linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

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Message-ID: <20150421073855.GA20838@sig21.net>
Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2015 09:38:55 +0200
From:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> I do.  Implement something like my old SCM_IDENTITY proposal, which is
> kind of like kdbus metadata, opt-in, over UNIX sockets.  Except that I
> never proposed most of the absurd metadata items that kdbus is
> proposing, and I also suggesting doing it over plain old UNIX sockets.

I'd like to point out that the DBus spec describes a fairly
standard per-connection authentication mechanism.
It seems that userspace DBus doesn't need per-message metadata.


Johannes
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