[EROS-Arch] Package handling...

[Bill Frantz]

At 8:44 AM -0800 3/28/01, Joerg Bornschein wrote:
>Each individual constructor uses reference counting.

How does the reference count get decremented if someone zaps the space bank
used to build the object instead of using the destroy call?

Reference counting introduces a big covert channel.

Cheers - Bill


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