When you saw child process, are you fork then exec'ng? Can you not just use a pipe to communicate back to the parent process and have it deal with the socket code. I imagine it might be possible to fork and exec and not use a pipe, but that's one possible solution.
I think the problem is that you need to get all SSL context information into the child process, which I'm not exactly certain how to do.
Glad to hear BincIMAP is progressing.
Cheers,
bs.
On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 06:51 AM, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
Hi, everyone. Some updates here.
VERSION NUMBERING -----------------
The latest Binc release was 1.0.25-2. I'll be making some changes to
version numbering now that I know better what changes are likely to happen
are which aren't. :-)
The scheme we'll use is this:
<major>.<minor>.<bugfix>-<dist>
Minor will alter between odd and even numbers. Odd numbers mark unstable
development releases. Evens are stable.
major : Complete redesign \_ Different programming language / concept \_ Major license/distribution changes
minor : New major features / enhancements \_ Loadable C++ class modules support \_ Support for new authenticators \_ Privilege seperation, etc..
bugfix : Minor new features and primarily bugfixes
dist : Changes to the way Binc is distributed (spec file changes, documentation updates, etc)
MILESTONE ---------
The 1.0.26 release is turning out to be such a great mile stone that I
will be releasing it as 1.1.0 and not 1.0.26. So 1.0 will be left as a
"stable" branch and we will continue development on 1.1 (unstable), only
fixing bugs on the 1.0 tree.
When we are confident that 1.1 is ready for production, the project will
move from beta to production stage 1.2. Core development work will then
continue on 1.3, and so on.
NEW SITE --------
The domain bincimap.org has been registered and will soon take over for
bincimap.andreas.hanssen.name serving the Binc IMAP website at a new
stable location. The .name domain will still point to the server currently
hosting the site (aka infeline,org), serving as our first mirror. Anyone
interested in mirroring the site I encourage to contact me (bad english!!)
;)
NEXT RELEASE ------------
Ok, leaking some stuff about the 1.1.0 release:
- Will support privilege seperation - checkpassword invoked daemon - Loadable module support - Initial contributions: loadable modules that add support for several extensions like IDLE, ID, SORT. These contributions will serve as examples on how easy it is to add extensions as a completely seperate task/project while leaving the Binc IMAP core development untouched.
The 1.1.0 release will be out next week. If anyone can help me with
figuring out how a child process can continue SSL communication after the
parent did the SSL_accept, then 1.1.0 will probably be out sooner rather
than later.
Good weekend everyone!
Andy :-)
