...interesting

For example what competitors' programs are installed on your computer.

...policies

Naturally, for this to be effective the processes must not be allowed to map others' name-spaces into their own. This is usually possible in Unix systems today.

...topic

Examples of ontologies are metric units, airplane-models and, perhaps, Solaris-Threads' execution state.

...infinitum

if you try to monitor the sensors with other sensors

...Tcl

Not really wise for a resource-critical application like this!!

...truss

On SunOS 4.1.* a similar program called trace is available.

...messages

Except for the OS-method of selecting readable file descriptors.

...attack

Port-walking means that connections are opened at random to the ports of the computer to find out if anyone is serving that port. If the type of service on a port can be identified it can be used as a starting place of an attack on the computer.

Andreas Rasmusson
Fri Oct 25 11:36:45 MET DST 1996