On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:21:01 +0200 Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > At the last #debian-games meeting there was also a short discussion > about global highscore management. There has already been discussion > about that on this mailing list, and there is a wiki page with a > recommendation[1]. However, there is no standard apart from how to > properly open a setgid highscore file. Just wanted to add a link [2] (for the archives) back to the discussion with fedora about suid file handling we had a few months ago. > There have also been ideas about a peer-to-peer protocol to share > highscores[2]. But perhaps it is also possible to write a dbus > specification for highscore announcements and queries, so that a dbus > listener can manage the high scores? This would mean games do not > have to use setgid permissions anymore. > > Comments? > > [0] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Games/Upstream > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2011/06/msg00061.html > [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2011/05/msg00024.html (this was the first i found) thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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