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diff --git a/capability.mdwn b/capability.mdwn index 06d3cf4a..d78810d5 100644 --- a/capability.mdwn +++ b/capability.mdwn @@ -1,19 +1,13 @@ -[[license text=""" -Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] -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.txt]]. - -By contributing to this page, you agree to assign copyright for your -contribution to the Free Software Foundation. The Free Software Foundation -promises to always use either a verbatim copying license or a free -documentation license when publishing your contribution. We grant you back all -your rights under copyright, including the rights to copy, modify, and -redistribute your contributions. -"""]] +[[!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]]."]]"""]] A capability is a protected reference. It is a reference in that it designates an object; it is protected in that in cannot be @@ -34,7 +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. |