Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd

[Tom Bachmann]

Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> At Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:21:15 +0100,
> Tom Bachmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > like a directory? Or how could even new apps exchange file names without 
> > abiguity?
>
>
> - Doctor, it hurts if I do this.
> - Then don't do it.
>
> New applications are better off exchanging capabilities to files
> rather than file names for access to files.

Clearly. I explicitely stated "file names" to point the problem out. 
Still it might be possible to completely avoid exchanging names other 
than caps, but if the user is involved this at least requires a way to 
name a capability by a string. Anyway, this is offtopic.
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