Quoting Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
Implementing better security will probably be a trade off against other features. With less security features people will complain. If better security is implemented then someone will complain "But you took away feature X" or "Whats security got to do with playing Doom 3". On the plus side better security will be a feature that will differentiate the card from others. Just my 2c worth. Tim. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
