[haiku-development] Re: Compositing window management

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:37:57 +0200

Le jeudi 16 juin 2011 à 11:20 +0200, Stephan Aßmus a écrit :
> > ... but it opens a security can of worms :p
> 
> I don't quite see what you are seeing. Can you elaborate? Do you think 
> Qt is less secure because it potentially/optionally draws client side? 
> If anything, I would think one can make the drawing mechanism *more* 
> secure. Or to put it in better words: The app_server drawing probably 
> has heaps of holes right now. Moving most stuff client side makes it 
> much easier to secure this aspect of Haiku than trying to do so while 
> keeping so much server side. There are plainly much less points of 
> failure then.

Not so much drawing in itself, but rather cloning accelerants
everywhere. They can potentially screw up the whole RAM with boggus DMA
request...

François.


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