On Oct 21, 9:16am, Matthew Mondor wrote:
} On Thu, 31 May 2012 10:38:38 -0400 (EDT)
} Mouse mo...@rodents-montreal.org wrote:
}
} Recently we found out (PR kern/46463) that kqueue() file descriptors,
} which originaly were designed to be local process only objects,
} could be passed with
Recently we found out (PR kern/46463) that kqueue() file descriptors, which
originaly were designed to be local process only objects, could be passed
with SCM_RIGHTS messages to other processes. They probably can not be
transfered any other way (i.e. on fork() they are not inherited). So this
Recently we found out (PR kern/46463) that kqueue() file descriptors,
which originaly were designed to be local process only objects,
could be passed with SCM_RIGHTS messages to other processes. [...]
I propose to not allow sending kqueue file descriptors [...]
Or are there any legit uses
On Thu, 31 May 2012 10:38:38 -0400 (EDT)
Mouse mo...@rodents-montreal.org wrote:
Recently we found out (PR kern/46463) that kqueue() file descriptors,
which originaly were designed to be local process only objects,
could be passed with SCM_RIGHTS messages to other processes. [...]
I
On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:40:44 -0400
Matthew Mondor mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net wrote:
What I can see is that the implications of inheriting this special
descriptor are quite more complex than for normal FDs... Which makes
me think that it very well could be a design decision not to inherit
