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

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 19/05/2006 hora 16:22:
> As a system service.  It runs in constant storage (it creates one
> packet at a time, it needs to wait for the network card anyway if
> there's another ping busy), so this is no problem.

But the ping you describe here seems to have reduced features than the
current ping or the constructor-based ping.

> If accounting is required, this uses constant storage per user as well
> (if done sensibly), so this can be system storage which is
> conceptually subtracted from the real quota the user should have

Then the design is more complex and error-prone. You lose the simplicity
of the fact that the quota is just enforced by giving the user what he
is allowed to use, and let him give it to the programs.

Doubtfully,
Nowhere man
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