Click Dynamic loading (fwd)

[Eddie Kohler]

IHi Prem, sorry for not getting back to you for a while; things here have
been busy for a paper deadline.

> Please let me know this : If I modify your 'click-install' code such that
> only the new modules are compiled and installed but  the configuration
> file is not rewritten to then I can save the packets being lost due to the
> config file being ripped off ..right ? A new "container' element can take
> care to call the current module loaded. This is just the basic idea now. I
> just want to know the feasibility. 

Your idea should work fine. However, we will release a new version of Click
(v1.0.5) early this week that has hot-swap installation. This means that if
you run `click-install -h NEWCONFIG', and NEWCONFIG's Queues have the same
names as the old configuration's Queues, then packets will not be lost.

lov,
ed