Its probable this was meant to be a boolean flag to represent
whether or not the TCB had a bound notification object. However,
this field is unused and its presence is confusing.
Diminish rights were to prevent a user from sending a writeable
cap over a read only endpoint. It turns out this 'security' can
be worked around without difficulty (by putting caps in a cnode
and sending the cnode) making the current diminish rights
implementation functionally useless.
Removing diminish rights has the benefit of simplifying all the
IPC paths.
mode directories
This commit is 'broken' as it leaves the repository in an unbuildable state.
The purpose of having this commit is so that there is a commit where the
modifications to these files is *just* a rename, making it easier to merge
these changes into other branches.
2015-12-14 12:48:12 +11:00
Renamed from include/object/structures.bf (Browse further)
