[cap-talk] Stack walking is capability access control?

Geoffrey Alan Washburn geoffw at cis.upenn.edu
Tue May 15 20:52:58 EDT 2007


David Wagner wrote:

> It may well be true that every Java program can be translated into
> one that is written in capability style, but that doesn't make Java
> a capability system. 	

	I never claimed it was equivalent to a capability system.  I only was 
claiming that it can be treated as an instance of a capability system. 
The text in my proposal, as quoted by Sandro, does unfortunately not 
clearly articulate this distinction.




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