Re: Authority verification

2009-05-21 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:50:56PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:48:34AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > What would have been a more appropriate problem to describe, would > have been that if equality test were to be done in the sender (or the > rece

Re: Authority verification

2009-04-24 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
ying to think about all possible > implications up front. Same reason I was always sceptical about the > ngHurd stuff... I agree with your critique. I'm planning to refocus my effort, but perhaps not in the way you'd want ;-). However, this will be the topic of another mail. I

Re: Authority verification

2009-04-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:46:10PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > I guess this mail turned out to be more of a report on my findings > rather than to start a discussion. So I'm mostly looking for > feedback, e.g. if what I'm saying doesn't make sense, if one of my > assumptions are wron

Authority verification

2009-04-23 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
mail about what I like to call ``authority verification''. Though I am open to suggestions for alternatives to the name. ;-) Most objects in the Hurd depend on other objects to function. In order for a process to receive a mobile object from a sending process it must gain access to