Hi Anton,
I need a bit more of explanation here for the Lib#2.
- How is it configured (openhpi.conf /openhpi.client.conf)
- Are there plugins?
If there are plugins, isn't Lib#1 = Lib#2 plus subordinate-plugin?
In that case the subordinate plugin would just be what we currently 
do in the marshalling?
Cheers,
Uli 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Anton Pak [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 12:19 PM
> To: OpenHPI-devel
> Subject: Name collision issue for daemon and baselib
> 
> Hello!
> 
> While discussing the plug-in for subordinate OpenHPI we have 
> faced API  
> name collision:
> - openhpid defines saHpiXXX and oHpiXXX functions
> - libopenhpi.so also defines these function
> 
> So it is hard to use libopenhpi.so from a plug-in code since 
> it works  
> inside openhpid process.
> 
> The first idea to resolve it was the idea of renaming functions in  
> openhpid.
> Say instead of saHpiSessionOpen we will have oHpidSessionOpen (other  
> naming schemas are also options).
> 
> I prepared a patch for this renaming. It was really huge. And 
> it also  
> broke make distcheck.
> As usual. Michael will be excited.
> 
> The I suddenly have realized that the decision of using the 
> same names was  
> not
> an oversight. Long time ago we had two options for HPI 
> library: one is the  
> library
> that talked to OpenHPI daemon via RPC, and another one is the 
> library that  
> just performed
> OpenHPI daemon responsibilities (daemonless).
> So the picture was
> 
> o) HPI App ->(linked)-> Lib #1 ->(RPC, TCP)-> OpenHPI daemon
> or
> o) HPI App ->(linked)-> Lib #2
> 
> Lib #2 included all OpenHPI daemon code except transport and 
> marshalling.
> And it provided the same interface to an HPI App: a set of 
> saHpiXXX and  
> oHpiXXX function.
> So a saHpiXXX function in base lib is RPC call for the 
> saHpiXXX function  
> in OpenHPI daemon.
> 
> Lib #1 and Lib #2 also shared the same name - libopenhpi.so.
> This option was disabled several years ago.
> 
> So the questions are:
> - Should this renaming be performed or better to find another way?
> - Should we still care of the daemonless OpenHPI library?
> 
>       Anton Pak
> 
> 

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