaque storage provided by the client?

Curiously,
Pierre
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