On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 02:31, Herbert Poetzl wrote;

  > The main reason for removing it was that this
  > capability had #30, and there are currently 32
  > bits available for capabilities, so I didn't 
  > want to use them up lightly ...

I'm sure an extra 4 bytes per process table entry won't hurt :-) In
fact on 64 bit architectures it probably won't even take that.

Sounds good, if a lot of work, but it needs to be done.  I wonder
whether the `magicness' of security context 1 shouldn't be controlled
by a capability instead?  It would mean that the root context has full
access to see all processes, but that was the case anyway - it could
just use chcontext.
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