Capbility Concepts

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

> Are you sure? I don't have the S/38 papers handy (working from home
> today) but I seem to remember that it was actually possible for
> unprivileged code to copy a cap, but the hardware would turn of the
> capability bit then, converting it to simple data.
>
> Gernot

I believe this is so also. I have the AS/400 Principles of Operations, but
regrettably my copy is in a box somewhere. If someone can remind me in two
weeks about this I'll gladly check on it.


shap