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diff --git a/capability.mdwn b/capability.mdwn index 32a9b68f..2f094c8e 100644 --- a/capability.mdwn +++ b/capability.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 Free Software -Foundation, Inc."]] +[//]: # ([[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]) [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -9,6 +8,8 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +[[!meta title="Capability"]] + A capability is a protected reference. It is a reference in that it designates an object; it is protected in that in cannot be forged. A capability both designates the object it refers to and @@ -89,37 +90,22 @@ port|microkernel/mach/port]]. As in UNIX (see above), they are not ## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-07-01 - <nlightnfotis> I have read plenty of documents, and wrapped my head around - most Hurd concepts, but I still have not understood well what - capabilities are. + <nlightnfotis> I have read plenty of documents, and wrapped my head around most Hurd concepts, but I still have not understood well what capabilities are. <youpi> Mmm, which capabilities? - <youpi> AIUI, the Hurd doesn't really have a notion of capabilites, just a - notion of owning a port right - <nlightnfotis> From what I have understood (from the critique) they - reference ports so they objects can be referenced via them + <youpi> AIUI, the Hurd doesn't really have a notion of capabilites, just a notion of owning a port right + <nlightnfotis> From what I have understood (from the critique) they reference ports so they objects can be referenced via them <youpi> (which provides processes a way for doing things) <youpi> ok, so we are talking about the same thing, I guess - <nlightnfotis> ahh, that's cool. I thought there was more to the story that - I couldn't understand + <nlightnfotis> ahh, that's cool. I thought there was more to the story that I couldn't understand # Further Reading +* [[Mach port|microkernel/mach/port]] +* {{$wikipedia_capability-based_security}} +* {{$wikipedia_object-capability_model}} +* {{$wikipedia_polp}} - * [[Mach port|microkernel/mach/port]] - -[[!toggleable id=shapiro_capintro_1999 text="""[[!template id=note -text="*[[shapiro\_capintro\_1999|capability]]*: -{{$capability#shapiro_capintro_1999}}. -{{$capability#shapiro_capintro_1999_text}}."]]"""]] - - * [[!toggle id=shapiro_capintro_1999 text="[shapiro\_capintro\_1999]"]] - - * {{$wikipedia_capability-based_security}} - - * {{$wikipedia_object-capability_model}} - - * {{$wikipedia_polp}} - +<!-- This comment "pushes" polp into the list --> [[!tag open_issue_documentation]] <!-- <http://www.eros-os.org/essays/wherefrom.html>, |