[sugar] [OLPC Security] P_READ_LOGS

Mikus Grinbergs mikus at bga.com
Mon Aug 11 08:45:42 EDT 2008


> The easiest way to present logs, especially failure logs, is to make them
> available through the standard Journal/Datastore interface.  For example,
> we have some agreement that when an Activity fails to launch, the failure
> should appear as such in the Journal time-view, connected to an object
> representing the log file for that failure.  This log object has a "text"
> type, and so can naturally be opened by any Activity that accepts this
> type.  No additional permissions are required.  The user is responsible
> for determining when to provide both sensitive data and P_NETWORK to the
> same Activity.

I find the Journal interface to be cumbersome.  I also do not
believe the Journal ought to be cluttered up with "footprints"
a kid would probably not be able to do anything about.   -1.

mikus



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