Re-forwarding yet again... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [chromium-dev] Re: OS X IPC Design doc To: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Amanda Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our informal requirement has been "create equivalent functionality to the > Windows implementations." One approach that we have not spent a lot of time > on is looking at how the Windows implementation of some of these > capabilities could be changed or stripped down to be more multi-platform > friendly. In some cases that might well be the best approach--do you have a > feel for how hard it would be to stop using ShareToProcess, DuplicateHandle, > etc. and make the code that's currently using it more portable? > After a rough survey, this actually doesn't seem too bad. Here are the places that currently use capabilities that would be difficult with an anonymous pipe: - visited link handling (ShareToProcess) - statstable (already implemented but could be cleaned up, uses named shared memory) - Lots of stuff uses DuplicateHandle, but only a few places appear to rely on duplicating a handle into another process (and it's pretty much a given that the sandbox implementations will not be shared with Windows, and possibly won't be shared with Linux (since Linux can't rely on the presence of Mandatory Access Controls in all distros to control subprocess capabilities). I'd still like to do some real performance comparisons, but aside from performance worries I'll back off a bit on my expectation that we'll need to use Mach APIs for other critical capabilities until we get farther along. --Amanda -- --Amanda "To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice." --Kung Fu Tse --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
