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Mike Hibler authored
The big backward compatibility issue is that we no longer store running frisbeed info in the DB. This means that loadinfo could not return address:port info to clients and thus old frisbee MFSes could no longer work. While not a show stopper to require people to update their MFS first, I made a token effort to implement backward compat as follows. When an old frisbee MFS does "tmcc loadinfo" (as identified by a tmcd version < 33), tmcd will invoke "frisbeehelper" to startup a daemon. Sound like frisbeelauncher? Well sorta, but vastly simplified and I only want this to be temporary. The helper just uses the frisbee client to make a "proxy" request to the localhost master server. The Emulab configuration of the master server now allows requests from localhost to proxy for another node. frisbeehelper is also used by webfrisbeekiller to kill a running daemon (yes, just like frisbeelauncher). It makes a proxy status request on localhost and uses the returned info to identify the particular instance and kill it.
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