X11 MIT-SHM Extension across zones [PSARC 2007/500,

Darren J Moffat darrenm at opensolaris.org
Fri Sep 7 03:20:35 PDT 2007


Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>> I am sponsoring this fasttrack for myself, and have
>> set the timeout to
>> Thursday, Sept. 13.   It requests a patch release
>> binding.
>>
>> This project enhances the X server to allow the
>> MIT-SHM extension to operate
>> between clients in non-global zones and the X server
>> in the global zone.
> [...]
> It's obvious enough that I would expect the answer is "yes", but since
> I don't see it explicitly stated, has this been coordinated with those
> involved in Trusted Solaris (who might want to be assured it raises no new
> issues for them)?

It is called Trusted Extensions (TX) now.

TX is the reason this is being done in the first place - but then I knew 
that because I was privy to the design discussion.

-- 
Darren J Moffat



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