Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons

At Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:36:47 -0500,
"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 18:33 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> > So let's separate the issues.  There are two issues:
> > 
> > 1) Should a linking (interpreter selection etc) algorithm be provided
> >    along with the program files or should it exist in the ambient
> >    space of the operating system?
> > 
> > 2) Should the algorithm be run in its own address space or not?
> 
> (1) is infeasible in a system where the instantiating party does not
> have access to the capabilities that the program will require. One
> purpose of the constructor mechanism is to allow (e.g.) an instantiated
> password agent to have access to the password database when I do not.

As I was discussing my system structure proposal (or in other words,
the Hurd, not Coyotos), this objection doesn't apply.

Thanks,
Marcus