From: Silas McCroskey <inkswinc@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] ipso(1) $editor
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:23:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHjwAuyd3SjnKeiovugmn09K=hy-gTWwtVK4enWTgj6KGR2S6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9E11075B-CE74-4317-AD3B-9720D3BCFA42@quintile.net>
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:19 AM Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>
>
> i was suggesting the plumber use $editor rather than having its own private view of the users editor of choice.
>
> however i think sl is saying $editor does not exist on plan9, but only on *nux.
>
> the problem with using the plumber is that ipso starts ramfs to keep the editors temporary buffers safe and private. it also keeps the extracted factotum secrets file there. if you use the plumber then the secrets are/may be more exposed; particularly if you run it on a cpu server - though that has its own problems.
>
> -Steve
The plumber also would access $editor from its own environment rather
than from the program that had called it.
The use case in question probably looks like 'editor=foo ipso' -- ipso
would have to forward that env var to the plumber, which brings us
back to modifying ipso anyways.
- sam-d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-13 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <EE136F7DAFC0826091FA862A624F0BF5@ewsd.inri.net>
2020-03-12 2:10 ` ori
2020-03-13 16:30 ` hiro
2020-03-13 16:39 ` Stanley Lieber
2020-03-13 16:42 ` hiro
2020-03-13 17:18 ` Steve Simon
2020-03-13 17:28 ` hiro
2020-03-13 21:23 ` Silas McCroskey [this message]
2020-03-13 22:04 ` Stanley Lieber
2020-03-13 23:44 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-03-14 0:55 ` Stanley Lieber
2020-03-14 11:20 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-03-13 17:35 ` ori
2020-03-13 19:33 ` Ethan Gardener
[not found] <362DF8C1B0A64514457A3CC11BA305F7@ewsd.inri.net>
2020-03-12 2:24 ` Trevor Higgins
2020-03-12 2:29 ` sl
2020-03-13 16:45 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-03-13 17:04 ` hiro
2020-03-13 17:08 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-03-13 17:12 ` hiro
2020-03-13 17:14 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-04-13 1:13 ` ori
2020-04-13 1:31 ` hiro
2020-04-13 3:31 ` Anthony Martin
2020-04-13 3:35 ` ori
2020-04-13 3:47 ` ori
2020-04-16 10:18 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-04-16 16:05 ` Steve Simon
2020-04-17 19:53 ` ori
2020-04-18 10:51 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-04-22 11:03 ` hiro
2020-03-11 15:22 Stanley Lieber
2020-03-11 22:16 ` [9front] " Steve Simon
2020-03-12 1:49 ` sl
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