Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:48:06AM +1100, Michael Lucas-Smith wrote:
> > I personally think having translators start automatically for a MIME like > > system would be extremely impressive. As I said the last time mimish things were discussed, I think the right thing to do is to add property lists to inodes. Then you could have a single interface for handling all attributes you'd like. > And to make it even more impressive, make it take full advantage of > the security mechanisms the hurd can provide, eg no user ids (is that > the term I'm looking for? > > Personally, I'm paranoid just playing a mpeg or viewing a ps file, but > what options do I really have? That's a very different issue, I think. And easier. You should be able to wrap up an mpeg player in a shell-script like #! /bin/sh (drop-uids decode-mpeg) <"$1" >/dev/audio The idea is to open the input and output files, using your normal uid and its associated permissions, and then start a subprocess for decoding the data with no uids, that only needs to accesses stdin and stdout. /Niels _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
