[Fwd: Re: Fwd: Daemon for managing dialup internetconnections now]

[Waldo Bastian <bastian ens ascom ch>]

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Subject: Re: Fwd: Daemon for managing dialup internetconnections now
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:09:39 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Bjoern.Kahl" <Bjoern.Kahl@kiel.netsurf.de>
To: kde-devel@kde.org
CC: koss@napri.sk, gnome-kde-list@gnome.org, bastian@ens.ascom.ch,rhp@zirx.pair.com


On 24-Jun-99 Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> I do believe that the CORBA approach for connection information is
> bloated.  When the GNOME hackers wanted to do this I advised them on
> this matter.

  I do not know anything about corba, but what I read on kde-devel makes me
  believe, you are right.

> You basically want a standard location on the file system to keep
> track of this information by a root-ran process.  No need for anything
> else.

  My way is, haveing a daemonprocess running and a linklibrary with
  compiled in information where to find a standart configfile which
  says how to conntact the daemon. Of course, the librarycall allows
  you to specify an alternative location for the configfile.(See other
  posting or example-clients in the source.) 

> If you want to reuse code for ppp, look at
> gnome-network/gnome-ppp/libgnome_ppp which has all the implementation
> bits that you might want to use.

  Would be really nice. I have defined a way in my NetMgr-protokol to
  get some thing like cps-rate, but nothing written that get the
  infomation from the system until now :-( .


 Bjoern

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