[haiku-appserver] Re: communication
- From: Adi Oanca <adioanca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-appserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:47:05 +0300
Hi,
Axel Dörfler wrote:
>>I've been mulling over how to fix PortLink properly, and there is
>>another issue with PortLink as it is. There are occasions where a
>>message protocol has been changed on one side and not the other, and
>>the client or the server crashes, hangs, or starts using weird data.
>>There needs to be some way to reduce the problems with attachments.
>>Here's what I propose: scrap PortLink for something else which we
>>know
>>works: BMessage, Dano-style. It's a massive changeover, but I think
>>it
>>would also be very much worth it.
>
> Sure, that would solve lots of the problems. OTOH it's a lot more
> expansive, too. BMessages would need to be changed a lot, too, since
> they currently can't be merged together for a simple port write.
How about a BMessage-type kind of thing that can be grouped?
This would solve all(?) our problems.
> We own the code, so (apart from bugs), we only really need to care
> about backwards compatibility.
It would solve this too.
bye,
Adi.
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