Re: Security in MiNT

[Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>]

Hello!

|>What about making new system calls to store and retrieve cookies?
|>
|>At the moment, any process that wants to install a cookie in the jar
|>must either write the cookie into the memory area belonging to another
|>process, or remove the reference to that process's memory area, and
|>make a new area that's larger than the old (which is itself sightly
|>wasteful as it leaves old cookie jars lying around in memory!)
|>
|>If the cookie jar was administered by the kernel, I feel things would
|>be cleaner, and it would be a step towards making MiNT more secure,
|>too.
|>
That is an exelent idea! And even better, there wouldnt be much changes
to be made, as a lot of cookie stuff is already in the kernel!

Ulrich