[cap-talk] C-like Capability language

[Baldur Johannsson]

Þann 11. ágúst 2008 ritaði David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:58 PM, William Pearson <wil.pearson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I want
>> to do capability based security in a VM designed for real-time systems
>> which uses an agoric system to allocate system resources.
>
Hmm.. I cant find this word ,,agoric" anywhere but
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Words/a.html
(Agoric system). Are the voluntary transactions central? I am
profoundly confused.
>
> Instead of creating a new language, how about replacing the scheduler
> of an existing kernel with an agoric scheduler?  The scheduling
> algorithm becomes the judge.  A process could have some code
> associated with it -- its "advocate" -- that argues why this process
> should get the resources, or negotiates for price.  Low priority
> processes would have low budgets and would wait until after 11 pm to
> schedule their resource use.
>
But where is that "advocate" code run? As an proccess?
Then where does that proccess "advocate" code run?
and so on ad infinitum :-)