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[Stephen Browne]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 10:43, Darren J Moffat wrote:

> Brian Cameron wrote:
> > --begin quote--
> > 
> > I had to fix a Trusted JDS issue where things like trash:// burn://
> > computer:// etc weren't able to work inside local zones. The problem was
> > that a per zone D-Bus session wasn't running. Once we got a per zone
> > D-Bus session running the problem was fixed.
> > 
> > The D-Bus system bus is still inaccessible inside zones though but that
> > could change in the future as there is work in progress to make global
> > zone Unix sockets accessible inside zones. Stephen knows more of the
> > details about that.
> > 
> > --end quote--
> 
> LSARC 2008/506 appears to be the case that covers this.  It appears that 
> it could be made to work for the D-BUs system bus UNIX domain sockets 
> too.  However I don't think that case should be extended to do so as 
> some analysis of the sensitivity of the information on the system bus 
> may be needed first.


Right.  Which is why even if we can do UDS across zones for dbus, its
more likely that I will implement some other proxy mechanism for
specific dbus system messages (using the existing pipes between the
stripe and the zoned xagents) if and when the need arises.

Stephen.



> 
> -- 
> Darren J Moffat
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