The resource manager's view

Let's look at things from the resource manager's perspective.

Basically, the resource manager needs to tell the process manager “I'll be responsible for a certain part of the pathname space” (it needs to register itself). Then, it needs to receive messages from clients and handle them. Obviously, things aren't quite that simple.

Let's take a quick overview of the functions that the resource manager provides, and then we'll look at the details.