Making a module manager?

[Peter Van Roy]

Denys Duchier writes:

> At the moment, that's probably your best bet and there is _no_ info to
> help you along.  I am working on a much improved design, but that
> won't help you until the next release.  I am working on a design that
> takes advantage of "kernel" threads to perform potentially blocking or
> time consuming operations: this will be useful for many applications,
> in particular for a better resolver that supports proxies - the design
> that I have in mind for the resolver will also apply for the module
> manager.

Sounds interesting -- can you explain more precisely what the goals are
of this new design?  Are you thinking of implementation security?  It
seems that this is a good topic for discussion on the hackers group.

Peter

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