Re: Bind update

[Galen Sampson <galen_sampson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Do you envision all this being handled by daemons running as pure kernel 
> :threads?  It would be cool if DragonFly could have a standard API for 
> :asynchronous DNS resolutions.
> :
> :And given all the discussion in FreeBSD-current in the last few days 
> :about the changes to make /bin and /sbin dynamic so that NSS works 
> :correctly, I would be interested how this could be better achieved in 
> :the DragonFly world?
> :
> :Richard Coleman
> :richardcoleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>     No, the demon is definitely a job for userland.  However, the kernel can 
>     certainly be responsible for providing naming, rendezvous services,
>     and message passing services for the IPC mechanism.
>
>     I'm developing along these lines.  I actually already worked up a 
>     userland library to do IPC rendezvous but it became apparent that the
>     only right way is to implement the rendezvous in the kernel, so I've set
>     that aside and I am now putting together a syscall API to do the
>     naming, rendezvous, and message passing services for the IPC mechanism.

For those who aren't clear what rendezvous is could someone provide a 
link and/or explanation?

Regards,
Galen