From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages In-Reply-To: <3766.199.98.20.110.1065564450.squirrel@wish> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:34:16 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 67092fd6-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Joel Salomon wrote: > VNC might have been a better example - it doesn't appear to provide > *anything* but the keyboard/mouse/screen I'm not sure I follow your exact point here, so I'll respond to what I think you mean... But processes don't run on the VNC console so this example is actualy moot. So if you could write to that display on that box the fact its exported by VNC would not be an issue. If it did then VNC would be capable of -modifying- the bit stream, not just creating a copy and sending it elsewhere, and that should be a no no. It's on somebody elses hardware and generaly trying to impose your views there is a Bad Thing (TM) without their consent. The rc and rio processes would still be running on the server, not the VNC console. And that is where you want to write the wall to. The VNC will pick it up as part of its normal operations. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com