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Subject: Re: [RFD]: Egor's proposal for a Cygwin server process
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 00:06:16 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "egor duda" <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
To: "cygdev" <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [RFD]: Egor's proposal for a Cygwin server process


> Hi!
>
> Thursday, 31 May, 2001 Corinna Vinschen vinschen AT redhat DOT com wrote:
>
> >> a communication between client and server is restricted to local
host
> >> only, so, i suppose, we can take "mixed" approach -- use named
pipes
> >> on nt/2000 and shared memory on w9x.
>
> CV> As I wrote in my previous mail, it's essential to be sure about
> CV> the process which calls the server. Faking of pid, uid and gid
> CV> must not be possible!
>
> something similar was done in my cygserver via
> ImpersonateNamedPipeClient(). that's a clear benefit of named pipes
> before shared memory.

This is where I'll pop up and say...
COM provides benefits here: AFAIK it's got impersonation capabilities
for NT, and AFAIK degrades gracefully on 9x.

The fact that it's got difference under-the-hood implementations for NT
and 9x would aid us here.

Rob

>
> Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet
2:5020/496.19
>
>
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