[COFF] Other OSes?

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Jul 4, 2018, at 10:56 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> OK, I guess I'll be the one to start things going on the COFF
> list.
>
> What other features, ideas etc. were available in other operating
> systems which Unix should have picked up but didn't?

A fascinating topic!

On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 23:40:36 -0700 Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com>
wrote:
> - Capabilities (a number of OSes implemented them -- See Hank
> Levy's book: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/

A fascinating resurrection of capabilities in a kind of pleasant
Unixy-way can be found in Robert Watson's "Capsicum" add-ons for
FreeBSD and Linux. I wish it was more widely known about and adopted.

> - Namespaces (plan9)

A good choice I think.

Perry
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