The implementation of the Hammurabi system: indexing and interprocess communication

AbstractHammurabi is a software application designed to help the UNIX system administrator to evaluate better the consequences of the actions he/she carries out, in order to maintain the system and to make it change. In this paper, we describe the implementation of Hammurabi's inference engine. This engine is a multiactor Prolog-like engine. The actors have, on the one hand, the ability to spy the events occurring inside the whole machine (inside the engine, and inside the UNIX OS), and on the other hand, the ability to forbid or to freeze some events. This ability is used as a synchronization mechanism. In the first part of this paper, we describe the data representation. In its second part, we describe the implementation of the spying mechanism