[cap-talk] Caps-as-data in Native Client

[Norman Hardy]

On 2010 May 27, at 12:03 , Mark Seaborn wrote:

> Native Client currently exposes a caps-as-data interface in the form
> of "socket addresses".  I'd like to get some feedback about whether
> this is a good thing or not.  It was originally introduced for
> implementation-specific reasons, and may need to be removed for
> implementation-specific reasons.  It might be useful in its own right,
> but it might also be dangerous.

I have not studied your e-mail closely but this note:
http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/CapBits.html
discusses pros and cons of capabilities as bits.