Security question?

[Alan Coopersmith]

Roland Mainz wrote:
> 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) ?

Thought about it, but the requirement to make the Xserver multithreaded to
support a door server made it very unattractive (and you'ld still have to
wait for the main thread to come back through WaitForSomething() before you
could do anything anyway).

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