Re: exec server behavior

2016-08-25 Thread Richard Braun
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:20:45PM +0200, Richard Braun wrote: > I started thinking about these only a couple of weeks ago, and so far > the only solutions my limited brain can come up with is to either use > the client context (by perhaps passing its root) but that could cause > security issues,

Re: exec server behavior

2016-08-25 Thread Richard Braun
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 07:24:16PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote: > So, I'll modify libpager to handle multiple clients. Not trivial, but it > seems necessary and correct. Don't start that immediately, wait for more discussions. I'm not so sure it would make sense to support more than one

exec server behavior

2016-08-24 Thread Brent W. Baccala
Aloha - My recent experiments with 'netmsg' have lead me to investigate the operation of Hurd's exec server, and I've got a few questions. First off, the current obstacle to exec'ing files over netmsg is the need to operate the memory_object protocol over the TCP/IP connection. libpager has a