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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010 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
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
A capability is a protected reference. It is a reference in that
it designates an object; it is protected in that in cannot be
@@ -27,7 +28,6 @@ sent a string to identify the file to B, the identifier lacks a
than A intended. Be ensuring that [[designation]] and [[authorization]] are
always bound together, these problems are avoided.
-[[Unix]] file descriptors can be viewed as capabilities. Unix file
-descriptors do not survive reboot, that is, they are not
-[[persistent|persistency]]. To work around this, [[ACL]]s are used to
-recover authority.
+[[UNIX file descriptors|unix/file_descriptor]] can be viewed as capabilities.
+They do not survive reboot, that is, they are not [[persistent|persistency]].
+To work around this, [[ACL]]s are used to recover authority.