X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=server.c;h=e9c1f12eeda3d4bfea1f59524ffacdad44201547;hp=2018b8eece1988206e2992f560b65fa73059ff5e;hb=fc2ef6feea6f54a6d8bf0396e408e233c263bf37;hpb=e32a0e7295c6386b421956553ae577a7df1abf8e

diff --git a/server.c b/server.c
index 2018b8ee..e9c1f12e 100644
--- a/server.c
+++ b/server.c
@@ -86,7 +86,15 @@ struct lls_parse_result *server_lpr = NULL;
 /* Command line options (no config file options). Used in handle_sighup(). */
 static struct lls_parse_result *cmdline_lpr;
 
-/** A random value used in child context for authentication. */
+/**
+ * A random number used to "authenticate" the afs connection.
+ *
+ * para_server picks this number by random before it forks the afs process. The
+ * command handlers know this number as well and write it to the afs socket,
+ * together with the id of the shared memory area which contains the payload of
+ * the afs command. A local process has to know this number to abuse the afs
+ * service provided by the local socket.
+ */
 uint32_t afs_socket_cookie;
 
 /** The mutex protecting the shared memory area containing the mmd struct. */
@@ -177,7 +185,6 @@ void parse_config_or_die(bool reload)
 	struct lls_parse_result *cf_lpr, *merged_lpr;
 	char *home = para_homedir();
 
-	daemon_close_log();
 	if (OPT_GIVEN(CONFIG_FILE))
 		cf = para_strdup(OPT_STRING_VAL(CONFIG_FILE));
 	else
@@ -454,7 +461,7 @@ static int init_afs(int argc, char **argv)
 		i = argc - lls_num_inputs(cmdline_lpr) - 1;
 		sprintf(argv[i], "para_server (afs)");
 		close(afs_server_socket[0]);
-		afs_init(afs_socket_cookie, afs_server_socket[1]);
+		afs_init(afs_server_socket[1]);
 	}
 	close(afs_server_socket[1]);
 	if (read(afs_server_socket[0], &c, 1) <= 0) {