the more i think about it.. yes.. you're right and i feel like a dummy about it. .i *am* trying to recreate a filesystem! This whole thing lead me to get into filesystem design.. shucks, you'd imagine that would be enought to say 'hey, what the f**ck do you think you're doing!"

Initially I was considering simply using the filesystem- gids, actualy accounts on the box (linux), etc . They could log in via a web interface, ftp, whatever. Thing is, this idea freaked out my sysadmin. There will be anything from hundreds to thousands of users per implementation (yes this will be opensourced, thus grinded, remade, and cleansed by the hands of.. uh.. ) -

This system will serve sensitive data. Having this layer of abstraction pretty much posing as a filesystem, would help that tainted data is of the least sensitive nature...

To tell the server what file they want to see info on, the tainted data is just an id for a file. The number itself means nothing to the os. It's not a path, not an inode, etc.

The idea to further the app before optimizing is very helpful, thank you so much. it makes sense to me. it really helped me from going insane. further, that is.

In reply to Re^2: can a perl script act as a daemon to serve data in its symbol table? by leocharre
in thread can a perl script act as a daemon to serve data in its symbol table? by leocharre

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