Re: [Caja] Important new paper: The Need for Capability Policiies

"Drossopoulou, Sophia" <s.drossopoulou-AQ/[email protected]> Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:42:16 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Shriram,

Do you mean that "policy languages" expect to be monitored while the program is executed, and throw exceptions when not adhered to, while what James and I propose in our paper is something that is the property of a program, and would (most naturally) be checked statically?

Sophia

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Miller
Sent: 11 July 2013 16:29
To: Shriram Krishnamurthi; Discussion of E and other capability languages
Subject: Re: [e-lang] [Caja] Important new paper: The Need for Capability Policiies

....

> The difference between ACLs and the kinds of policies in this paper is
> that these look to me for the most part to be traditional program
> *properties*. In contrast, policy languages are part of the active
> execution of the program, usually as a callout to some policy
> decision/enforcement agent.

Do you have a positive example?

_______________________________________________
e-lang mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.eros-os.org/mailman/listinfo/e-lang