Re: Challenge: Find potential use cases for non-trivial confinement

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 08:36 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> At Mon, 01 May 2006 01:25:37 -0400,
> "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > I actually find this very curious. RMS has been willing to let the world
> > evolve into understanding over time, and this has been greatly
> > beneficial. Marcus is trying to take a "giant leap." I don't think it is
> > going to work, but it is certainly interesting.
> 
> This is really strange.  No operating system in wide use supports the
> confinement property as you advocate it.  Not using confinement in the
> system design really is the conservative choice.  In another mail you
> said that my proposal was radical.  I wish I would have the honor of
> finding a radical new operating system design, but that is of course
> not the case.

Omitting confinement is not the radical part. The radical part is
omitting encapsulation -- which is what I clearly said if you had
bothered to read.


shap