From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: AF_UNIX status report
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 13:03:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201104120304.GF33165@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38e33f7a-e87d-fea8-ac9e-826f94c189d4@cornell.edu>
On Nov 3 10:43, Ken Brown via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> On 10/30/2020 5:20 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Oct 29 14:53, Joe Lowe wrote:
> > > On 2020-10-29 13:19, Ken Brown via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> > > > On 10/27/2020 5:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > > On Oct 26 18:04, Ken Brown via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> > > > > > 2. I haven't given any thought at all as to how to implement SCM_RIGHTS
> > > > > > ancillary data. I could definitely use suggestions on that
> > > > > > before I start
> > > > > > thrashing around.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have only vague ideas at that point. Assuming we can replace the
> > > > > socket implemantation with the pipe implementation, what we have is a
> > > > > pipe which can impersonate the peer at least from the server side, and
> > > > > it knows the client process. This in turn can be used to duplicate
> > > > > handles. So what we could do is to define fhandler methods which create
> > > > > a matching serialization and deserialization of the fhandler data, plus
> > > > > duplicating the handles for the other process, sent over the pipe as
> > > > > admin package. This must work in either direction, regardless if the
> > > > > server or the client sends the SCM_RIGHTS block.
> > > >
> > > > This sounds reasonable.
> > > >
> > > > I have no experience with serialization. Do you happen to know of a
> > > > good example that I could look at?
> >
> > Unfortunately not. Probably we can just send the entire fhandler and
> > the recipient fiddles the content in a per-class way, kind of like
> > fhandler::dup.
>
> I'm working on implementing this, and I've bumped into an elementary C++
> question. In order to send the fhandler in an admin packet, I need to
> determine its size dynamically, given an (fhandler_base *) pointer to it.
> AFAICS, this requires something like the following.
>
> In the definition of class fhandler_base, put a virtual function
>
> virtual size_t size () const { return sizeof *this; }
>
> and then repeat this essentially verbatim in every derived class:
>
> size_t size () const { return sizeof *this; }
>
> Does this seem right? I did an internet search and didn't find anything
> substantially different, although there were several suggestions to use
> templates in various ways. I'm not convinced that using templates would
> actually improve the code, but I can do it if you think it's better.
Actually, I don't like templates that much. You could do the above, or
just always send a block of size fhandler_union.
Corinna
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-04 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-26 22:04 Ken Brown
2020-10-27 9:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-10-29 20:19 ` Ken Brown
2020-10-29 21:53 ` Joe Lowe
2020-10-30 9:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-11-03 15:43 ` Ken Brown
2020-11-04 12:03 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2020-11-05 14:23 ` Ken Brown
2020-11-05 17:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-11-05 19:01 ` Ken Brown
2020-11-05 19:54 ` Joe Lowe
2020-11-06 4:02 ` Ken Brown
2020-11-05 23:41 ` Ken Brown
2020-11-06 9:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-11-07 22:25 ` Ken Brown
2020-11-08 22:40 ` Ken Brown
2020-11-09 9:08 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-11-17 19:57 ` Ken Brown
2020-11-18 8:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-11-22 20:44 ` Ken Brown
2020-11-23 8:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-11-26 17:06 ` Ken Brown
2020-12-15 17:33 ` Ken Brown
2020-12-16 9:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-12-16 21:09 ` Ken Brown
2020-12-17 15:54 ` Ken Brown
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