Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> This project continues to only make the Unix domain sockets for X11
> communications automatically available in TX labeled zones. For all
> other types of zones, either the system admin or later projects from
> the teams responsible for those zone types will have to make the sockets
> available if cross-zone X11 communication is desired across them.
An aside for the record, should any of those other teams be considering
this - another implementation option would be to implement on Solaris the
"Abstract Namespace" for Unix domain sockets that Linux has implemented.
These sockets use ascii strings to represent the name space that do not
refer to filesystem paths, so could avoid having to arrange for filesystem
coordination between the zones, but would clearly need some other method of
configuring which ones were allowed to be seen in other zones. Since
X.Org recently added support for using the abstract namespace for X11
connections on OS'es which support them, this could be especially interesting
for BrandZ zones, since it would allow them to use Unix domain sockets
without having to modify the Linux version of libX11 in a way similar to
the modifications made in this case.
That is absolutely not part of this case though.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
