David and Paul,

> > Does anyone know if the Firebird project intends to create a/the
> > services layer/api for Linux so that management utils like
> > IB-Workbench will be able to connect to remote servers to perform
> > management functions?
> >
> > If so, is there an intended/desired release date?
> >
> This already exists in SuperServer. It doesn't exist in Classic because
> the underlying architecture does not allow a complete implementation.

In fact, the architecture doesn't prevent it. The problem is that this code
should be limited to the server-side, but the current CS build process have
no ability for this. I believe it could be done by static linking of
fb_inet_server against libgds.

> > Also, does running a classic server create any file
> corruption issues
> > or other maintenance issues not normally associated with the
> > SuperServer architecture?
>
> There are no problems specific to classic that we are aware of.

AFAIK, we are. Since CS uses shared-write access to a database, there's a
possibility to attach it via different connection strings, which may cause a
database corruption.


Dmitry