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- Submitted-by: schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
-
- daveb@ingres.com (Dave Brower, DBMS hack, [510] 748-3418) writes:
- | The way we'd like to get it is to have the system put the effective
- | uid of the message sender in the header that comes when we receive the
- | message.
-
- | (a) we're only doing what is "fast";
-
- As described, it isn't slow. It can also be optional. In BSD, only
- sendmsg would need to do the extra work, while send, sendto, write can
- continue as always. Surely POSIX can invent something comparable.
-
- | (b) we're only doing what is has prior art;
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- V10 sends uid.
-
- | (d) we're punting this to the network API folks...
- | (e) it's too hard to do over a network.
-
- Realistically, there's a difference between sending messages between
- machines and between processes on the same machine. Why cripple local
- ipc for the sake of similarity with network ipc?
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- Volume-Number: Volume 26, Number 45
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