Re: Privatizing 'linc' ...

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman sun com>]

Michael/All:


We lobbied hard for the use of existing API in gnopernicus, for its I/O, and I 
think we still need such an API.  I don't think ORBit2 is the place for such an 
API, and I'm not sure what alternative GNOME APIs should be used instead.  
Certainly not ORBit API for the braille stuff.   What would you recommend instead, 
something in g_iochannel? 

- Bill



>Hi there,
>
>	So - as I'm working on completing ORBit2's threading support; I keep
>wondering why linc was made a public API when it was so half cocked.
>
>	I'd really rather like to privatise linc inside ORBit2; it seems linc
>is mentioned (outside of ORBit2 / libbonobo ) in these at-spi and
>gnopernicus.
>
>	It seems the single at-spi use in my test can be trivially replaced
>with a CORBA_ORB_perform_work - which is what it should have been to
>start with.
>
>	The gnopernicus code uses the linc_protocol stuff; although it could
>use the (strangely exposed) LINCProtocolInfo method pointers to do this,
>it instead hooks internal symbols out of 'linc' to achieve it's
>nefarious ends ;-)
>
>	I _believe_ that the new getaddrinfo support in linc should relegate
>the problems that this was introduced to solve only to the really truly
>broken Solaris versions whereby setting a global variable is/was the
>only way to achieve sane gethostbyname behavior.
>
>	So ...
>
>	What do people think ? is this doable ? - it would bring really major
>benefits for linc / ORBit2 - and failing moving it inside - it'd
>_perhaps_ be best to cast 'linc' adrift as a library, do a sed on linc
>and import it into ORBit2 anyway ... so ?
>
>	Thoughts, tears, flamage ? - also privatisation wrests control from
>vast, inefficient government stymied, centrally run ...
>
>	Regards,
>
>		Michael.
>
>
>[ a grep for linc on my machine ]:
>./gconf/gconf/gconfd.c:471:/* FIXME this is just paranoia now since we
>use linc_get_tmpdir() */
>
>./at-spi/test/test-simple.c:793:                linc_main_iteration
>(FALSE);
>
>./gnopernicus/braille/test/remote.c:61:linc_protocol_get_sockaddr (const
>LINCProtocolInfo *proto,
>./gnopernicus/braille/test/remote.c:501:    proto = linc_protocol_find
>(IP_TYPE);
>./gnopernicus/braille/test/remote.c:508:    restricted_host = (struct
>sockaddrin *) linc_protocol_get_sockaddr (
>./gnopernicus/brlmon/tester.c:37:linc_protocol_get_sockaddr (const
>LINCProtocolInfo *proto,
>./gnopernicus/brlmon/tester.c:157:    proto = linc_protocol_find
>(IP_TYPE);
>./gnopernicus/brlmon/tester.c:162:    remoteServAddr = (struct
>sockaddrin *) linc_protocol_get_sockaddr (
>./gnopernicus/srcore/srbrl.c:66:linc_protocol_get_sockaddr (const
>LINCProtocolInfo *proto,
>./gnopernicus/srcore/srbrl.c:72:linc_protocol_destroy_addr (const
>LINCProtocolInfo  *proto,
>./gnopernicus/srcore/srbrl.c:300:    remote_proto = linc_protocol_find
>(IP_TYPE);
>./gnopernicus/srcore/srbrl.c:309:    remote_braille_addr = (struct
>sockaddrin *) linc_protocol_get_sockaddr (
>./gnopernicus/srcore/srbrl.c:399:    brlmon_proto = linc_protocol_find
>(IP_TYPE);
>./gnopernicus/srcore/srbrl.c:408:    remote_brlmon_addr = (struct
>sockaddrin *) linc_protocol_get_sockaddr (
>./gnopernicus/srcore/srbrl.c:471:       linc_protocol_destroy_addr
>(brlmon_proto,
>./gnopernicus/srcore/srbrl.c:475:       linc_protocol_destroy_addr
>(brlmon_proto,
>./gnopernicus/srcore/srbrl.c:489:       linc_protocol_destroy_addr
>(remote_proto,
>./gnopernicus/srcore/srbrl.c:493:       linc_protocol_destroy_addr
>(remote_proto,
>
>
>-- 
> michael@ximian.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>

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