[cap-talk] Reducing Ambient user authority in a Type Safe /Memory Safe OS.

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

Ben Kloosterman wrote:
> Hi Rob , 
> 
> Actually I have become more interested in non Mutable objects with F#(Caml)
> and use non mutable for Asynch IPC between processes ( it solves a lot of GC
> related issues) . Completely agree regarding temp and each app should have
> its own temp dir that gets cleared ( I did run into a Windows Terminal
> Server issue where users were reading each other's files in temp a long time
> ago. ). One issue with tmp is System admins often use different disk sets
> for this for performance reasons so  tmp/appid prob makes more sense than
> under the app dir.

There seems to be an implicit assumption here that files need to be linked
into a namespace. They don't; just create an anonymous file (if you need
temporary objects to be files at all).

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood  ⚥  http://davidsarah.livejournal.com

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