> > The implementation of what Andrej prefers to call capabilities, has
>
> And what the designers and implementors of L4, EROS, KeyKOS, GNOSIS,
> XOK/EXOS, Grasshopper and other academic, experimental, commercial and
> military capability based operating systems dating from today and all
> the way back to 1960's, together with respected names of computer
> security industry, such as Landau, Hardy, Schroeder, Saltzer and others,
> prefer to call.
actually, if those institutions would have used that 2-3 years time window
and donated security code to Linux, we would call them 'capability lists'
probably. Also, the linux-privs mailing list was open for participation
during it's 1.5 years of existence. The first entity that came up with
some usable concept and interface prototype (usable for Linux) was Posix,
so now it's called 'capabilities'. They have put the resources into
proposing something usable, they got the naming fun.
-- mingo
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