CYGWIN SERVER: Some questions

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 22:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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> I have some questions about our "Cygwin server project" which is
> about to start as soon as we have discussed how to implement
> the client/server protocol and how to manage differences between
> NT and 9x based OSes.
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> The most important question IMO is, how do we design the communication
> protocol? It should combine all qualities which can't live together in
> reality but only on marketing papers:

> - Sockets (Pro: Platform independent, Easy to use, Con: Secure)
To address this con:
SSPI for NT allows impersonation, and for 95 we simply don't call the NT
functions :}.

Rob

> - Shared memory (Pro: Platform independent, Fast, Con: Secure)
> - Named pipes (Pro: Secure, Con: Platform independent)
> - DDE (Pro: Platform independent, Secure, Con: Easy to use???)
> - RPC (Pro: Platform independent, Secure, Con: Easy to use???)
> - COM (Pro: Platform independent, Con: Easy to use???)
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