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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2011-01-09 23:34:42 +0100
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2011-01-09 23:34:42 +0100
commitf3df65ce34153357d28bee621bdf49b61e68b182 (patch)
tree25ac416b157b010ca2f942dac5c5ba0b38a924ac /capability.mdwn
parent09184ae09c44c052a207aa5c6dc8ce9cf61a343f (diff)
parent3bbe62327128ce85829a4cb2fb429bd8f21b4d75 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of flubber:~hurd-web/hurd-web
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@@ -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.