Re: How to use DO in a Foundation-based daemon

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 19 Oct 2006, at 07:21, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 19 Oct 2006, at 00:59, Quentin Mathé wrote:
>
> > But I still think there is a host related issue, because my code  
> > seems correct if you take in account my daemon is for a single  
> > user on a single machine.
> > In my test, it fails in the method -[NSMessagePortNameServer  
> > portForName:onHost:]. With NSMessagePort debug level turned on, I  
> > get the following ouput :
> >
> > portForName: /etoilesystem host: pcubuntu
> > non-local host
>
> Your host name is wrong ...
> When you want a connection for the current host you must specify an  
> empty string as the host (or an asterisk ... which means any host).
> Actually, I think gnustep allows nil as well ... but I wouldn't  
> guarantee that, and would doubt that using nil is portable to MacOS-X
>
> Maybe the message port name server ought to allow any local host  
> name (or even simply ignore the host argument) ... I haven't  
> checked MacOS-X behavior ... the current behavior in GNUstep  
> inherits from the old NeXT behavior where a host name implied the  
> corresponding IP address.
> Probably we should either ignore the host or generate an error log  
> or raise an exception ... whatever MacOS-X does.

I checked the MacOS-X documentation ... it says that the host name  
must be an empty string or nil.