slurm_protocol_api

persist_conn code.

handling connections in the fed_mgr.

through to handle persistent connections.

to free to message innards but not the message itself.

know how to connect back when in the federation.

to the common spot in the persist_conn code.

working with the slurmctld.

you will not be able to correctly handle multiple rpc messages.

(The previous code would send one sub-message back instead of a
DBD_GOT_MULT_MSG containing all the responses)

the slurmdbd_msg_t.

Also making calls more generic to handle things better when doing
this in the slurmctld later.

persist rc opportunities currently using DBD_RC.

the function.

the wire.

the wire.

persist_conn instead.

code.

functions.

structure itself.

to be able to simplify this structure to use a persist_conn later.

the receiving end use the same structure.

dbd_init messages.  Should work with 16.05 sacct/slurmctlds using the
old messages.

this in the future.  Should be easy to move to the end.  Wasn't sure
why it was looked at at the beginning.

of the local functions.  There will be more removal from the
slurmdbd_defs files in the future as the persist_conn logic grows.

msg_type first.  So we add this to the header to make it so.

will be going away in later commits (pack anyway) so that is why we
don't versionize the pack.

the twain shall meet.