2.2. Control and Status Protocols
One way to overcome the limitations of the approaches described above is to use a protocol for control and status to separate the daemon from the user interfaces. Figure 2-4 illustrates a daemon offering a single application programming interface (API) to be used by all of the clients and user interfaces.
Figure 2-4. Using one protocol between the daemon and user interfaces
A control and status protocol has several advantages over the alternatives:
Reduced complexity for multiple user interfaces
A control and status protocol simplifies the user interface logic in the daemon, since the daemon only needs to implement ...
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