[slime-devel] Re: unix domain sockets

[R. Mattes]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:39:13 +0100, Helmut Eller wrote:


> 
> Yes, that would be possible and the needed changes on the Lisp seem to
> be small.  But I think unix socket support, or security in general,
> isn't very important for a development tool. 

Yes, but Slime (or more correct: swank server) is used in some web
framework(s) and probably is meant to be running in production code
on webservers (where security _is_ an issue). Hence, a way to harden
access to the swank server would be very welcome!


 Cheers Ralf Mattes

>  The external helper
> programs add some complexity and I think it's more important to keep the
> system simple than to add security features.
> 
> Helmut.