On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:27:46PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > Keep in mind the way of using an environment variable is all > implementation details right now and abstracted by ConsoleKit at this > point. E.g. if we could securely tag a process with a cookie and ensure > that it's inherited by child processes and said child processes cannot > change it we're good. And then we can use this mechanism instead of the > rather ugly way of using environment variables. Unfortunately, to my > knowledge at least, the Linux kernel don't yet support something like > this. Wouldn't the kernel keyring mechanism work? (See keys.txt in the kernel docs.) Or perhaps I'm not understanding something. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
