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ECS capabilities for disk files were created by the directory system.
The directory system was implemented as a single subprocess within a
user process. The directory system maintained each directory in a
single disk file. Directory capabilities were another special kind of
ECS system user capability, for which the
capability-creating-authorization was retained by the directory
system. These directory capabilities contained the same information in
their data parts as disk file capabilities, but since they were of the
wrong type they could not be used as disk file capabilities by user
programs.
Paul McJones
1998-06-22