Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Doors? | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:08:24 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <13998.25123.353468.276108@watcher.ptim.com>, Matthew Brown writes: +----- | Alan Cox writes: | > > I was wondering if anyone knows if a doors implementation is available | > > in linux? these are a concept developed by Sun for their experimental | > > (and now dropped) Spring OS. They are currently available in Solaris. | > | > And scheduled to be dropped according to the docs 8) | | AFAIR not so much scheduled to be dropped as declared as 'we may | change this; don't use it! this is only for internal Sun programs!' +--->8
Meanwhile, in answer to the original question, this is from BUGTRAQ:
> One candidate to this IPC mechanism is the doors API on Solaris. It is > fast and has a call where the server can get the credentials of the > caller. There is an alpha-quality implementation for linux available. > See http://www.rampant.org/doors for more information.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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