[Olsr-dev] New plugin: telnet

[Henning Rogge]

The problem is that the plugins are loaded with dlopen() during
runtime... so there are some rules what you can call and what you
cannot call. They functions you want to call are not available during
linking.

Henning Rogge

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:03 PM, equinox <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 2013-02-20 17:43, schrieb Henning Rogge:
>
>> We had something similar than this plugin in the former development
>> branch...
>>
>> the reason we put it into the core was because we found no clean way
>> for one plugin to call each other without the help of the core. Its
>> the same in the OONF-Api (which is used by OLSRv2).
>>
> Yes and that's what i'm doing. The same way PUD and httpinfo share a struct
> inside the olsr_conf i added a struct there too. Of course this can be
> turned of at compile time.
> This is the only way to do it without the need that the telnet plugin loads
> first (even then it's not beatuiful...)
>
>
>> @Equinox: did you do some tests to call your telnet API from the core
>> or from another plugin?
>>
> The sample code i added inside my readme is tested and works from other
> plugins. I didn't test it from the core but i can't see any difference
> between core and plugin when it comes to this. After all its just a linked
> list of command structs and 2 call functions...
>
> regards
>  christian
>



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