Re: A proposal for a General Clustering Framework

[Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh>]

Bill Todd wrote:
> 

> 
> Sending raw structures works only in homogeneous-endian environments anyway
> (though file systems do need the ability to send raw file data as
> byte-strings, since they haven't a clue what the internal structure of it
> may be and must leave interpretation up to the application).  My own
> reservations (which my impression is may be shared by others here) center on
> overheads - e.g., the arbitrary requirement for a response (though a flag
> requesting datagram-like behavior covers that)

I think we agree that one can simply send an event-type RPC call, and that
can take care of this expectation.

> and the lack of fine control
> over marshalling activity (including the potential for [distributed]
> resource-allocation deadlocks).

I'd like for you to elaborate some more on these two items:

	lack of fine control over marshalling activities

	potential for [distributed] resource-allocation deadlocks

	Thanks!

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@unix.sh

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