FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: net_server and general questions

[Jérôme Duval <korli@xxxxxxxx>]

Just to clarify in my head : 

why do you need a background process for prompting the user ? Your new 
connections go through a net lib which is still in userland and can provide 
this 
prompt when needed. Or the current API doesn't permit this ?

Selon Waldemar Kornewald <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx>:

> to make PPP dial-prompts possible I need some background process that watches
> for new connections being established and then prompts the user for the
> password (if no password was supplied) or if the user just wants to confirm
> each connection attempt it asks to press "Connect" (or change the password
> before connecting). You should know an equivalent dialog from Windows. There
> are other tasks for this background process, too, but that is not important.
> May I add a net_server background process that takes over this job? I would
> create a very simple add-on API so it is not limited to PPP.
>