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Fractional Permissions

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Aliasing in Object-Oriented Programming. Types, Analysis and Verification

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Fractional permissions allow resource tracking type systems to give out multiple read accesses to the same resource without losing the ability to re-form a unique write access later. This paper describes the motivation for fractional permissions, and different fractional models including those for which fractional scaling is required. We describe a particular system of fractional permissions that uses scaling to support the technique of “nesting.”

Work supported in part by the National Science Foundation (CCF-0702635). The opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the National Science Foundation or the US Government.

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    John Boyland

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    James Noble

  3. Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Lägerhyddsvägen 2, 75237, Uppsala, Sweden

    Tobias Wrigstad

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Boyland, J. (2013). Fractional Permissions. In: Clarke, D., Noble, J., Wrigstad, T. (eds) Aliasing in Object-Oriented Programming. Types, Analysis and Verification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7850. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36946-9_10

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