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Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno plug-in security
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From: "Anssi Porttikivi" <anssi.porttikivi@teleware.fi>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:02:08 +0300
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<anothy@cosym.net> wrote in message
news:<20010618153305.C69A519A08@mail.cse.psu.edu>...
> //if all sensitive system access is through the file system,
> //who cares about rogue Dis modules?
>=20
> imagine i write a Limbo app that does nothing graphical,
> provides no indication to the user that it's running, but
> floods some site with network connections.

Hmmm... the basic idea in all Plan 9 and Inferno is, that even network
connections are services offered by directories which are called "file
systems", the /net/tcp... etc. files. A Limbo application can not open a
connection except by accessing the /net or /dev/ether or any of the
other possible FILE SYSTEMs, like those "objects" are called in Plan 9 /
Inferno parlance.

See http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/styx.html, part "Example:
networking".