On Mon 26 Nov 2007 22:16, Igor Stoppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 13:11 -0500, ext Jesse Guardiani wrote: > > [snip] > >> This would mean that the Kagu backend process would be a daemon (aka a >> service, depending on your education environment). > > If possible, please no, not another daemon. We are already plagued by a > large number of (mostly unnecessary!) daemons (i don't remember on top > of my head how many exactly, but it's a 2 digits figure) that have > trickled over the years in the standard stack. > > The metacrawler is a good example of why you don't want to write a > daemon. > > To write a daemon is to ask for trouble since your sw will use memory, > cpu time and power all the time. Also bugs will be more critical.
In the beginning of this year (2007) I wrote a tool called httpcmdd http://www.iki.fi/too/sw/httpcmdd/ which I planned to use another, perl based program on N770/N800. It is a persistently sleeping, standalone daemon which uses just a kilobyte or a few of (userspace) memory and does not do anything unless request comes in. The main reason I have not developed The Application for it is that Localhost Inet Socket Connections Does Not Work in Offline Mode! (with a close second lack of time). A small httpcmdd script could check whether a daemon for a particular purpose is running and if not, start it. Then it could redirect connection to the port of that daemon...if connections worked. In this case the "connection refused" problem I mention below exists. With the "unix socket" method I mention in httpcmdd web page and small modification in server code could "fix" even that problem. > What's wrong with something that runs on-demand? A separate gui client which starts the server and browser on demand?...but LISCDNWiOM!! ;) and, when server exits after a (long) idle timeout browser just gets connection refused -messages... if browser could be made able to launch such a server in this case that would be nice... > Unless you rely on having dbus to start and stop the service ... that > would probably be ok. > Any good solution for running http-based applications offline and on-demand (user just using browser bookmarks) on these Internet Tablets would be nice. Maybe there is enough interest to make this happen ? > > -- > Cheers, Igor Tomi > > Igor Stoppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (Nokia Multimedia - CP - OSSO / Helsinki, Finland) _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
