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Oracle Solaris DHCP Service Developer's Guide Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
1. Overview of Solaris DHCP Data Access Architecture
2. Architecture Features for Module Writers
Synchronizing Access to File-System-Based Containers
Naming the Public Module and Data Store Containers
Passing Data Store Configuration Data
Data Service Configuration and DHCP Management Tools
Public Module Management Bean API Functions
The DHCP server implements multithreading, which enables it to service many clients simultaneously. Public modules are required to be MT-SAFE to support multithreading by the DHCP server.
To make your module MT-SAFE, you must synchronize calls to add_d?(), delete_d?(), and modify_d?() so that they are called serially. For example, if one thread is inside add_dn() for a given DHCP network container, no other thread may be inside add_dn(), delete_dn(), modify_dn(), or lookup_dn() for that same container. If your public module supports a local file-system-based data service, you can use the synchronization service to take care of this for you. See Synchronizing Access to File-System-Based Containers for more information.