[cap-talk] Google's Native Client (NaCl)

[Dominique Quatravaux]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Mark Seaborn <mrs at mythic-beasts.com> wrote:
>>   NaCl resource descriptors are analogous to capabilities in systems
>>   such as EROS.
>
> They are actually closer to Unix sockets than to EROS capabilities.

They did not go for a shared mutable filesystem though.  Also, going
the extra mile to support eg file descriptor transfer across sockets
on all target platforms (including Windows) seems indicative of a
designer who "gets it" (re the Granovetter diagram).

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