Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:43:31 +0200 From: Paul Schenkeveld <fb-hackers@psconsult.nl> To: tho <thomas.fossati@tin.it> Cc: Paul Schenkeveld <fb-hackers@psconsult.nl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just a wild idea Message-ID: <20020924174331.A37898@psconsult.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020924013159.A371@xyz.com-and.com>; from thomas.fossati@tin.it on Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:31:59AM %2B0200 References: <20020922161453.A13323@psconsult.nl> <20020924013159.A371@xyz.com-and.com>
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Hi Thomas, On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:31:59AM +0200, tho wrote: > hi Paul, > > have you considered using a "file descriptor passing" based technique > (section 14.7 of Stevens' UNPv1) ? > > you may have a process with suser privs which creates file descriptors > (e.g. socket bind()ed to a particular address and port) on demand and then > passes back the descriptor to the requesting (unprivileged) process through > a unix domain socket I know this technique but the real issue is about many pieces of standard software, like BIND named, sendmail, syslogd and so on. So this technique, although very usable for new projects, will not solve this problem. > tho Thanks for your answer, Paul Schenkeveld To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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