new library, libcaps

[David Leimbach]

On Nov 26, 2003, at 5:43 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote:

:I see that... I am not quite sure how to actually do anything with
:this... :)
    Nothing, yet.  Wait for me to move the primary service/client API
    into the kernel.  Then the only thing userland will need to mess
    with is the abstracted LWKT messaging API.
:Its still interesting to look at the code and see what's going on but 
I
:wanted to
:write code that was purely [or as purely as possible] using lkkt_ 
calls
:without
:Unix Domain Sockets and such in the way.

    Yes, that is precisely the goal.  libcaps uses unix domain sockets
    for the messaging pipe but those are fairly cumbersome.  I am as we
    speak creating a general set of system calls to implement a 
generalized
    LWKT messaging system that userland can use both in single-threaded
    environments and in multi-threaded environments.

Since that is what I mainly want to explore I should wait until you've 
reached
some level of completeness I suppose :)

Dave