Re: [libchannel] Control procedures

2007-07-11 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Ok, I think I figured out a proper solution, for clarity I will reiterate the entire solution. It's a lengthy mail, but please do read it and tell me what you guys think about it. We want to implement a .defs file with control procedures, which can ofcourse be independant of libchannel. The only

Re: [libchannel] Control procedures

2007-07-10 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
"Neal H. Walfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree with Pierre, please provide some examples. Ah yes, examples, examples. I've mostly been going by the following passage from an old archive mail about libchannel written by Marcus (http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20020130.174030.

Re: [libchannel] Control procedures

2007-07-09 Thread Neal H. Walfield
I agree with Pierre, please provide some examples. I suspect that if an object implements a wider interface, then the added methods should be written up as a regular mig interface file. That's what mig is there for: the dirty work. As the new routines extend the old interface, just call the basic

Re: [libchannel] Control procedures

2007-07-09 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Carl Fredrik Hammar dies 09/07/2007 hora 22:04: > we want to be able to dynamically load in channel classes into a > channelio translater (at start-up) that can handle RPCs that are > unknown by libchannel and channelio Could you give examples? Curiously, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open

[libchannel] Control procedures

2007-07-09 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hello, I'm currently thinking up how channel's control interface (a la ioctl) will look like and I need some input. I have a fairly good idea of how the backend will look like in libchannel itself (more on this once the following is resolved.) But getting dynamically extensible IPC for it is a b