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Any program may explicitly read the datum part of a datum capability.
Similarly, any program may arbitrarily replace the datum part of such
a capability. For example, a re-implementation of the CAL TSS disk
system might place the disk address of a disk file in a datum
capability. (The capability must then be locked, as described below,
before passing to a user program.)
Paul McJones
1998-06-22