[slime-devel] Re: unix domain sockets

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.