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Read or write the datum part of a datum capability

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