[IRCServices] Modules

[Ian R. Justman]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Andrew Kempe wrote:

> Point me in the direction of some example code and some documentation and
> I'm more than willing to attempt to provide this type of support.
> 
> I've been toying with the idea of modules for a while now - mainly due to
> the number of requests for specific addtions to Services. By having module
> support, DALnet specific enhancements, detailed statistics etc would be
> easier to implement. Currently Services is modular in the sense of #define
> blocks :)

Listar and Apache (the latter being the most commonly-used program to use
this) use dynamically-loadable modules to extend their functionality. You
might look at the dl* calls, like in Linux's and Solaris' libdl.so;
FreeBSD has the dl functions built into their libc.

And if you come across a platform which does not support
dynamically-linkable modules or those whose dynamic support is either too
hairy or broken, you'd have to build otherwise-dynamic functions directly
into the services binary statically. 

--Ian R. Justman, Co-Founder and Postmaster, The EsperNet IRC Network.

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