[Splashy-devel] splashy talking over unix domain sockets

[Vincent Amouret]

Hello,

Le mercredi 16 août 2006 à 12:04 +0200, Tim Dijkstra a écrit :
> OK, I couldn't resist trying to get splashy to talk over unix sockets,
> instead of udp;) I think I have it mostly working, but have a few
> questions and comments.
> 
> Advantages:
> * This uses abstract sockets, which means they live in a name space which 
>   doesn't live on a filesystem, only in the kernel. This means, I think, that 
>   we don't have any propblems in intramfs.
> * Will of course only work locally.
> * We can get the credentials of the calling program, so we can deny access to
>   non-root users. Or only to the 'splashy' user, or whatever.
> Disadvantage:
> * 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 didn't know the abstract namespace of the UNIX sockets, it looks good
and it's certainly the best way.
I tried to implement an UDP socket but it doesn't work at boot time,
while networking hasn't started (so no progress bar before ~70% of the
boot process).



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