Re: protected payloads for GNU Mach

2014-02-19 Thread Richard Braun
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:49:23PM -0800, Samuel Thibault wrote: Apart from that and perhaps a function to clear the protected payload value (which may however not be really useful), the whole thing seems interesting and good to me, do other people agree? Well, since I've pushed that as a

Re: protected payloads for GNU Mach

2014-02-19 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Richard Braun (2014-02-19 10:47:03) On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:49:23PM -0800, Samuel Thibault wrote: Apart from that and perhaps a function to clear the protected payload value (which may however not be really useful), the whole thing seems interesting and good to me, do other

Re: protected payloads for GNU Mach

2014-02-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Documentation changes should rather be commited along the source code change. Apart from that and perhaps a function to clear the protected payload value (which may however not be really useful), the whole thing seems interesting and good to me, do other people agree? Samuel

protected payloads for GNU Mach

2014-02-17 Thread Justus Winter
Hi :) this patch series implements protected payloads on top of the mach messaging system. It preserves the semantics for programs not using this functionality. This is the kernel part of my work that will (hopefully) speed up the Hurd. For a detailed sketch see: