19.5. The IPADM Daemon, ipadmd

The daemon's duties consist of:

• Creating the well-known server socket, then looping forever, accepting client connect requests and forking a copy of itself to handle them

• Processing IPADM messages for the duration of the session

• Employing advisory file locking so only one client has write access to an SDB at any point in time, thus ensuring the integrity of the SDB files

• Keeping the DHCP and DNS configuration files current by periodically checking for modified SDB files, and running the filter as required