On 8/2/05, Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To understand the MUMPS issue, think of the HL7 package. Since there > is no accept call, you are forced to write a program that listens for > connections on whatever port you choose to use for HL7, then once > another system has connected, that SAME program is busy handling the > connection (running the application protocol), and so all further > attempts to connect to that port will be rejected until the > connection is closed. In the HL7 package, such a process is called a > listener and, in particular, a "single threaded listener". The HL7 > package also supports what is known as a multi-threaded listener, but > sine it is impossible to implement such a thing natively in MUMPS, it > is run as a service under VMS, which is the equivalent to running > under the control of [x]inetd under Unix. Ok, but could MUMPS call OpenSSH, GPG ans Rsync to connect client and server?
If that is possible then the user does not have to install xinetd. best Zeno ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
