annotate etc/gnuserv.README @ 1306:371cff0ccdd7

[xemacs-hg @ 2003-02-16 06:08:02 by youngs] Take out Rendhalver - 21.5.11 would have been the first release with him in about.el, but seeing as though he has decided to leave the project, I've taken him out of about.el. If he changes his mind, I can always put him back in.
author youngs
date Sun, 16 Feb 2003 06:08:02 +0000
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1 This file is not meant to be proper documentation. See the file gnuserv.1 for
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2 more information.
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4 ****
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5 NOTE: This version of gnuserv has some enhancements over the original version
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6 distributed by Andy Norman. See the end of this file for more details.
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7 ****
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9 To install, copy gnuserv.el into a directory on your GNU Emacs
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10 load-path. Edit Makefile and change INCLUDES to point to the src
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11 directory underneath your emacs source tree (or make yourself a
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12 config.h file in this directory by hand, starting with config.h.proto
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13 as a first cut) and type:
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17 This should compile the server and the two clients. Now put gnuserv,
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18 gnuclient and gnudoit in a directory that users have in their executable
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19 search paths.
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21 File : Description
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22 ----------------------------------------------------------------
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23 Makefile : Makefile to build gnuserv
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24 LICENSE : GNU General License
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25 README : this file
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26 gnuclient.c : editor client C code
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27 gnudoit.c : eval client C code
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28 gnuserv.1 : gnuserv man page
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29 gnuserv.c : server C code
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30 gnuserv.el : server LISP code for GNU Emacs V18,V19,
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31 XEmacs/Lucid Emacs and Epoch V4
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32 gnuserv.h : server/client C header file
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33 gnuslib.c : server/client C common code
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34 src.x11fns.diff : diffs to src/x11fns to raise window (for emacs18)
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36 config.h.proto : Use this file as the starting point for constructing
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37 a config.h if you don't have access to the
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38 one that was used when compiling your emacs.
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40 If you find *any* problems at all with gnuserv, or you can think of better
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41 ways of doing things (especially remote file access), please e-mail me at one
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42 of the addresses below.
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44 ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com
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45 ange@hpl.hp.co.uk
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46 ...!hplabs!hplb!ange
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47 ...!ukc!hplb!ange
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51 This version of gnuserv has been enhanced by a number of people, including
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52 Bob Weiner <weiner@mot.com>, Darrell Kindred <dkindred@cmu.edu>,
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53 Arup Mukherjee <arup@cmu.edu>, and Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org>. The
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54 modifications are basically as follows:
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56 Bob Weiner:
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58 Integrated support for several versions of emacs. New requests
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59 from gnuclient cause the creation of new frames. Removed the
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60 restriction on the length of the string passed to gnudoit. Later
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61 added a server-done-function variable to control what happens to
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62 a buffer after the user is done with it. Mods to each of the .c
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63 files as well as gnuserv.el.
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64
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65 Darrell Kindred:
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67 Removed the restriction on the length of the string returned from
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68 a gnudoit request, for the purposes of unix/internet sockets.
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69 Allow the gnudoit request to be read from stdin if it's not
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70 specified on the command line. Internet sockets are not opened
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71 unless the GNU_SECURE variable is specified. Unix sockets are
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72 created in a protected ancestral directory, since many Unix
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73 variants don't enforce socket permissions properly. An internet
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74 socket accepting local connections is not opened by default
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75 because this would make it possibly to override all security on
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76 the unix socket. See the man page for details. Unless told to do
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77 otherwise by a command-line argument, gnuclient and gnudoit now
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78 try to open a unix socket by default if support for them was
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79 compiled in. Mods to each of the .c files and to gnuserv.el.
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81 Arup Mukherjee:
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82 Removed the restriction on the length of the string returned from
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83 a gnudoit request, for the purposes of sysv ipc. Added support
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84 for the "gnuserv-frame" variable allowing you to specify control
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85 whether or not new screens are created in response to each
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86 gnuclient request. Made a number of other bugfixes and changes to
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87 the lisp part of the code, allowing gnuserv to work properly with
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88 newer emacs versions. All the changes are listed in the changelog
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89 at the beginning of gnuserv.el. Also fixed up the man page to
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90 reflect the new gnuserv features. On HPs, stopped the "-r"
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91 parameter (in gnuclient) from defaulting to /net/<remotehost>.
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92 Not all installations want this, and it's much harder to debug
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93 when things stop working. Changed the man page to reflect this.
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94 Mods to each of the .c files, gnuserv.el and gnuserv.1
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95
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96 More recently - added Xauth(1X11)-style authentication to gnuserv (as
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97 of version 2.1). Although the code is completely new, credit is
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98 due to Richard Caley <rjc@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk> ... he wrote a
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99 prototype implementation from which I borrowed the basic
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100 mechanism for hooking Xauth into gnuserv.
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102 Ben Wing:
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103 Added gnuattach.