[cap-talk] Polaris: Virus Safe Computing for Windows XP

[Karp, Alan H]

David Hopwood wrote:
> 
> Does the update process not synchronize the file on each fclose or
> fsync (or Windows equivalents)? That's what I'd do, since that way it
> satisfies the usual POSIX/Standard C semantics.
> 
That's exactly what we do.
> 
>    "By using this approach Polaris does not leave any 
> dangling permissions
>     to be cleaned up later."
> 
Better said and changed in the paper.
 
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