[interfacekit] Re: some questions on BApplication

> Hi!
> 
> I had started to do a patch BApplication, moving the connection to 
> the app_server to the "connect_to_app_server()" method, adding 
_init_interface_kit(), setup_server_heaps(), etc.
> But I noticed that we are sending to the app server also the app's 
> signature. Is that really needed? I tought that the object token 
> would 
be sufficient.
> Can someone explain, please ? 
IIRC, in the early stages of the app_server and the prototypes, the app 
signature was the main way to determine whether or not the application 
was still running. Every three seconds or so, the app_server does a 
quick check to make sure that all applications it has in its list are 
still valid, and it would check via thread name. It wasn't quite good 
enough, so it checks for the app's port. It's been kept around for 
server debugging purposes, though. It probably should be kept around 
because it makes debugger server-side applcation stuff *much* easier.

--DW

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