Fuchsia: a new operating system

Posted Apr 6, 2017 0:48 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Fuchsia: a new operating system by Fowl
Parent article: Fuchsia: a new operating system

Honestly, Unix has handles and something like capabilities: indeed, they're the same thing, and are the most fundamental thing about Unix.

We call them file descriptors and/or (for the instance of an fd owned by a specific process) file descriptions (a term that only POSIX could love). Those are precisely handles and also serve as unforgeable capabilities.