Re: The Mill and Capability Systems

William ML Leslie <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:53:15 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.capabilities.general
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On 18 June 2015 at 11:07, David Nicol <[email protected]> wrote:
> what if Zachary can only grant a capability to Yvette after Yvette has
> granted Zachary a capability to grant to Yvette?

Probably Xavier has already granted to Zachary a capability to Yvette.

In this case, the process loader can map some memory with Portal
access into Zachary's address space.  It can create new portals from
pages mapped executable.  This is where the initial grant comes from.

-- 
William Leslie

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