svn commit: samba r13317 - in branches/SAMBA_4_0/source: lib/messaging libnet

[tridge at samba.org]

Andrew,

 > Create a new function messaging_client_init() which can be used when
 > we don't have a server messaging context.  We should replace the
 > datagram messages with stream sockets in this case, so we don't have
 > to create a unique socket.

I still don't quite understand what you're getting at here. How would
using a stream socket instead of a datagram socket avoid the socket
creation? All stream versus datagram does is determine:

1) whether the OS provides the message boundaries, or we provide them
   ourselves

2) whether we have to do connect/accept calls

In both ways, SOCK_STREAM sockets are more complex (and slower) to
deal with. I just can't see any advantages for our messaging code
unless perhaps we want to send very large (multi MB) messages.

Cheers, Tridge