Re: Random Register Contents

Andrej Presern (andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 01:12:42 +0100

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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Andrej Presern, andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si


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