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Re: Design principles and ethics


From: Pierre THIERRY
Subject: Re: Design principles and ethics
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 00:33:06 +0200
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Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 01/05/2006 hora 23:20:
> > > C. The child cannot have any capability that the parent couldn't
> > > gain access to. 
> This is correct, but it isn't an extra requirement.  Just like in the
> constructor, the child cannot receive a capability that neither the
> parent nor the instantiator possess.

Either you or I have misunderstood something in how a constructor works.
I had understood that the constructor is given a set of capabilities
along with the process it will instantiates. This capabilities could be
out of reach for the instantiator.

IIUC, it addresses the billing part of the confused deputy problem
description.

Confusingly,
Nowhere man
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