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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:13:08AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
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<pre wrap="">And I don't believe this claim is true. The reason there are tons of IPC
systems out there is that there are different tradeoffs to be made.
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and i believe that dce/rpc is, for the description that your project
gives ("fast", "message-based" etc) an existing system that is
already proven, already does what you are attempting to reinvent.
... why waste it?
i'm quite happy to write a plugin authentication module for you,
to do SASL, if that helps [as i mentioned in my initial post,
all encryption systems have been stripped out of dce 1.1 aka
freedce but the hooks have been left in]
if you like i can come up with some digital signing and/or encryption
scheme that SASL can use.
i'm also happy to write you a unix-domain-socket transport layer
plugin, too [again, as i mentioned in my initial post, there is
evidence of companies like DEC adding their own transport layers
in e.g. DECNet 3.0 so it's pretty easy to add new transports].
that'd at least get you started.
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What do you think Havoc? Would it be worthwhile to take him up on his
offer?<br>
_If_ he's right and this could be used by DBus it could possibly safe
you a lot of time implementing the proposed marshalling communication
layer.<br>
Or have you already made up your mind that this is not a viable option?<br>
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Sorry if I sound pushy, just curious :-)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
-Tako<br>
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