[cap-talk] "Same" key

Mark S. Miller markm at cs.jhu.edu
Sat Feb 3 15:47:52 CST 2007


Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> The problem in this conversation is that we are failing to distinguish
> correctly between the capability itself and the object that it
> designates. The EQ relationship is a relationship on capabilities, not
> objects. In real implementations, two distinct capabilities (i.e.
> capabilities that are not EQ) may designate the same object because of
> the way the object server is implemented.

Can you give an example where two not-EQ caps designate the same object?

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