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rwmj • today at 8:26 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

We wanted capabilities[1]. Instead we get this over-complicated series of system calls with no design consistency that you have to use very carefully, else they can be bypassed (see the list of caveats on the failfs page).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security