On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Jordan Brown (Sun) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would this process involve listening on a network or local port? In other > words, is the depot server started a general purpose server, or is it in > some fashion tied tightly to the requester (like talking via a pipe instead > of a TCP connection)?
For my prototype hack, it would have to be a tcp connection since that's how the depot server communicates. > Opening up a listening socket, even a local one, is security-impolite. This is really just a prototype, and yes, I agree it is security-impolite. > It also sounds kind of inefficient, moving all those bytes through an > "extra" process and some kind of IPC. Yes, but it does allow re-use of all of the existing depot code. I was discussing the "no on-disk package format" with Stephen and Bart at Community One. I'm just trying to get a better feel for what some of the ideas have been. -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list pkg-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
