Re: Trusted Unices Aren't?

[Gordon Greene <Gordon.Greene () netsec net>]

At 09:38 AM 10/30/98 -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> > I always thought I'd missed out on something historical by being too late
> > for Multics.  And, while it's nice to have things look normal for a regular
> > user, doing trusted programming on a system that makes it tough to see what
> > you are working on is no tasty treat.
>
>       I was only in one compartment/level, and so
>       didn't need to know all the complex stuff.
>
>       If I was in several, I would have had visibility
>       into each.
Do you mean because of label dominance, or could you just have several
(possibly incomparable) labels going at once?
If it was that, how would things get sorted out and done at the appropriate
level?