[openbeosnetteam] Re: Haiku internship

Waldemar Kornewald <wkornew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler wrote:
> >> Yup, agreed. That would be the first task. I can already name two
> >> things:
> >> * sysctl() is not supported by our netstack and the plan is to
> >> replace
> >> it with a nicer mechanism (BMessage, and from kernel: KMessage).
> > I think a simple ioctl() interface is the way to go for now.
> Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that one, too. But for the net_server 
> we'd use
> BMessage. Also, for notifications from kernel land I'd prefer 
> KMessage 
> (like it is used for node monitoring).

Yes, I like that, too. The KMessage is foremost thought as a 
notification mechanism at this point anyway.

> >> * PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER is a function call, thus you can't
[...]
> > Well, he could even fix it if he needs it, I don't have to do
> > everything, really :-)
> I just want to use our time more effectively (thus the "you can get 
> around
> that"). Andrew should not do netstack and kernel development in 
> parallel if
> that means he'll not be able to finish the netstack in time. Let's 
> put less
> critical tasks at the end of the task list.

Of course, it depends on what he needs. I don't think we'll come across 
pthreads much at all while working on this.

Bye,
   Axel.

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