[cap-talk] Re: New paper: The Structure of Authority

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap at eros-os.org
Fri Nov 12 13:47:57 EST 2004


Good catch, but please change

	"does at least provide"

to

	"provides (at least)"

or some such.

I'm finding that the word 'does' is awkward in that sentence.


shap

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 13:18, Mark Miller wrote:
> Mark Miller wrote:
> > Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > 
> >> Do I understand correctly that you already have my input on this?
> >> 
> >> You and I actually wordsmithed this section pretty carefully, so if there
> >> are further changes I definitely want to review them.
> > 
> > 
> > Modulo possible typos and such, I believe the text in that section (the 
> > last four paragraphs of 3.2) is identical to the edited version you last 
> > sent back to me. Of course, you should double check.
> > 
> 
> 
> I spoke too early. I just spotted a change:
> 
> I changed
> 
> > So let us assume that the base OS does provide effective per-account
> > protection.
> 
> to
> 
> > So let us assume that the base OS does at least provide effective per-account
> > protection.
> 
> as I wanted to be clear that we weren't assuming stronger protection, but 
> neither were we assuming a lack of stronger protection. Ok?



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