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Closed thoughts,
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Nico Schottelius, 2005-05-XX (Last Modified: 2005-06-14)
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1. using SIDs (service IDs) to communicated with external processes
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This was a very bad idea: The external program could exploit us by
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specifying an arbitary big SID (as the SID is simply the index
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of our service array).
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2. using function pointers to handle messages
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Seems like it works fine. We have handlers for each
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message (do_*), which are called by client and server.
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The function pointer is simply to read or write, dependending
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if it is the client or the server. This way we don't need
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to rewrite communications parts.
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3. Using different storage
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First all services were saved in a service array of the size
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MAX_SVC. This has been replaced by a double-linked list.
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Have a look at serv/list.c.
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4. Using sockets for IPC (between cinit forks)
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Works very fine, though we have to mount a temporarily fs before.
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5. Removing the maximum number of direct dependencies
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Is not planned, as it looks like the current number (32, see
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conf/max_deps) seems to be much more than needed. And if
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one really needs more, simply increase conf/max_deps.
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6. Using a directory params with 1,2,3,4 for argv
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This would make substituting a single argument easier, but only
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if you know which one you have to change. This would add
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an additional dirent(), which would not replace the current read(), but
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add more open() and close()s. As this does not seem to make live
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easier for system administrators, this is not implemented.
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If you really like it, hack client/exec_svc.c
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7. Using TCP/IP sockets
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This would be a very small change in the code, but would allow
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to control cinit over network. Since there is no authentication,
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this would be highly insecure. On the other hand, cinit
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could control the parallel start of many hosts, if they
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should become 'one' computer at the end. As this is not needed
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currently, it's not implemented.
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