Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:26:24 -0800 (PST) | From | Jason Lango <> | Subject | Re: Doors |
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Alan Cox writes: > And scheduled to be dropped according to the docs 8)
Which documentation are you referring to? I haven't heard any mention of Sun depricating the doors interfaces, although the only official documentation of that interface that I've seen are the man pages (not counting an ancient Sun Dev News article).
Matthew J. Brown writes: > AFAIR not so much scheduled to be dropped as declared as 'we may > change this; don't use it! this is only for internal Sun programs!'
Solaris 2.5 didn't document the doors interfaces, aside from the cute "you might have seen this using truss" man pages (are these the ones you're talking about?). The Solaris 2.6 and (2.)7 man pages have enough detail to, well... write a compatible version for Linux.
One might easily be led to believe that the interface might change based on the "Stability: Evolving" note at the bottom of the man pages, however people that I've talked to at Sun have told me (unofficially) that the interface is not likely to change. This leads me to believe that Sun is essentially a stodgy company (and therefore the interface is to be trusted). Hey, is this mic on? ;-)
In all seriousness, Sun has put quite a bit of development effort into using doors for various system services, e.g. syslog, nscd, keyserv, libthread, etc. I doubt that the interface will go away any time soon. (Plus, of course, the doors interface is pretty cool and tunable, as the paper on my web site will tell you. ;-)
- J
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