Re: [gtk-list] Re: How safe is GTK?

[Matt Kimball <mkimball xmission com>]

On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 05:47:14PM +0000, Sebastien Carpe wrote:
> Well, i'm not the best gtk expert in da world, i would even dare say
> i'm about the worst, since i only subscribe this list for interest
> purpose only at the moment, but, in terms of security, what about
> splitting your code into a daemon that would be run as root, where you 
> exactly control what is done and have the Gtk front-end you've dreamed 
> about run under the user ID, with a rather simple socket protocol for
> the client/server talk. 

Yes, this is indeed the safest way to do it.  (And, therefore, the
right way to do it).  But, is there anything known to be particularly
unsafe about GTK+, or it is just considered to be unsafe because of
the large amount of code present?

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Matt Kimball
mkimball@xmission.com