Re: thread ids, task ids and subsystems

[Niels Möller]

Maurizio Boriani <address@hidden> writes:

> >>>>> "Niels" == Niels Möller <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Niels> However, there's one problem: You want to be able to give
>     Niels> task A the right till kill task B at some later time, even
>     Niels> if task B won't cooperate. To do this, one needs to talk to
>     Niels> the task server and convince it that one is allowed to kill
>     Niels> B. Which is what task ports and port rights is about.
> 
> ok, mine was a stupid idea, reinventing wheel.

Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps one could implement all operations but the
analogue of kill -9 as rpc:s directly to the task in question. That
might simplify the task server's access control.

/Niels