On Mon, 31.10.2005 at 09:31 -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:29 +0200, Paavo Parkkinen wrote: > > On Sun, 30.10.2005 at 16:55 -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > > > There is a meta-level problem with self-paging. It is predicated on the > > > assumption that one application should be informed about pressures > > > resulting from the behavior of other applications. > > > > Why is this a problem? > > Because any story about security begins with the goal that for any two > process A and B, it should be possible to prevent communication from A > to B. If B is asked to reduce its working set in response to an action > by A, then communication has occurred.
I understand this completely. I just don't see how a demand to page out a page is communication from a process A to a process B. To me it seems like communicating about the state of the system to a process A. Is this also forbidden? Why? Paavo -- kremlin kanavien soppaa _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
