Re: Hacking gnumach to track parental relationship of tasks

[Richard Braun]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:58:24AM +0200, Richard Braun wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:50:57AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Richard Braun, le Thu 12 Sep 2013 10:57:25 +0200, a écrit :
> > > I suggest we simply disable the trap versions.
> > 
> > Ah, right.
> > 
> > I don't have the time to dive into the details, but in the end, couldn't
> > we switch to making task_create rather a proc RPC, rather than relying
> > on process nicely calling the proc proc_child RPC after having created
> > the task? proc would be doing the "kernel" task_create RPC on behalf
> > of the process. The main proc server would actually make a kernel RPC,
> > a sub-hurd proc server would nicely ask for it, thus not having to be
> > root.
> 
> I completely agree with that method.

On the other hand, see what Justus did with notifications on task
creation, which also looks like a valid method to me.

-- 
Richard Braun