daemon.mli

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(*    Copyright 2012 INRIA                                             *)
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(** Server daemon *)

open Protocol

(** Main request processing function. [process_request id req]
    processes the client request [req] and procuces a server
    answer. Eventual log messages are tagged with [id]. *)
val process_request: string -> client_to_server -> server_to_client

(** Synchronous processing of client requests. [process channels fn]
    will read incoming requests on channels, compute the server
    response using [fn] and write the result to the channels. *)
val process: (in_channel * out_channel) -> (client_to_server -> server_to_client) -> unit