[cap-talk] Re: "capabilities" as data vs. as descriptors - OS security discussion, restricted access processes, etc.

[Jonathan M. Smith]

See for example the Cambridge Nemesis O.S.
-JMS

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 10:44, Ben Laurie wrote:
> > > Actually, QoS *does* reduce covert bandwidth, precisely because it
> > > reduces variance.
> >
> > Eh? It reduces variance introduced by the transport. It has no impact on
> > variance introduced by the sender, surely?
>
> Almost all of the *real* QoS solutions manage *all* of the application
> resources. If you are talking strictly about network QoS then what you
> say is true, but if you are talking about generalized QoS within an
> operating system then you commonly find that a small number of
> guarantees has the effect of regularizing (e.g.) all other scheduling
> decisions.
>
> shap
>
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