Indirection Objects

[Robert Wittams]

Jonathan Adams wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
Ah, right - didn't look closely enough ;-)

Rob