[Splashy-devel] splashy talking over unix domain sockets

[Otavio Salvador]

Tim Dijkstra <tim at famdijkstra.org> writes:

> * The credential thing only works on linux (and BSDs, but not in the code I wrote now)
>   Not sure this is a problem actually... Aren't we targeting linux 2.6 only?

I think that we won't use it in others systems besides Linux and BSDs.

> So now for the questions:
>
> Is splashy supposed handle strings which are several commands separated
> by newlines? Looking at the code I think it does now, but my code
> currently breaks that assumption. It accepts only one command per
> message (with a maximum size of 1024 char btw).

Looks ok to me. If we need to pass two commands we call it twince.

> Oh, final question, what was the precise symptom of the 'initramfs bug'
> again?

Splashy itself restart twice and abort when setting fonts.

> So I got commit access to svn, but do you usually sent patches for
> review? I'm a bit reluctant to just commit and break trunk without 
> discussion first;)

Commit and then we start to fix remaining issues ;-) 

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