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From: Ad Buijsen <albuijsen@home.invalid>
Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:55:06 +0100
Date: 2010-01-13T19:55:06+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <240c1$4b4e170b$541ada03$25446@cache3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hijf5j$pql$1@news.albasani.net>

Leslie wrote:

> 
>         If possible, also, it would be nice to get away from the "root
> can do anything" paradigm, and its associated inherited
> privileges (crash a root-capable process and steal its
> privileges).  It would be nice to see something more like the
> explicit privilege design used by CP in IBM's VM operating
> systems.

A capability-based OS, like Coyotos, perhaps?

The latest version of Genode (announced in this group) supports 
components programmed in SPARK; this allows a gentle entry to building 
an OS by piecemeal replacement of servers, and possibly even the 
microkernel.

Ad Buijsen



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-13 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-12  1:13 Writing an Operating System in Ada Shark8
2010-01-12  3:30 ` Leslie
2010-01-12  7:06   ` Shark8
2010-01-12  8:36     ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-01-12 15:14       ` jonathan
2010-01-12 16:21   ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-01-12 16:36     ` Shark8
2010-01-12 17:03       ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-01-12 19:07     ` Tero Koskinen
2010-01-12  9:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-12 17:37   ` Shark8
2010-01-12 19:56     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-12 21:21       ` Shark8
2010-01-12 22:39         ` nobody
2010-01-12 22:50           ` Shark8
2010-01-15 22:45             ` nobody
2010-01-19 21:09               ` Shark8
2010-01-12 21:52       ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-12 23:26         ` Shark8
2010-01-13  9:17         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-13 20:20           ` Shark8
2010-01-13 20:55             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-13 22:50               ` Shark8
2010-01-14  8:55                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 18:01                   ` Shark8
2010-01-14 19:04                     ` tmoran
2010-01-19 19:07                       ` Shark8
2010-01-14 19:53                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 21:07                       ` Shark8
2010-01-14 21:50                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-15  1:24                           ` Randy Brukardt
2010-01-15  8:59                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-19 18:58                   ` Shark8
2010-01-19 19:43                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14  9:40           ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-14 10:28             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 18:57               ` tmoran
2010-01-14 19:19                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 20:33                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-14 21:09                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 21:50               ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-15  8:37                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-15 21:05                   ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-15 21:48                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-16 21:18                       ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-16 22:15                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-18 11:23                           ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-18 13:50                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-18 15:21                               ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-18 16:41                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-18 17:17                                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-18 18:08                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-19 17:41         ` Writing an Operating System in Ada - now off topic? Leslie
2010-01-13  9:09       ` Writing an Operating System in Ada Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-13  9:27         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-13  3:38     ` Leslie
2010-01-13 12:10       ` Martin
2010-01-13 18:55       ` Ad Buijsen [this message]
2010-01-14  9:12       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-01-14 10:45         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 11:31           ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-01-14 13:47             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 18:57         ` tmoran
2010-01-13  4:49   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-01-13 17:29 ` Lucretia
2010-01-13 20:37   ` Shark8
2010-01-16  0:13     ` Lucretia
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