Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:28:46 +0100
From: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
To: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo.moya@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk,
        javier@collabora.co.uk, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, lennart@poettering.net,
        kay.sievers@vrfy.org, alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk,
        bart.cerneels@collabora.co.uk, sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:47:39AM +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > - slow readers: dropping packets vs blocking the sender. Although
> >   datagrams are not reliable on IP, datagrams on Unix sockets are
> never
> >   lost. So if one receiver has its buffer full the sender is blocked
> > instead of dropping packets. That way we guarantee a reliable
> > communication channel.

This sounds like a terribly nice way to f*ck the entire D-Bus system by
having one broken (or malicious) desktop application. What's the
intended way of coping with users that block the socket by not reading?


-David L.
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