Turning pinfo security on

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sat Sep 27 03:03:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:36:05PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>BTW, now that your sigpacket includes the sending pid, the commune stuff
>could be simplified and avoid calling winpids. It knows whom to talk
>to (but it must still double check for security).

Yeah.  That's one of the reasons I added it.

>Another benefit of your method!

It makes me wonder why I waited three or four years to do it this way.
I guess, with my infallible intuition, I always thought it would slow
things down.

cgf



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