Re: Anyone interested in a OpenLDAP => BeOS Port?

[Allen Reese <allen@driversoft.com>]

It wouldn't be too hard to write a BFS backend for openldap.
I should check out what would be required.  

The easiest way to store the info would be to make a dir tree that
resembles a hash table, then store attributes on the directories, and on
zero byte files within.  In fact you could just make all containers dirs,
and all leafs files.  ;)

Allen Reese
Senior Software Engineer
Driversoft, Inc.
allen@driversoft.com

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Steffen Yount wrote:

> 
> The Be Operating System has many of the building blocks to be an LDAP
> Server Beast. (http://www.be.com/products/index.html)
> 
> The BeOS has an extendable file attribute database built into it's fast
> journaling filesystem, which could be tapped by an LDAP backend. (Quite a
> few BeOS apps use the filesystem to keep databases of addresses and phone
> numbers)
> 
> The BeOS was also built on a model of pervasive multithreading. So a
> multithreaded OpenLDAP server could scale extreemly well with a system
> using 2 to 4+ processors.
> 
> Also the BeOS sports a Bash shell, a Posix compatibility layer, and most
> of the GNU tools.
> 
> How hard do you think a port to the BeOS would be?
> 
> Would it be better to wait till after OpenLDAP 2.0 with more threading support?
> 
> Is anyone interested?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steffen
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