On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 19:47 +0200, Jeff Burdges wrote: ...
Configuration
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NameService [.]dnspath socketspec [noncannonical] [timeout=num] [-- service specific options]We require that socketspec be either the path to a UNIX domain socket or an address of the form IP:port. We also require that that each *dnspath be a string conforming to RFC 952 and RFC 1123 sec. 2.1.
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I asked Yawning today if this part should (a) use a socket to a process that already exists, or (b) exec a helper program that communicates over a pipe tied to its stdio. He mentioned the PT spec does both, which I interpreted as going either way at the time. In fact, the PT spec literally requires both stdio and a socket, which sounds overly complex for this.
Anyways, if we wanted to to exec a helper program, the configuration might look something like : NameService [.]dnspath [opts ..] exec helper_prog [opts ..] We could simply speak to the helper over a pipe tied to its stdio.
Jeff