Namespaces ?

[Vincent Legoll]

Hello,

I was only reader until now, but I want to know
if I really understood the principles on which eros
is based.

I think that namespace is only needed when an user
want to tell some application what data he want to
work on, right ? (by data I mean an unit of data like
an email, an image, a text docmuent, etc...)

But data, is already represented by something, a
capability to the memory space containing this data,
no ?

So namespaces are used by users to access their data
stored in their accounts. (I see an account just as a data
container, so it will be a capability itself, holded by the
authentication process, which gives a copy of it  to a
shell-like application, after the authentication has
occured)

For me a namespace is a capability holder, in which the
user choose a particular one to select some data.

Please excuse me for my poor english, and perhaps for
my poor understanding of eros.

--
Vincent Legoll
French student in computer science.
legoll@online.fr