[cap-talk] Another "core" principle - virtualize capabilities

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 22:11 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> I tentatively suggest that the extra cost on top of this if
> membrane-like functionality is required is a constant overhead per
> delegation, that can be attributed to the receiver of the delegation
> in the same manner as the other costs for the delegation.  Do you
> still disagree?

Yes, because we have been talking about the problem of capability
replacement and membrane "unwrapping", both of which seem to require
higher level information. It *may* be possible to accomplish this within
the L4-style approach, but I haven't thought about it enough to have
confidence that this is true.
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