[K42-discussion] os/servers/ and baseServers build...

[Robert Wisniewski]

Patrick,
     Sorry thought someone would have responded.  I know it looks odd as it
stand now.  We use to have many separate servers.  That was the intended
original implementation.  At some point, especially during the
implementation of various legacy interfaces, we had to coalesce many of the
servers that had rapid interaction and certain times (fork for example).

-bob

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Patrick G. Bridges writes:
 > 
 > On Aug 22, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Patrick G. Bridges wrote:
 > 
 > > I'm starting to try and attack building servers and server objects
 > > and don't quite understand what's going on in os/servers. It looks
 > > like some objects in os/servers/XXX are being built in baseServers,
 > > while some are build in the normal server directory (e.g. os/servers/
 > > k42). What's going on here? It looks like at first glance that
 > > baseServers package up server functionality from servers that are
 > > needed to bootstrap K42 (e.g. nfs/kfs, pty, dev, etc). Does this
 > > server then later get replaced by the actual servers once they get
 > > started or something? I haven't seen much documentation of exactly
 > > how this works in K42 yet, so I thought I'd ask.
 > 
 > Okay, to answer my own question, many key object servers are combined  
 > into baseServer, and compiled, currently, in the baseServer  
 > directory. They're not run as separate servers at all as far as I can  
 > tell. I can go from here to build submakefiles for os/servers.
 > 
 > -Patrick
 > 
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