Installation
~~~~~~~~~~~~
+To build the sources from a tarball, execute
-First make sure all non-optional packages listed in the section on
-REFERENCE(Requirements, required software) are installed on your
-system.
+ ./configure && make
-You don't need everything listed there. In particular, MP3, OGG/Vorbis,
-OGG/Speex and AAC support are all optional. The configure script will
-detect what is installed on your system and will only try to build
-those executables that can be built with your setup.
-
-Note that no special decoder library (not even the MP3 decoding library
-libmad) is needed for para_server if you only want to stream MP3 or WMA
-files. Also, it's fine to use para_server on a box without sound card.
-
-Next, install the paraslash package on all machines, you'd like this
-software to run on. If you compile from a released tarball, execute
-
- (./configure && make) > /dev/null
-
-When compiling from git or from snapshots downloaded via gitweb,
-the above command will not work because the configure script is not
-included in the git repository. In this case the following command
-should be used instead:
+To build from git or a gitweb snapshot, run this command instead:
./autogen.sh
-This runs autoconf to generate the configure script, then runs it as
-above. Therefore you'll need autoconf for this to work.
-
There should be no errors but probably some warnings about missing
packages which usually implies that not all audio formats will be
supported. If headers or libs are installed at unusual locations you
Next, change to the "bar" account on client_host and generate the
key pair with the commands
- ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048
- # hit enter twice to create a key with no passphrase
-
-This generates the two files id_rsa and id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh. Note
-that paraslash can also read keys generated by the "openssl genrsa"
-command. However, since keys created with ssh-keygen can also be used
-for ssh, this method is recommended.
+ ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 2048 -N '' -f $key
-Note that para_server refuses to use a key if it is shorter than 2048
-bits. In particular, the RSA keys of paraslash 0.3.x will not work
-with version 0.4.x. Moreover, para_client refuses to use a (private)
-key which is world-readable.
+This generates the two files id_rsa and id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh. Note
+that para_server won't accept keys shorter than 2048 bits. Moreover,
+para_client rejects private keys which are world-readable.
para_server only needs to know the public key of the key pair just
created. Copy this public key to server_host:
connectionless transport, which is the reason that it is currently
only available via UDP.
+Abstract socket namespace
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+UNIX domain sockets are a traditional way to communicate between
+processes on the same machine. They are always reliable (see above)
+and don't reorder datagrams. Unlike TCP and UDP, UNIX domain sockets
+support passing open file descriptors or process credentials to
+other processes.
+
+The usual way to set up a UNIX domain socket (as obtained from
+socket(2)) for listening is to first bind the socket to a file system
+pathname and then call listen(2), then accept(2). Such sockets are
+called _pathname sockets_ because bind(2) creates a special socket
+file at the specified path. Pathname sockets allow unrelated processes
+to communicate with the listening process by binding to the same path
+and calling connect(2).
+
+There are two problems with pathname sockets:
+
+ * The listing process must be able to (safely) create the
+ socket special in a directory which is also accessible to
+ the connecting process.
+
+ * After an unclean shutdown of the listening process, a stale
+ socket special may reside on the file system.
+
+The abstract socket namespace is a non-portable Linux feature which
+avoids these problems. Abstract sockets are still bound to a name,
+but the name has no connection with file system pathnames.
+
License
~~~~~~~
projects / paraslash.git / blobdiff