A note on the confinement problem

  • Authors:
  • Butler W. Lampson

  • Affiliations:
  • Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1973

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Abstract

onfining a program during its execution so that it cannot transmit information to any other program except its caller. A set of examples attempts to stake out the boundaries of the problem. Necessary conditions for a solution are stated and informally justified.