Re: [RFC] NSMessagePort and the NSPort hierarchy

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 05:24 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> > It wouldn't be enough, though, since the distributed notification 
> > center
> > in -base would still be shared. This _could_ be fixed by having
> > NSLocalNotificationCenterType use NSMessagePort by default, though.
>
> Yes/no ... certainly the NSLocalNotificationCenterType should be local 
> to
> the machine, but the documentation says nothing about it being private
> to a user.  I'd consider making it local a bugfix, but making it 
> private might
> be considered to be introducing a bug by MacOS-X people.

I hacked in a quick fix to get it to use the loopback network interface 
so
that distributed notifications are only locally available (unless NSHost
dictates otherwise).