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author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-01-09 23:34:42 +0100 |
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committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-01-09 23:34:42 +0100 |
commit | f3df65ce34153357d28bee621bdf49b61e68b182 (patch) | |
tree | 25ac416b157b010ca2f942dac5c5ba0b38a924ac /capability.mdwn | |
parent | 09184ae09c44c052a207aa5c6dc8ce9cf61a343f (diff) | |
parent | 3bbe62327128ce85829a4cb2fb429bd8f21b4d75 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of flubber:~hurd-web/hurd-web
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/capability.mdwn b/capability.mdwn index 367ea163..d78810d5 100644 --- a/capability.mdwn +++ b/capability.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ -[[!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. |