On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:11 +0800, Wei Shen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 6/20/07, Neal H. Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > (1) Add a set of new environment variables, e.g.
> PFINETSERVER for the pf_inet server and PFLOCALSERVER for the
> pf_local server.
>
> We should have consistent naming between node names and
> environment variables. The default node names
> are /servers/socket/{2,pfinet}, etc. Perhaps have
> SERVERS_SOCKET_PFINET be the name of the environment variable
> to use.I wonder how you plan to implement this. The library does not use the #define symbol in practice; it uses /servers/socket/%d and fills in %d from the first argument to the socket() call. It seems to me that an implementation which makes assumptions about how people construct names in /servers is unreliable. What about a different strategy, one more "hurdish"? For example, run the program in a pseudo-chroot which overrides the behavior of nodes inside /servers? Thomas
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