Re: Indirection Objects Jonathan Adams (mshadow@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Sat, 8 Jul 2000 16:38:23 -0700 (PDT)

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)


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