PrivSep and portability

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:38:11AM -0800, Kevin Steves wrote:
> we currently support access rights and ancillary data fd passing.  we
> should probably add I_SEND/RECVFD support, but i haven't seen anyone ask
> yet.  same for shm support vs. mmap().

Ummm.  File descriptor passing is also not possible on oldish SVR3s
(except for some STREAMS drivers)

> for platforms that cannot be supported, i think we will just fatal() on a
> required non-supported function if someone enables privsep.  

Fine with me - as long as it builds :-)

gert
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