On Thursday 17 March 2005 17:01, Timothy Miller wrote: > The plan is to allow unpriveleged processes to do any evil thing they > want, as long as it can't compromize system stability. With some > clever use of mmap, we can restrict which pages of the graphics > memory are visible to a process, but we're unlikely to be able to > prevent the process from reading or clobbering someone else's > windows.
We're still working on that. I think we ought to make a valiant attempt to solve the window security problem, so long as it doesn't need more hardware support than the ownership test. We will make some friends that way, and hey, it might even be nice. > The key is that the process cannot lock up the engine or > initiate arbitrary DMA, so there's no security/stability compromize. Yep. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
