Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:28:38 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Sounds like one needs in addition some mechanism for servers to "charge" clients for > consumption. X certainly knows on behalf of which connection resources > are created; the OS could then transfer this back to the appropriate client > (at least when on machine).
Definitely - and this is present in some non Unix OS's. We do pass credentials across AF_UNIX sockets so the mechanism is notionally there to provide the credentials to X, just not to use them - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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