[cap-talk] More Heresey: ACLs not inherently bad

[Mark Miller]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Charles Landau <clandau at macslab.com> wrote:

>
> This isn't Horton, because the "new process" is free to delegate its
> capability without any involvement of the directory-like object.
>

That's true in Horton as well:

> Nothing forces Alice to share her rights in this indirect way;
> Alice's P1 *could* just give Bob direct access to S2. But then
> Carol would *necessarily* blame Alice for Bob's use of S2,
> which Alice might not like.

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Cheers,
--MarkM
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