Re: D-BUS versus GDOMAP (WINDOWS users please note)

[Alex Perez]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Rogelio Serrano wrote:

> > IMO what would be good would be to write a proxy class to 
> > handle security 
> > issues over DO (a server would only vend these proxies rather 
> > than vending 
> > objects directly), and write easy to use gui and command line 
> > tools for 
> > configuring policy and security tokens for applications.  The 
> > NSConnection 
> > class could then be trivially modified to check that, when 
> > setting a root 
> > object for the connection, the object was an instance of the 
> > security proxy 
> > class.

> Hmmm... DTE? Amoeba like capabilities? A user space security 
> server? Selinux?

The World Is Not A Linux Box(tm). You're suffering from this shortsighted 
view of the world, so I will remind you gently that GNUstep needs to run 
properly under many non-Linux environments. D-BUS' ultimate goal /is/ to 
be cross-platform. It also integrates with SELinux, so once again your 
idea is in no way unique, and I urge you to not to do such a perposterous 
thing. D-BUS has no dependencies. You are mistaken. Read the website at 
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus where it states this in a 
sentence in no uncertain terms.