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SubjectRe: Doors?
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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.

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