On 01 Jun 1999 20:23:42 +0200, Lars Gullik Bj°nnes wrote:
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>We will use UNIX sockets, so security will not be a problem.
>(the normal file permissions will apply to the socket)
>| How'll do that for non-UNIX LyX? IIRC neither emx/gcc nor cygwin/gcc
>| know UNIX file permissions. But it would indeed be a great thing, if
>| you shipped a new securitity enabled tcpip stack alongside with LyX.
>|
>| Please correct me, if I'm mistaken here.
>
>:-) You are of course absolutely correct.
>
>But hasn't also pipes been a problem for emx and win32?
>
>Anyway I think we can solve this for emx and win32 too, they must have
>something equivalent to (unix) sockets that can be used for
>interprocess communication.
I'm not a programmer, the only experience comes from some simple
porting I've done. But I think there are of course sockets and at least
the OS/2 API has (named) pipes with extended functionality.
The issue here being networked access to and modification of files by
work groups:
There are indeed security problems; all implementations, I can think
of, use password protection for file access/modification on a dedicated
server or peer with server functions.
But please, experts to the front here.
Cheers,
Arnd
