+1 -masa ----- Original Message ----- >Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 12:26:34 -0700 >From: "Garrett D'Amore" <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, > [email protected], [email protected], > solaris driver <[email protected]> >Subject: [driver-discuss] Project Proposal: Credential Process Groups > > >We seek the endorsement of the ON, security, Kerberos and device drivers >communities for a project that seeks to add a new, extensible process >grouping facility to OpenSolaris. > >The project is called "Credentials Process Groups" (CPGs) and had a >PSARC inception on Wednesday, May 6 2009, under PSARC/2009/271. > >The project leaders are Nicolas Williams and Garrett D'Amore. > >Initial consumers of this project would be: > > - Solaris audio (Boomer) > - Solaris Kerberos > >CPGs are an extensible process grouping facility that uses cred_t for >process grouping. > >The reason for using cred_t for process grouping is to make these >process groups visible to device drivers (via cred_t accessors and in >IPC (via ucred_get(3C) accessors), that is, in contexts where it's not >necessarily possible to directly or indirectly access a proc_t. The >concept comes from the Andrew File System (AFS) concept of Process >Authentication Groups (PAGs) and is similar to Linux keyrings. > >Materials can be found in the ARC case directory, along with the issues >file and mail record: > >http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/271/inception.materials/ >http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/271/issues >http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/271/mail > >Nico & Garrett > >_______________________________________________ >driver-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
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