[openbeos] Re: Networking : R5 or BONE
- From: "John Gabriele" <jandl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 03:30:06 EST
>En réponse à John Gabriele <jandl@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>Hmmm, I don't know exactly the issue there, but if I understood correctly,
>it _is_ the Nettle Library (with some more wrapping around).
>Just have a look at file:///boot/develop/headers/be/NetworkKit.h
>Funny it's also on BeBits, didn't know that =)
I think Be hired Howard and subsequently Nettle was morphed
into the Net Kit.
Now, as far as the OBOS's R1 networking, as I (partially) understand it:
-- yes, there will be a net_server (like with BeOS R5)
-- no, there won't be "BONE" per se. Although there will be more
kernel-mode network code than BeOS R5 had. Of course, that
won't affect the networking API or binary-compatibility.
-- There will (of course) still be 2 ways to write network code for
OBOS: the sockets API and the Net Kit API.
-- net_server will still be a user-mode process (as with BeOS R5)
however, most of the work it gets done will be delegated to
the kernel-mode network stack. (The BeOS R5 network stack
ran in user mode as part of the net_server). (???)
I think that if I can get that last bullet sorted out (confirmed?),
I'll know what to put in the faq.
---j
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