[cap-talk] kernel object knowledge

[Karp, Alan H]

Jed wrote:

A lot of stuff I agree with.  

The NLTSS kernel handled things much the way the Client Utility core
did; both forwarded requests to the resource handler, but neither
interpreted those requests.  Client Utility even moved some of the
handlers into the core address space for performance reasons while
keeping them logically distinct, just as in NLTSS.
> 
> When you say the kernel doesn't need to understand the
> semantics of capabilities - that was certainly true in
> NLTSS.  However, in capability as descriptor systems
> I believe the kernel does need to understand and indeed
> manage the format of capabilities - at least to the
> extent of interpreting the "invoke" and "reply"
> mechanisms and storing the capabilities in c-lists.
> Are we on the same page there?
> 
Absolutely. 

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