[chaos-devel] Project Chaos.NET update

[Henrik Hallin-M1 <he...@ca...>]

Hi everyone,

For those of you who aren't reading the svn list, here's a short update:

*) The IPC mechanism has been updated and reworked a couple of times. :)

*) An event concept has been added for servers to use to notify their 
clients about state changes (this is used for keyboard events by the 
console server).

*) The console server now supports multiple consoles with keyboard event 
handling.

*) Cluido now reads commands and echoes them.

What needs to be done I think is:

*) Improve stability of the whole system, e.g. allow clients and servers 
to die without storm dying too. Allow clients to exit cleanly if the 
service goes away. Allow servers to correctly dispose of resources 
associated with a client when the client goes away. In short, make 
things not crash. :)

*) Improve cluido and make it do something useful. I think we will need 
some kind of TTY server in the middle somewhere. But that can come 
later. First we need VFS, but that can come later as well.

*) Discuss libraries and their structure.

*) Security.

*) Fullscreen and graphics drawing support in the console server/library 
+ tornado! :)

-- 
Henrik Hallin
Casper Minisystem AB
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