[bind10-dev] interaction between 'active' module list and multi-process modules

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:28:36 +0000,
Stephen Morris <stephen at isc.org> wrote:

> I don't like the idea of hiding the extra processes, I think that will
> lead to complications in the future.  Instead I propose that we
> clearly separate the concept of modules and processes. From the user
> point of view the system comprises different modules and they interact
> with modules the same way they do now.  Internally, the system
> associated a number of processes with each module, and translates
> module actions to actions on all related processes.

I generally support this idea (btw in our recent terminology "modules"
in this context are called "components").  There can be several ways
of actually implementing this, but I think it might make sense to let
the boss process keep track of the underlying processes of each
component (I believe it was designed so, and is actually partially
implemented so) and have bindctl get a list of running components
(when it needs to know that) from the boss process.

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JINMEI, Tatuya