Re: task death notifications

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 09:46:56PM +0200, Wolfgang Jaehrling wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 05:56:03PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Either we would need an L4 extension that adds timestamping to
> > (some) messages, or, we could use another, earlier time, for
> > comparison, the time we start to receive messages.
> 
> Why not let the client pass the timestamp to the server?

We don't trust clients.  The client could guess the future time that is
necessary to pass the check.

Thanks,
Marcus

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