resume capabilities

[Kragen Sitaker]

Norm Hardy writes:
> At 15:46 -0500 00/01/02, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> >I think you misunderstood my statement.  I was simply thinking of the
> >way Unix was written --- it started out as a very minimal system with
> >an architecture good enough to permit extension, but the actual
> >extension didn't happen until it was needed.
>
> Some desirable system properties can be had by extending current systems.
> Some cannot. Many of the strengths of Keykos and EROS stem from what they
> lack. I have not seen proposals of how to add things to Unix in order to
> provide confinement.

I don't think it's impossible, but I think the EROS/Dionysix approach
is probably a cleaner way to provide confinement in a Unix-like system.

I recognize that some things are "now or never" issues.  The reason I
added the Emacs paragraph to my original post is that I realized that,
right now, we're on the "now or never" stuff, and stuff that's less
essential can wait until we get to it.  I wasn't sure which category
the you-must-trust-the-server decision belonged in, and I didn't want
to waste people's time if it wasn't a "now or never" issue.

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