[ANet-devel] ANet should be a deamon...

[Benad <be...@ma...>]

I'm having a problem here. Having ANet as a library is a great idea, but it
allows more than one instance of the library to execute at the same time on
the same machine. Only one node on the network should be created per
machine, not per service.

So, ANet should be a deamon, right?

There would still be a library, simply to communicate with the deamon. This
is because process to process communication is very OS specific, and having
a library that does the job of sending/receiving the data from the ANet
deamon would really help the programmers.

Here's how it could work:

Service A   <--->  ANet lib.   \
Service B   <--->  ANet lib.   |
Service C   <--->  ANet lib.   |<---> ANet deamon <---> Network
...         <--->  ANet lib.   |
Service Z   <--->  ANet lib.   /

(you liked my ascii art?)

I'll start writing part 3 and 4 today.

- Benad