From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 25 12:22:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06127 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [199.184.181.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA06099 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:21:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from right.PCS (right.pcs. [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18167; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:48:21 -0600 (CST) Received: (jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id UAA16145; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:19:45 GMT Message-Id: <199611252019.UAA16145@right.PCS> 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 References: <199611242122.QAA02399@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> <199611251840.SAA21376@right.PCS> <3299F91F.59E2B600@whistle.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3299F91F.59E2B600@whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Nov 25, 1996 11:53:03 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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