stpd and translator

[Martin Hunt]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 13:28 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Certainly.  I envision pulling in those parts of stpd that actually
> read the relayfs files (and if they stick around, the netlink sockets)
> into src/buildrun.cxx.  This module, a part of the translator/driver
> program, would supervise all the build/insmod/communication/rmmod
> needs of the probes.
> 
> As to *how* this could work - at the first stab you can imagine it *as
> if* current stpd ran as a thread within the driver program.  I
> envision simplifying it further than that, into a single-threaded
> relayfs poller, data-stream multiplexer, and general startup/shutdown
> supervisor.

What do you see as the advantages of doing it this way vs having a
separate program? 

Martin