Re: True multiuser?
Re: True multiuser?
- Subject: Re: True multiuser?
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:07:44 +0100
While it's an interesting question, it's in no way related to Cocoa
development.
I suggest you take it to some other mailing list, or re-phrase it to at
least touch the Cocoa frameworks...
Regards,
j o a r
On 2003-12-22, at 13.42, Peter Estrand wrote:
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We all know that OS X isn't capable of true multiuser yet: It's not
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possible for several users to interact, at the same time, with
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applications running on an OS X system. There are no third-party addons
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that can fix this: There is no "Citrix Metaframe for OS X" or "OS X
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terminal server" available. Lots of people hoped for Panther and/or
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"Apple
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Remote Desktop" to solve this problem, but it didn't, and people was
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disappointed. A "-NXHost" option was available in NeXTStep, but doesn't
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work anymore (why?).
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So, true multiuser is impossible, but *how* impossible? Ideally, I
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want to
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be able to use old Xterminals to connect to a OS X machine. This could
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be
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achived by letting the WindowServer communicate with an Xserver
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instead of
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a graphics card. The WindowServer + graphics driver would be an X11
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client
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in this case.
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Also, as I understand it, there has to be one WindowServer process per
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user. How much impossible is this? I've noticed that there is no
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DISPLAY
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variable any longer. Is WindowServer using a fixed mach messaging
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port, or
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would it be possible to have several WindowServers on different ports?
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