On 1 Aug 2021, at 10:12, William ML Leslie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wouldn't there be a risk that a Linux system call would present an >> argument that happens to look like a capability and not get >> intercepted if system calls were implemented by just catching the >> existing invalid-syscall exceptions? >> > > Not if you don't have any capabilities mapped into the address space.
Correct, which would be a reasonable design for a legacy subsystem, it forces each syscall to raise an exception. Silly me for not pointing this out in the first place. Gernot _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
