Re: boot server executables vs. execable executables

[chrisf@sour.sw.oz.au (Christopher Fraser) writes:]

>As an aside, how does the waiting for boot servers to initialise
>themselves currently work? I remember someone mentioning this on the
>list a little while ago but can't remember the outcome ... Does it
>mean boot servers have to coded differently to ordinary servers?
>I can't find an instances of this in the server code I've looked
>at so far ...

Some folks have listed various ways it's handled. In addition, a lot of the
tedium is hidden by namer_lookup(), who does a sleep/retry loop within that
function.

                                                Andy
Received on Tue Dec 20 15:04:31 1994