[cap-talk] Moving running applications (was: Kernels at Microsoft)

[Jed Donnelley]

At 03:39 PM 11/26/2007, Bill Frantz wrote:
>jed at nersc.gov (Jed Donnelley) on Monday, November 26, 2007 wrote:
> >
> >...
> >
> >To move a running application I assume that whatever is
> >moving the application has access to all it's state -
> >it's memory, registers, and it's c-list.
>
>We always assumed that KeyKOS applications were made up of mutually
>suspicious components.  There might not be a place to stand to get to
>all the state of the application.

If you don't have access to the above then I believe you
can't move a running application.  A place where you
are likely to have the above is with a user "shell"
that initializes processes on behalf of a user.
Such a 'shell' should have the authority necessary
to move a running application - even in KeyKos
I believe (no excuses ;-).

--Jed  http://www.webstart.com/jed/