nanogui: what is the difference between srvfunc.c and client.c?
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] what is the difference between srvfunc.c and client.c?
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
31 May 2005 11:22:57 +0100
Message-Id: <F5CD60E9-D7B2-4A01-A50D-0B6697AFD2E3@linuxhacker.org>
On 31 May 2005, at 04:58, Alain Volmat wrote:
> You will see that depening on LINK_APP_INTO_SERVER (defined in
> config file)
> either srvfunc.c or client.c will get compiled.
> If you set LINK_APP_INTO_SERVER=y, then srvfunc.c will be used,
> otherwise
> client.c will be used.
client.c/srvnet.c form an RPC system. When LINK_APP_INTO_SERVER=n the
functions in client.c are called by the client, but all they do is to
pack up the function arguments and transmit a message to the server
which causes the corresponding wrapper function in srvnet.c to be
called which in turn unpacks the arguments and calls the srvfunc.c
function as if the client was running inside the server. IIRC it was
actually possible to have multiple clients running both inside the
server and outside the server at the same time with microwin-aph
(look at the NANOWM_LINKED_IN and INTERNAL_NXEYES_DEMO stuff for an
example of running multiple clients inside the server).
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