Split Capabilities: Making Capabilities Scale

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap@eros-os.org
Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:50:26 -0400


> Unfortunately, that leaves no option but to have at least one capability
per
> object, i.e., no wildcards.  That may not be a problem for capability OSes
> like EROS, but I believe it is when capabilities are cryptographically
> secure certificates.

Since the E programming language and environment appear to be a
counterexample, I'ld encourage stress-testing this belief.