On 5/3/06, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Its more of feature bloatedness and codesize vs small (but full necessary) featureset and clean programming ;)
Yeah, maybe. I can't really compare. I have passing familiarty with Gecko and they're cleaning it up a lot, but it's still very very complicated.
Yeah similar to this strange emulator program where users actually download .exe files and run them under Linux :)
Heh, yeah but who cares about security problems in Wine :) If you are running the EXE well, it already has full privs. Problem solved!
helix-dbus-server is a good start (although for 64 <-> 32bit interop), imgsep a nice idea, seccomp a too restricted idea ... and so on. ;)
Yes the work was inspired by Walters imsep. Except DBUS is not really a great transport for this kind of thing. I was able to get something like a 8-10x speed improvement over MS-RPC (tested on Wine of course :) which isn't too bad .... the other main benefit of the RPC system I built is it's very easy to use, no IDL or language neutrality issues, you can pass pointers to structures allocated on the stack, in a shared heap etc and it all "just works" :) thanks -mike
