See http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/plugin-architecturefor some more details. TVL
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:15 AM, n179911<[email protected]> wrote: > > In > > > http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/multi-process-resource-loading > , > > all I/O in Render Process (WebKit code) is sent to Browser Process and > > Browser process is download the resource from the source. > > But what about Plugins (flash) which runs inside RenderProcess? How can > > those I/O requests being forward to Browser Process via chromium IPC > > mechanism? > > Plugins run in their own separate plugin process. > > > Flash plugins is closed source and it can make more than HTTP request. > > Flash can make RTMP request for video. > > How does IO in plugin being handled? > > Requests made through NPAPI get routed back through the browser's HTTP > layer. Other requests go directly to the system, as plugin processes > are not sandboxed. > > (In some sense, getting plugins out of the renderer process is a > prerequisite for making renderer processes sandboxable.) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
