On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 13:36:14 +0200
Martin Kühne <mysatyre_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Martin,
> Having done my own research, no it can't. Also, the way it is designed
> is a rather silly approach to security which is much less revealing
> about today's idiotic way of writing software by including tens of
> millions of SLOC of dependencies instead of doing the one thing for
> the one job.
pledge(1) is not a security-feature, but a hardening-feature. Keep that
in mind. The secure design of software (i.e. separating into sub-components
that do one thing and do it well) is still up the vibe-coder.
However, you bring up a good point. I mean, even we here at suckmore
are guilty of this. Why exactly do we need to have one dwm.c for dwm?
One st.c for st? Especially in regard to st we could easily split the
terminal emulation and rendering part. If we based the rendering on
simplistic primitives, it would be relatively easy to port it to other
platforms.
What it all brings up is the issue of IPC. Can you people suggest
your favourite approach to IPC? If not, maybe we could look into
writing a very simplistic library (name-suggestion "sippy" :P) which
builds on top of UDS and implements a very simplistic messaging
protocol.
> I personally find the idea of polluting our source code for this
> appalling and suggest the wiki.
We also had the idea yesterday on Telegram to let the OpenMacOS™ guys know
and just help them apply the pull request to the st port.
Cheers
FRIGN
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FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de>
Received on Mon Jun 06 2016 - 14:39:04 CEST