Re: new library, libcaps

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

On Nov 26, 2003, at 5:43 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :I see that... I am not quite sure how to actually do anything with
> :this... :)
>
>     Nothing, yet.  Wait for me to move the primary service/client API
>     into the kernel.  Then the only thing userland will need to mess
>     with is the abstracted LWKT messaging API.
>
> :Its still interesting to look at the code and see what's going on but 
> I
> :wanted to
> :write code that was purely [or as purely as possible] using lkkt_ 
> calls
> :without
> :Unix Domain Sockets and such in the way.
>
>     Yes, that is precisely the goal.  libcaps uses unix domain sockets
>     for the messaging pipe but those are fairly cumbersome.  I am as we
>     speak creating a general set of system calls to implement a 
> generalized
>     LWKT messaging system that userland can use both in single-threaded
>     environments and in multi-threaded environments.

Since that is what I mainly want to explore I should wait until you've 
reached
some level of completeness I suppose :)


Dave