Hi,

Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> For the moment I'm not concerning myself with capabilities.  I just assume I
> get all the rights I need when starting up.  If that turns out not to be the
> case, startup should fail.  At the moment I'm writing things on GNU/Linux, and
> the kind of applications I write for now use only stdin/stdout, so it isn't an
> issue yet anyway. :-)

By "capabilities", I also meant "file descriptors".  Sure, FDs 0 to 2
are always granted, but that's not the case for the other FDs.

BTW, Emacs also has an `unexec' feature which might be of interest:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/src/unexec.c?rev=1.40&view=auto 
.

Cheers,
Ludovic.


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