On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:14:54PM -0700, Shawn M. Emery wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:18:52AM -0800, Glenn Faden wrote: > > > >>Shawn M. Emery wrote: > >> > >>>I also want to combine functionality of the CCacheServer and gssd. So > >>>is there an up-call mechanism for domain sockets as well? > >>> > >>No, for up-calls you need to use doors. > >> > > > >kgssapi->gssd currently uses RPC over loopback -- not far from Unix > >domain sockets. So it may be doable, but still, it'd be much better to > >contribute some #ifdef solaris code to MIT than use any IPC other than > >doors for upcalls. > > > > In a separate e-mail thread with them, I had suggested a plugin design, > but did not commit to this as a requirement for the project.
I don't think a plugin is needed here. The particular flavor of IPC to use is not something one should decide on a whim and configure -- it's very OS-specific.
