[E-Lang] what is good about E?

[Marc Stiegler]

Alas! Alack! A problem even total capability systems cannot solve :-)

I knew I had to find one of these some day :-)

--marcs

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To: "Marc Stiegler" <marcs@skyhunter.com>
Cc: <e-lang@eros-os.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [E-Lang] what is good about E?


> Marc Stiegler wrote:
> > The good news is, I think, that in a full-power
> > EROS-like system no directx installation could hose your whole
system--it
> > should only be able to hose the users of DirectX, once again because of
the
> > severely limited authorities conveyed to both directx and the installer
app
> > putting it in.
>
> Probably not. The "Direct" in "DirectX" means that DirectX has direct
> access to the hardware. There is not a lot you can do at that point
> other than dynamic compilation to inject sandboxing code.
>
> And even so, after you sandbox you're not really sure what the state of
> the machine is for recovery purposes.
>
> Jonathan
>