Re: Hygiene for a computing pandemic: separation of VCs and ocaps/zcaps

Christopher Lemmer Webber writes:

>  - Why not treat programs like functions/objects?  Programs start with
>    no authority for any interesting effects, and we explicitly pass in
>    as much filesystem/network/display/input access as we deem
>    appropriate.  This is how ocap filesystems work!

Sorry, I meant to say, "This is how ocap operating systems work!"
(Those operating systems will probably have filesystems as part of them,
but filesystems are not the only interesting parts of operating
systems.)

Received on Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:26:36 UTC