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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:02:04 +0400
From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: [RFD]: Egor's proposal for a Cygwin server process
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Hi!

Thursday, 31 May, 2001 Corinna Vinschen vinschen AT redhat DOT com wrote:

>> a communication between client and server is restricted to local host
>> only, so, i suppose, we can take "mixed" approach -- use named pipes
>> on nt/2000 and shared memory on w9x.

CV> As I wrote in my previous mail, it's essential to be sure about
CV> the process which calls the server. Faking of pid, uid and gid
CV> must not be possible!

something similar was done in my cygserver via
ImpersonateNamedPipeClient(). that's a clear benefit of named pipes
before shared memory.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19