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From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sendfd() on native Plan 9?
Date: Sun,  4 Jan 2009 17:24:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231118687.11463.317.camel@goose.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f971a06f85a460fe83f7571989845ba@proxima.alt.za>

On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 20:23 +0200, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > i haven't even seen what i think is a compelling
> > argument for sendfd yet you're trying to argue
> > for second-order problems with a particular
> > application of sendfd.
> >
> Sendfd() seems to me a somewhat more carefully controlled version of
> /srv.  As it stands, the additional features of sendfd() involving
> security are not present in /srv,

Guys, lets stop talking about security issues. I don't think there are
any that need to be worried about. Nathaniel has identified a couple
of real issues with the current implementation of /srv so lets focus
on those.

> so one can make a case for providing sendfd()
> or a moral equivalent
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ incoming... ;-) (Sorry, couldn't resit)

Thanks,
Roman.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-05  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-23 18:01 Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-23 22:52 ` Rodolfo kix Garcia
2008-12-23 23:53   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-12-24  1:10     ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-24  1:39       ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-24  3:00         ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-24  4:14           ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-24  7:36             ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-24 13:36               ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-27 20:27                 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-27 20:34                   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-12-27 20:21       ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-30  8:22         ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-30 15:04           ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-12-30 15:31           ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-01 22:53             ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-01 23:57               ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-01-03 21:23                 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-03 21:41                   ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-03 21:59                     ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-03 23:57                   ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-01-04  5:19                     ` lucio
2009-01-04  5:48                       ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-04  6:10                         ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-01-04  6:43                           ` lucio
2009-01-05  1:12                             ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-05  1:32                               ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-05  3:48                                 ` lucio
2009-01-04 17:32                           ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-04 18:23                             ` lucio
2009-01-05  1:24                               ` Roman V. Shaposhnik [this message]
2009-01-04  5:58                       ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-01-04  6:26                         ` lucio
2009-01-04 15:46                           ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-05  4:30                     ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-12-24  1:17   ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-27 17:06 ` Russ Cox

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