Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 04:26:38PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
http://people.redhat.com/berrange/libvirt/libvirt-arch-remote-2.png
Thought provoking.
It makes me wonder - should there be (or is there) a generic way to
remote C shared library calls? This sort of thing exists in other
languages (eg. Java RMI).
The trouble with C is that there's soo many to choose from :-) There's
CORBA, XML-RPC, DBus, SunRPC to list but 4. The latter is interesting
because you can auto-generate the C stubs for client & server...if only
we can find a way to then layer it over SSL ?
On the subject of SunRPC, the implementation in glibc in fact does allow
you to replace the basic send/recv operations, so it would* be possible
to write a back end which talked over (say) gnutls.
On the other hand, XML-RPC has mindshare, has a nice enough C library
(xmlrpc-c: http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/) and supports SSL**.
Rich.
* Or so it seems from looking at the code, but I'd need to write a test
client & server to be sure.
** Only checked this on the client side, haven't verified that the
server side can support SSL yet.
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