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@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ execution is switched to \emph{user mode}. As with traditional modern
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operating systems, the code of such software has its own \emph{address
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space}, which means that it can not directly manipulate \sysname{}
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capabilities. Instead, it has to communicate with the system through
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the user of \emph{system calls}. A system-wide object is referred to
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the use of \emph{system calls}. A system-wide object is referred to
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by such code through an interposing \emph{object descriptor}, much
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like a file descriptor in \unix{}. The details of this mechanism have
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not yet been fully determined.
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