Re: domain/node key restriction Bill Frantz (frantz@netcom.com)
Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:13:22 -0800

At 11:57 AM -0800 1/6/97, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>Anybody got a compelling reason to permit such operations?

You probably want to support changing:

The meter slot
The addressing slot
The instruction pointer/registers/hardware definition slot(s) The domain's keys registers

When setting up a "clone" domain, changing the registers etc. (The KeyKOS Domain_PutStuff operation) can be invoked on the domain key passing a resume key to that domain in the 4th slot, saving a jump in the setup.

It seems legitimate to require that these operations be performed thru a domain key rather than some random node keys.


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