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Tomas Hruby
fb31513b00 LWIP,NETSOCK - lwip uses asynchronous protocol
- libnetsock - internal implementation of a socket on the lwip
  server side. it encapsulates the asynchronous protocol

- lwip server - uses libnetsock to work with the asynchronous
  protocol
2012-03-02 15:44:48 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
d4b72e81b2 Cleanup servers to make GCC/Clang a little happier 2011-09-08 13:57:03 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
5582aae6d6 LWIP - removed __unused where inappropriate 2011-05-25 09:41:19 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
c51cd5fe91 Server/driver protocols: no longer allow third-party copies.
Before safecopies, the IO_ENDPT and DL_ENDPT message fields were needed
to know which actual process to copy data from/to, as that process may
not always be the caller. Now that we have full safecopy support, these
fields have become useless for that purpose: the owner of the grant is
*always* the caller. Allowing the caller to supply another endpoint is
in fact dangerous, because the callee may then end up using a grant
from a third party. One could call this a variant of the confused
deputy problem.

From now on, safecopy calls should always use the caller's endpoint as
grant owner. This fully obsoletes the DL_ENDPT field in the
inet/ethernet protocol. IO_ENDPT has other uses besides identifying the
grant owner though. This patch renames IO_ENDPT to USER_ENDPT, not only
because that is a more fitting name (it should never be used for I/O
after all), but also in order to intentionally break any old system
source code outside the base system. If this patch breaks your code,
fixing it is fairly simple:

- DL_ENDPT should be replaced with m_source;
- IO_ENDPT should be replaced with m_source when used for safecopies;
- IO_ENDPT should be replaced with USER_ENDPT for any other use, e.g.
  when setting REP_ENDPT, matching requests in CANCEL calls, getting
  DEV_SELECT flags, and retrieving of the real user process's endpoint
  in DEV_OPEN.

The changes in this patch are binary backward compatible.
2011-04-11 17:35:05 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
dca25a1b39 LWIP - the lwip server
The server implements inet-like interface to vfs and drivers. The core
functionality is contained in the liblwip.
2011-04-07 07:44:11 +00:00