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Updated PeterG's internals documentation per comments from

Monty; clarified differences between the MySQL library 
directories.

parent 1604f14e
......@@ -3715,9 +3715,17 @@ sending messages, the client part merely calls the server part.
The libmysql files are split into three directories: libmysql (this
one), libmysql_r (the next one), and libmysqld (the next one after
that). It may be that the original intention was that the libmysql
directory would hold the "client part" files, and the libmysqld
directory would hold the "server part" files.
that).
@*@*
The "library of mysql" has some client-connection
modules. For example, as described in an earlier
section of this manual, there is a discussion of
libmysql/libmysql.c which sends packets from the
client to the server. Many of the entries in the
libmysql directory (and in the following libmysqld
directory) are 'symlinks' on Linux, that is, they
are in fact pointers to files in other directories.
@*@*
The program files on this directory are:
......@@ -3742,8 +3750,7 @@ manager.c -- initialize/connect/fetch with MySQL manager
The MySQL Library, Part 2.
@*@*
This is a continuation of the libmysql directory. There is only one
file here, used to build a thread-safe libmysql library:
There is only one file here, used to build a thread-safe libmysql library:
@itemize @bullet
@item
makefile.am
......@@ -3755,8 +3762,9 @@ makefile.am
The MySQL library, Part 3.
@*@*
This is a continuation of the libmysql directory and contains the MySQL
Server as an embeddable library. The program files on this directory
The Embedded MySQL Server Library. The product of libmysqld
is not a client/server affair, but a library. There is a wrapper
to emulate the client calls. The program files on this directory
are:
@itemize @bullet
@item
......@@ -3785,23 +3793,17 @@ The MyISAM table handler.
The C files in this subdirectory come in six main groups:
@itemize @bullet
@item
ft*.c files -- ft stands for "Full Text", code contributed by Sergei
Golubchik
ft*.c files -- ft stands for "Full Text", code contributed by Sergei Golubchik
@item
mi*.c files -- mi stands for "My Isam", these are the main programs
for Myisam
mi*.c files -- mi stands for "My Isam", these are the main programs for Myisam
@item
myisam*.c files -- for example, "myisamchk" utility routine
functions source
myisam*.c files -- for example, "myisamchk" utility routine functions source
@item
rt*.c files -- rt stands for "rtree", some code was written by
Alexander Barkov
rt*.c files -- rt stands for "rtree", some code was written by Alexander Barkov
@item
sp*.c files -- sp stands for "spatial", some code was written by
Ramil Kalimullin
sp*.c files -- sp stands for "spatial", some code was written by Ramil Kalimullin
@item
sort.c -- this is a single file that sorts keys for index-create
purposes
sort.c -- this is a single file that sorts keys for index-create purposes
@end itemize
@*@*
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