Re: named ports - trivfs translator!
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:43:37PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: Hi! I'm thinking about implementing a small server. What is the easiest way for a client to get the mach-port for the server? You can advertise your msg port to the proc server with the proc_setmsgport RPC (send it to the port you get with getproc() from libc). Then a client can get the port with the proc_getmsgport RPC (requires the PID of the server process). This is a bit like the Mach nameserver, except you access by PID rather than some name. The canonical way to do it on the Hurd is to attach the server to some node in the filesystem, that means, you write a translator which you attach with settrans, or you write a program that installs itself as a translator somewhere. libtrivfs helps a lot for that. (For the latter, see how pfinet installs the tunnel device in pfinet/tunnel.c (setup_tunnel_device). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:18:11AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:54:28PM +0200, alexis chauvin wrote: i've just installed hurd and i'd like to know how to use the man pages The easiest answer is probably not the one you're looking for. What did you use to install the Hurd? If Debian, you need to apt-get install the man pages. You also need to install the man-db package to get the man(1) command. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
Re: named ports - trivfs translator!
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: The canonical way to do it on the Hurd is to attach the server to some node in the filesystem, that means, you write a translator which you attach with settrans, or you write a program that installs itself as a translator somewhere. libtrivfs helps a lot for that. (For the latter, see how pfinet installs the tunnel device in pfinet/tunnel.c (setup_tunnel_device). I went with the latter and it seems to work. Thanks. Next question: Take a look at the following scenario: 1. allocate object 2. client does something with object 3. deallocate object I have created a port class with a custom clean routine. I want the clean routine to be called if the object are NOT deallocated in step 3 (for example, the client dies). Is this possible - or do I have hold an internal state for every port? regards, johan -- Johan Rydberg, Net Insight AB, Sweden, +46-8-685 04 00 $ ON F$ERROR(LANGUAGE,ENGLISH,IN_MESSAGE).GT.F$ERROR(NORMAL) - THEN EXCUSE/OBJECT=ME ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
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