Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrej Presern <> | Subject | Re: Random Register Contents | Date | Thu, 5 Nov 1998 01:12:42 +0100 |
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On Tue, 03 Nov 1998, Alan Cox wrote: >> Since in a UNIX system authority to access a filesystem is basically tied to an >> identity (a user's id), how exactly does Xenix prevent a process from leaking >> information through the filesystem (or any other means, it's the same issue >> anyway) to another process by the same user? > >B2 is tied to priviledge levels and 'compartmentalisation' stuff.
Could you please explain how those privilege levels are used to accomplish the above given task?
Andrej
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