[ale] starting point recommendations

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:13 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 10:24 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > I have a strong need for a network daemon. Due to portability reasons it
> > will need to be coded in C (not an area I am familiar enough with).
> 
> 	Does it need to be a standalone daemon?  Can it be something that's
> simply forked out of inetd / xinetd?  The later will be far far simpler,
> especially if you are expecting multiple connections (otherwise your
> daemon will need to manage it's own tasking / threading) or if the load
> it going to be reasonably light.


Hmm. Good point. This will not be a heavy use process. It needs to be
able to accept a data request for a running process (output UID and PID)
and also be able to send a kill to a PID. As such, the data coming in
must be secure and from known sources only. The gotcha on this is it
will also need to run on a thin client with an NFS mounted / dir. I need
to verify if xinetd is even running on that platform. If I don't have to
handle threading, woohoo!. One less thing to code.
> 
> > I am looking for recommendations from the C coders on the list for "best
> > of breed" books to point me down the path to solid, secure network
> > daemon coding in C for only Linux environments. I have K&R (the bible -
> > duh!) and "Practical C Programming" by Steve Oualline (O'Reilly) (seems
> > a bit useful but no network discussions). 
> 
> 	Mike
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