Re: [Iamb-dev-internal] query language

[Ken R. <kr...@qx...>]

Matt Cashner wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ken Rietz wrote:
> 
> > I guess I need to know what you have planned for B<streed>.
> 
> <blank stare>
> 
> have we not talked about this before? B<streed> is the daemon which
> handles atomic updates to the strees so we dont have to worry about data
> collisions.

Yeah, I knew that. But I wasn't sure what besides the strees
B<streed> was going to be working with. Are you planning, for
example, to have any other bookkeeping stuff, like next/last
update times, and is any of it going to be disk-based? That
"other" sort of stuff that wouldn't have shown up yet.

> like i said in my email of last night, the language i'm looking for
> direction on is the language which the sockets will communicate with
> each other via. this is low level stuff here. yes, the high level API
> will mimic IAMB::Stree.  my concern right now is the low level, socket
> level, commands.

My understanding of sockets doesn't square with your usage of
the term. For me, a socket is an IP address plus a port, used
in TCP communications. What's a socket to you? I expect it is
more general.

-- Ken