Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:19:44 -0600 From: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: looking for an idea Message-ID: <199611252019.UAA16145@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <3299F91F.59E2B600@whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Nov 25, 1996 11:53:03 -0800 References: <199611242122.QAA02399@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> <199611251840.SAA21376@right.PCS> <3299F91F.59E2B600@whistle.com>
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Julian Elischer writes: > > Hm. I think this is probably the right track. What you want is some way > > for the process on the other end of the pipe to prove it's identity to the > > server. > > I was thinking more along the lines of the ownership of the fifo :) The server owns the fifo, not the client; it's the client's identity that we want to discover. I suppose you could arrange things so that the client requests a callback to a fifo it set up - but then you need to worry about the client re-directing your callbacks to random locations. -- Jonathan
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