[2946] in Release_Engineering
Palladium Query
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sun Nov 8 18:37:48 1992
From: epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 18:37:40 -0500
To: jdaly@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: rel-eng@Athena.MIT.EDU
As per usual please enclose $250 consulting on Palladium work....
(Other items I work for cheaply like ice cream)
>1. What DCE services does palladium use?
>
> Palladium relies upon the DCE environment as a whole.
Palladium was written in a layered approach so that any service could in
theory be replaced without affecting anything else. The services which
are currently in use include:
threads (for the scheduler)
rpc
name service
We used this feature to debug subsystems when DCE was not working so
well.
Note: As DCE is shipped, all libraryies will be required. For instance,
rpc relies on nameservice and threads.
>2. Is it really required that palldium get these services from DCE?
>
> (tenative yes)
See above
>3. If not, what needs to be done to the build scripts to
> "glue in" these services from another source?
>
> (?)
I don't remember exactly, but various libraries would need to be
changed. (These are all documented somewhere). In particular the
mit.v2/if directories contain the "service dependent code".
Ezra
