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You're going to need to be more specific. Linux does indeed have a feature called "capabilities", so it's not clear exactly which OS feature you are taking about.



Linux Capabilities are POSIX Capabilities, which are a very different thing, with a quite misleading name.

From the wikipedia capabilities article[1]:

>Capabilities as discussed in this article should not be confused with POSIX 1e/2c "Capabilities".

Also refer to the Genode Foundations[2] book, chapter 3.1.

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

[2] https://genode.org/documentation/genode-foundations-17-05.pd...


I second that. Genode isolation of concerns is absolutely beautiful.




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