[tor-bugs] #3049 [Tor Client]: Allow a Tor process to be ‘owned’ by a controller process

Mon May 23 03:36:37 UTC 2011

#3049: Allow a Tor process to be ‘owned’ by a controller process
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 Reporter:  rransom      |          Owner:  rransom           
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  needs_review      
 Priority:  major        |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.2.x-final
Component:  Tor Client   |        Version:                    
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Comment(by nickm):

 I still like it.  One thing -- is it right for there to be more than one
 "owning" controller at a time?  The "ownership" metaphor implies
 exclusivity, but the TAKEOWNERSHIP command doesn't seem to prevent an
 arbitrary number of controllers from having "ownership" at the same time.
 I think that's not an unreasonable thing to do, but we sure want to
 document it, and document how TAKEOWNERSHIP interacts with
 __OwningControllerProcess: Otherwise somebody will get surprised.

 Also, I think we ought to have a way to relinquish ownership, though that
 can be another patch.

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