Messages in this thread | | | From | Nix <> | Subject | Re: minimum capabilities? | Date | 14 Apr 1999 21:01:20 +0100 |
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Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> writes:
> "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said: > > Execution should fail when the new capabilities (after calculation) are > > not enough to do everything the executable needs to do. If execution > > can proceed, the user has selective control over system call failures. > > Ever heard of a chap called Alan Turing?
It's more than the halting problem; to do what Albert suggested in the general case would require a solution to the halting problem *and* a functioning time machine.
So, er, not yet. Wait for Linux 10, which comes with a pocket universe with a number of modified physical and logical laws to implement this facility. (This is probably due out around AD 2080, perhaps a quarter-year before the Singularity.)
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