Porting HAL to FreeBSD

Joe Shaw joeshaw at novell.com
Mon Jun 21 13:29:31 PDT 2004


On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 23:46 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> I wonder if we couldn't adopt what is being used for gnome-keyring
> here.  Out-of-the-box, g-k doesn't work on FreeBSD due to the way
> credential passing on the socket is done.  However, I sent patches to
> the maintainer to fix this:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142373

This is definitely the way to go.  Right now it's using the Linux-
specific SO_PEERCRED socket option.  You should be able to apply
something like this to dbus.

Joe



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