Indirection Objects

[Jonathan Adams]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Robert Wittams wrote:

> Now, looking at this, in each key invocation there are
> these switches:
> 
> client->kernel->indirect->kernel->server
> 
> and the other way. 
> 

If you are just doing a simple needs-to-be-revokable start key, the standard
way of doing so is to create an empty red-segment node with the start key as
the keeper.   You only need to have the indirect program if you have multiple
servers which you are load-balancing.

EROS does do call-chaining (you can forward the call and have the server
directly return to the client)

- jonathan

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