[openbeos] Re: SK: interacting modules
- From: Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 22:59:56 +0200 (MET DST)
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Axel =?iso-8859-1?q?D=F6rfler ?= wrote:
> It seems that I was wrong:
> I've written a small test programm that opens a live query and waits 10
> seconds for an incoming message; that's what it got:
[...]
> And that's obviously a flattened BMessage!
Well, that is not very surprising, as you're supposed to get a BMessage.
> That message was triggered by a live query update from the original BFS
> (since ours doesn't implement live queries right now).
> But its query_open() function got the same port id as I specified in my
> test app, so there is no other entity involved.
OK, that is convincing.
> Another hint is the fact that I tested this on a Dano system; the
> flattened BMessage format isn't compatible with the old one there (and
> starts with 2BOFQ) - so it's the kernel which generates that BMessage,
> and it's still generating old style flattened BMessages under Dano :-)
>
> So, the kernel *is* able to produce flattened BMessages!
So what does that mean? I guess, that I can neither implement BQuery nor
the node monitoring functions until there is a kernel that provides some
functionality for that pupose. :-(
CU, Ingo
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