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From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: High-priority library replacements?
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:46:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130428174621.GU20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <517CC778.3030402@gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 02:53:44PM +0800, Muhammad Sumyandityo Noor wrote:
> >Software-rendered GL is definitely not the solution, but I wonder if
> >it would be reasonable to create a library that provides the OpenGL
> >API with NO namespace pollution or introduction of dangerous code into
> >the application's address space, by cooperating with a separate
> >process via shared memory. On modern Linux, this separate process
> >could use Linux namespaces to completely throw away all privileges
> >except to the graphics device. Then the nasty legacy OpenGL code could
> >run in a sandbox.
> 
> Pardon for my limited understanding of this matter. But if you mean
> replacing manufacturer-provided libEGL.so and libGLES**.so, then I
> don't think it's possible, as many parts of it are hidden. And to

Not replacing, wrapping. With the wrapped code being in another
sandboxed process.

> separate that to another process, I don't think OpenGL Context can
> be shared to another process or created without referencing to
> libEGL.

Sure it can. This is always fundamentally possible.

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-28 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-25  4:15 Rich Felker
2013-04-25  5:05 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-04-25  5:21   ` Rich Felker
2013-04-25  5:55 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-04-25  7:34   ` Jens Staal
2013-04-25 12:18     ` Rich Felker
2013-04-25 13:54     ` Kurt H Maier
2013-04-25  6:43 ` Gregor Pintar
2013-04-26  0:55   ` idunham
2013-04-26  1:11     ` crypto libraries idunham
2013-04-26  7:51       ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-04-26  1:51     ` High-priority library replacements? Rich Felker
2013-04-26  8:11     ` Gregor Pintar
2013-04-26 15:47       ` Rich Felker
2013-04-26 17:24         ` Gregor Pintar
2013-04-28 21:43         ` Rob Landley
2013-04-29 10:16       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-04-29 12:09         ` Rich Felker
2013-04-29 17:35         ` Gregor Pintar
2013-04-29 21:55           ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-04-30  2:10             ` Rich Felker
2013-04-30  6:32               ` Gregor Pintar
2013-04-30  8:35                 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-04-30  9:58                   ` Gregor Pintar
2013-04-30 11:30                     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-04-30 14:11                       ` Gregor Pintar
2013-05-01  7:26                     ` Gregor Pintar
2013-05-08 21:37                       ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-05-08 23:00                         ` idunham
2013-05-09  7:36                           ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-05-09  9:03                             ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-05-09 11:10                             ` LM
2013-05-09 14:08                             ` Rich Felker
2013-05-09 14:40                               ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-05-09 14:45                                 ` Rich Felker
2013-05-12 22:42                                   ` Brad Conroy
2013-05-15 20:17                                     ` Rich Felker
2013-05-16 16:12                                       ` Justin Cormack
2013-05-17  1:56                                         ` Rich Felker
2013-05-17  7:28                                           ` Justin Cormack
2013-05-09 16:40                                 ` LM
2013-04-30 18:47   ` Nicolas Braud-Santoni
2013-04-30 19:18     ` Gregor Pintar
2013-05-26 20:09   ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-05-27 15:53     ` Gregor Pintar
2013-05-28  9:27       ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-05-28 17:30         ` Gregor Pintar
2013-05-28 13:11     ` LM
2013-05-28 21:38       ` Rob Landley
2013-05-31 11:13         ` LM
2013-05-31 11:36           ` LM
2013-04-25  7:21 ` Hal Clark
2013-04-25 10:58   ` Igmar Palsenberg
2013-04-25 12:28   ` Rich Felker
2013-04-25 11:44 ` LM
2013-04-25 12:51   ` Rich Felker
2013-04-25 15:30     ` Jens Staal
2013-04-25 16:51     ` Zvi Gilboa
2013-04-25 16:57       ` Justin Cormack
2013-04-25 17:53         ` Zvi Gilboa
2013-04-27  5:45           ` Rob Landley
2013-04-27  8:13             ` Luca Barbato
2013-04-27 13:05             ` Zvi Gilboa
2013-04-26  6:11       ` Igmar Palsenberg
2013-04-28 21:34         ` Licensing Rob Landley
2013-04-29 20:47           ` Licensing Rich Felker
2013-04-29 21:10             ` Licensing Jens Gustedt
2013-04-29 22:47               ` Licensing Kurt H Maier
2013-04-29 22:50             ` Licensing Rob Landley
2013-04-30 12:32           ` Licensing LM
2013-04-26  4:19 ` High-priority library replacements? Isaac Dunham
2013-04-26 11:41   ` LM
2013-04-26 12:57     ` Muhammad Sumyandityo Noor
2013-04-26 15:53       ` Rich Felker
2013-04-28  6:53         ` Muhammad Sumyandityo Noor
2013-04-28 17:46           ` Rich Felker [this message]
2013-04-26 16:52       ` LM
2013-04-26  4:32 ` nwmcsween
2013-04-29  5:51 Brad Conroy
2013-04-29 16:38 ` John Spencer
2013-04-29 20:14   ` Rob Landley
2013-04-29 20:53     ` Rich Felker
2013-04-30  1:53       ` idunham
2013-04-30  2:21         ` Rich Felker

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