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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ NetCosm ======= -NetCosm is currently under development. Things /WILL/ break, and +NetCosm is currently under development. Things WILL break, and features might drift out of existence without prior warning! ## Installation @@ -9,10 +9,7 @@ features might drift out of existence without prior warning! ### Prerequisites: * openssl (for password hashing) -* libbsd (for strlcpy) * libev -* linux >= 3.4 (for "packet mode" pipes) -* glibc >= 2.9 ### Compiling @@ -45,8 +42,9 @@ A child process is spawned for every client that connects. There are two pipes created for every child: a pipe for the child to write to, and a pipe for the master to write to. -Both of these pipes are created in "packet mode" (see pipe(2)), and -therefore require at least linux 3.4 and glibc 2.9. +Both of these pipes are created in "packet mode" (see pipe(2)) if +available, and as UNIX domain socket pairs if not, which is slightly +wasteful.s Many operations, such as listing clients, require the help of the master process. To request an operation, the child writes its request @@ -89,7 +87,7 @@ latency. Versions are numbered using the MAJOR.MINOR.BUGFIX scheme. -The latest version is 0.5.0. +The latest version is 0.5.1. Major versions mark major milestones (see below), minor versions mark incremental milestones and compatibility of data files, and bugfix |