Data server (ds) access from other nodes

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Hello!

I have found data server - ds (shipped with tcpip 4.25 for QNX 4.25) quite
usefull.
The only problem is no ability to access server from other nodes (as stated
for ds_
interface functions).

I have found one possibility to make it work. As ds creates an entry in /dev
(/dev/ds)
I did the following on the remote node:
prefix -A /dev/ds=//X/dev/ds … X is the number of data server node

It seems it’s working well. Do you have any suggesions or warnings in your
mind ?
Or do you have any other suggestions?

Thank you,

Pavol Kycina
Microstep-HDO

2

You came up with a nice workaround. Indeed the data manager
is an IO manager and thus based on file descriptor. This
is however all hiden in the API.

“Pavol Kycina” <kycina@microstep-hdo.sk> wrote in message
news:8qvfe8$29e$1@inn.qnx.com…

Hello!

I have found data server - ds (shipped with tcpip 4.25 for QNX 4.25) quite
usefull.
The only problem is no ability to access server from other nodes (as
stated
for ds_
interface functions).

I have found one possibility to make it work. As ds creates an entry in
/dev
(/dev/ds)
I did the following on the remote node:
prefix -A /dev/ds=//X/dev/ds … X is the number of data server node

It seems it’s working well. Do you have any suggesions or warnings in your
mind ?
Or do you have any other suggestions?

Thank you,

Pavol Kycina
Microstep-HDO









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