Security question?

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Thu Nov 4 13:30:48 PST 2004


Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > BTW: Solaris has a shared-memory transport (AFAIK HP-UX, too) ... but I
> > am not sure whether this is indicated via a seperate socket family or
> > just handled internally by Xlib.
> 
> For Solaris it still opens a named pipe as the transport to write messages
> across notifying the other side when new data is ready to be read from the
> shared memory segment.

Did anyone tried to use the door API instead of the named pipe (that may
reduce the latency even further) ?

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Bye,
Roland

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