On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Patrick Walton pwal...@mozilla.com
wrote:
It's fine to pass channels over channels as long as those channels don't
cross process boundaries.
Out of interest, why can't you pass channels over channels across a process
boundary?
Rob
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On 19/06/15 00:40, Patrick Walton wrote:
In an effort to keep this sort of thing from happening again, I'd like to
suggest that all new code that spawns threads and passes channels or boxed
objects over channels not be allowed to pass review until audited for
multiprocess safety up until the
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Patrick Walton pwal...@mozilla.com wrote:
In theory you can use cmsg on POSIX systems to send channels over
channels, by treating channels as file descriptors. I tried this first, and
I believe it actually worked well on Linux. But on Mac I ran into all sorts
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org
wrote:
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Patrick Walton pwal...@mozilla.com
wrote:
In theory you can use cmsg on POSIX systems to send channels over
channels, by treating channels as file descriptors. I tried this
I think I'm convinced it's worthwhile to try harder at getting
cross-process channels-over-channels working. It would result in a lot less
churn, for sure. The fact that they have to be transmitted out of band is
an interesting serialization challenge, but it shouldn't be insurmountable.
I think
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