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Re:Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into C... by barrybe on Monday December 12, 2011 @03:18PM (#3344780)
NaCl is nice and all, but it's better to have something that works perfectly fine on top of Javascript/HTML5, rather than only inside NaCl.
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Re:Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into C... by cheald on Monday December 12, 2011 @03:22PM (#3344794)
HTML5/Javascript can't do raw socket operations, which is the big obvious downside here.
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Re:Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into C... by wmf on Monday December 12, 2011 @03:34PM (#3344838)
NaCl intentionally has the same sandbox, same security model, and same I/O capabilities as JS. In this case, NaCl would still be limited to XHR or WebSocket.
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Re:Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into C... by cheald on Monday December 12, 2011 @03:40PM (#3344849)
Ah, I didn't know that. How does naclssh do it, then? It seemed like it was going far more low-level than the standard sandboxed security.
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Re:Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into C... by DougBTX on Monday December 12, 2011 @03:51PM (#3344892)
From the snippet you posted above, it looks like it depends on a "websocket-to-socket proxy".
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Re:Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into C... by cheald on Monday December 12, 2011 @07:28PM (#3345731)
Aha, okay. Misunderstanding on my part, then!
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Re:Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into C... by bdonlan on Monday December 12, 2011 @06:12PM (#3345471)
Sure, but they can also add a new API for raw socket operations.
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Re:Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into C... by burgerbrain on Monday December 12, 2011 @07:14PM (#3345696)
This would undoubtedly be a bad idea. There is a reason it doesn't already exist.
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Re:Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into C... by bdonlan on Monday December 12, 2011 @07:38PM (#3345770)
I'm not saying open it up to just anything, but if this is for ChromeOS, they could certainly grant access to manually-installed extensions (not extension gallery extensions) and/or to OS components.
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Re:Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into C... by krallja on Monday December 12, 2011 @09:53PM (#3346094)
"Install this app* to get 10 free cows in FarmVille!"

* Note: App may include port scanner. Do not look directly into the operational end of the port scanner.

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Re:Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into C... by calcnerd256 on Monday December 12, 2011 @03:49PM (#3344883)
but a proxy can
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