On 4 Feb 2002 at 10:30, Mensing, Joerg wrote:

> > Any interest in a port to Novell NetWare?
> >
> Do you know any open source project, that is not interested in other ports
> as long as it does not produce too much extra efforts ;-)

Well, I suppose the "extra effort" also depends on the person doing the port. :-(


> > What kind of memory requirements does the kernel have?
> >
> It uses shared memory for communication and for monitoring console
> activities. The amount of memory strongly depends on parameters for
> CACHESIZE. 

Are you using mmap or work-alike, so that different processes (not threads) access the 
same memory block?  

Is the kernel a monolithic process with multiple threads, or multiple processes? I ask 
this from the Win32 perspective, rather than the Linux perspective.

> All new stuff is C++ coding.
> Exceptions yes (unfortunatly since they got a bad reputation due to lots of
> compiler features...) RTTI currently forbidden - when coding startet on AIX
> there was just CSet++ and we uses the minimum feature set (i.e. no
> <dynamic_cast>...). Anyhow it would increase the size of EACH class
> instance, even those that do not need RTTI at all...

Well, this might knock off this idea completely. Metrewerks is the compiler of choice 
for 
NetWare right now, I'll have to check and see how well it can handle this on NetWare. 
The NetWare OS has limitations beyond those of the compiler.


> > For the C client library. Is multi-threading supported (win32, linux)?
> Yes for ODBC it is used, but the runtime calls are serialized by an
> extrernal mutex.

Are you saying that the only client access on Win32 is via ODBC, and that there isn't 
a 
native DLL available that works "at a lower layer"? 

I'm thinking specifically of Python and Zope, where we'd like to process multiple 
simultaneous database requests (not serialized) on both Windows and Linux.

Also, the client would have to work on NetWare too, so probably the Linux client 
library 
could be ported.

> By the way, Potsdam bei Berlin,Germany is not that fare away ;-)

Ah, our "sister city". ;-)



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