A note on the confinement problem
The work
| Authors | Butler Lampson |
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| Type | article |
| Year | 1973 |
| Citekey | lampson1973note |
Where it appeared
| Published in | Communications of the ACM |
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| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 613--615 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1145/362375.362389 |
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| OpenAlex | W2099137371 |
Access
| Free full text | https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/362375.362389 |
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| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.1145/362375.362389 |
Abstract
This note explores the problem of confining 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.
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@article{lampson1973note,
title = {A note on the confinement problem},
author = {Butler Lampson},
year = {1973},
journal = {Communications of the ACM},
volume = {16},
number = {10},
pages = {613--615},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/362375.362389},
}
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