On Tuesday 25 April 2006 12:19, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Now that you mention it, for pipes one probably would want write-only
> capabilities.  Do you know about other use cases for write-only
> capabilities?

stdout and stderr are write-only in POSIX. Also, I don't know if this is 
covered by the capability system, some devices (such as the traditional 
keyboard controller) distinguish write registers from read registers.

Okuji


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