[DGD] Kernel lib create()

[Felix A. Croes]

Michael McKiel <crashnbrn71 at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I was curious about a couple calls done in the Kernel lib, which seem to be
> strange, in both the telnet.c & binary.c files in kernel/obj/
> Within their create() {} functions, they respectively do calls:
>
> ::create("binary");
> ::create("telnet");
>
> They are the only objects which do this...so...
> What is the purpose or gain of this?  
> Doesn't create only accept an int?

They both inherit /kernel/lib/connection, and you'll notice that the
create function there expects a string argument.

In general, objects that do not have their own dataspace (pure
classes) do not require a standard create function, because it is
never called by the standard initialization procedure anyway.
Instead, they can use whatever arguments the class requires to
create a proper instance.

Regards,
Dworkin
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