[cap-talk] Need help with the confused deputy problem and Object-capability model

Mark Miller erights at gmail.com
Wed May 21 18:03:24 CDT 2008


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Toby Murray
<toby.murray at comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> No, I disagree. We're in the object-capability model here, not a
> capability-based OS.

We are in agreement on all substantive issues. And your use of
terminology does correctly correspond to ocap terminology, while mine
does not. However, since the issue is one of clearing up a possible
confusion, I wanted to ensure that the explanation was not delicately
and non-obviously resting on a terminological fine-point.

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 Cheers,
 --MarkM


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