Re: inventory

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl@conservativecomputer.com>]

> So although I'm sure we'd all like to converge on a standard rsh delegation
> shell (rshsh) that wisely chooses a peer for running the next instruction
> in its command stream, rshsh would be a user mode tool which would only
> require a shared file system and configured rshd.  The internals of rshsh
> would not be on topic here, although we would appreciate the announcement
> and name under which we can find it on freshmeat.

It's not that simple. rshsh has to interface to your queue system, if
you have one, and you might want to wisely choose a peer without tying
yourself into a particular transport. So we should define a service or
API for finding out the right peer, and then rshsh and other tools can
use that API.

Most clustering issues are similarly muddled.

And no, other people in other OSes haven't solved these resource
issues very nicely, but it would be worth looking at what they've
done.

-- greg

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