Security question?

[Roland Mainz]

Alan Coopersmith 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

OUCH! ;-(

> (and you'ld still have to
> wait for the main thread to come back through WaitForSomething() before you
> could do anything anyway).

Somehow I think it would be better to extend the door API then (at least
it would be less pain for you :) ... :)

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Bye,
Roland

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