Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-2.0: privileged port connections

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 13:06, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> Ian Pratt wrote:
> > For Xen 2.x, unix domain sockets would be too much of a pain to
> > implement over Twisted. Kurt's approach gets us closer toward 'secure by
> > default'.
> 
> That just tells me you don't know twisted
> (putting my "Twisted upstream developer" hat on..)
> 
> Replace current reactor.listenTCP(port, protocolFactory)
> with reactor.listenUNIX(path, protocolFactory).
> If there's code that assumes TCP things (transport.getPeer()
> to give IP addresses and ports etc), those may need to be fixed,
> naturally.

Thanks, I couldn't figure out why exporting the consoles over a domain
socket wasn't working :-)  Turns out we're using .getPeer().

I think perhaps we didn't use twisted as best as we could have so I
agree with that it's going to be a fair bit of work.

Regards,

-- 
Anthony Liguori
Linux Technology Center (LTC) - IBM Austin
E-mail: aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx
Phone: (512) 838-1208




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