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Annotation of researchv10no/cmd/face/README, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: There are two pieces to the face server:
        !             2: faces is the real server; it should be run on the machine where
        !             3: the face files live.
        !             4: faced is the client interface; it should be run on each machine
        !             5: where faces be available.
        !             6: faced is a netb face server (start it via faced.go with runfs or setup);
        !             7: it calls faces when necessary, requests filenames and face data, and
        !             8: drops the connection when idle to conserve network resources on the
        !             9: central machine.
        !            10: faced and faces speak a private protocol, defined (mostly) in faceproto.h.
        !            11: 
        !            12: In the research world, faced and faced.go should be in /usr/netb
        !            13: everywhere; faces should be run only on kwee.
        !            14: 
        !            15: faced is portable but needs libnetb.a; see /usr/src/netfs.
        !            16: faces is portable if you adjust the contents of dirent.h,
        !            17: do something about the call to select in faces.c, and have
        !            18: libipc.a.  All the network-dependent code is believed to be
        !            19: in faces.c; perhaps it can be ported to other worlds.
        !            20: 
        !            21: The absolute filenames /usr/net/people.tab and /usr/net/machine.tab
        !            22: are compiled into faces.c; absolute pathnames for the directories where
        !            23: faces live are compiled into file.c.  All of these are botches.

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