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Re: Defualt socket server overriding


From: Neal H. Walfield
Subject: Re: Defualt socket server overriding
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:07:43 +0200
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At Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:30:02 -0700,
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 16:20 +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> > When we are just interested in
> > overriding a small parts of the environment and the rest represents a
> > reasonable default, this may be fine.  Such an approach is, however,
> > completely contrary to POLP.  I think the right direction is private
> > name spaces, which can be achieved by passing capabilities.  That was
> > the other part of my suggestion.
> 
> Private namespaces are another excellent idea; they are perhaps harder
> to work into the current framework unless there's a trick I haven't
> thought of.

As I don't think you specifically addressed it, I'll repeat my main
suggestion.

One of the best private name spaces that we have, I think, is the
capability name space.  My proposal was to do the following:

  PFINETSERVER=fd:3 myprog 3</path/to/pfinet

Thus, the shell translates the symbolic name `/path/to/pfinet' in its
own naming context.

Neal




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