Re: New proposal for fixing race conditions from Jer Noble on 2013-07-30 (public-audio@w3.org from July to September 2013)

From: Jer Noble <jer.noble@apple.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:01:50 -0700
To: Joseph Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com>
Cc: Jussi Kalliokoski <jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com>, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhgari@gmail.com>, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>, Olivier Thereaux <Olivier.Thereaux@bbc.co.uk>, WG <public-audio@w3.org>
Message-id: <A2EE5427-5D32-4F02-BA04-38735039E403@apple.com>

On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Joseph Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com> wrote:

> Just to clarify (because this discussion has been so lengthy), my understanding is this performance cost (whatever its size) is associated with *fixing* the current shared-memory model to avoid the security problems resulting from visibility of shared memory that is no-longer-owned due to neutering. It is not a side-effect of anything to do with Jer's proposed new API change. Correct?

Yes.

-Jer

Received on Tuesday, 30 July 2013 17:02:29 UTC