Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Posted Mar 30, 2017 3:58 UTC (Thu) by Fowl (subscriber, #65667)Parent article: Fuchsia: a new operating system
Mmmm... Handles, objects, capabilities and C++. Sounds like that other famous "microkernel" everybody loves to hate ;p
Posted Apr 6, 2017 0:48 UTC (Thu)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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We call them file descriptors and/or (for the instance of an fd owned by a specific process) file descriptions (a term that only POSIX could love). Those are precisely handles and also serve as unforgeable capabilities.
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Honestly, Unix has handles and something like capabilities: indeed, they're the same thing, and are the most fundamental thing about Unix.