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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:49:41 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Eliminate cygwin_getshared?
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:33:51AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:18 AM
>> To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: Eliminate cygwin_getshared?
>> 
>> 
>> I was just perusing shared.cc and came across this ill-begotten
>> function.  It's cygwin's answer to eliminating
>> security-through-obscurity.
>> 
>> Is anyone aware of a use for this function?  I can't think of any
>> reason to export a pointer to cygwin's shared memory area.
>
>I can. That _might_ allow us to get cygipc to piggy back on cygwin
>without becoming part of the kernel. It wouldn't be any more available
>to your proprietary customers than it is now, but I don't see that being
>an issue (it's a LGPL not GPL IIRC?).

In that case, we can invent an interface for dealing with that.

Exposing the shared memory for anyone in the world to use, doesn't seem
like the way to accomplish this.

cgf