As we alluded to in the client and resource manager overview sections above, the general flow of a resource manager begins on the client side with the open(). This gets translated into a connect message and ends up being received by the resource manager's open connect function handler.
This is really key, because the open connect function handler is the “gate keeper” for your resource manager. If the message causes the gate keeper to fail the request, you will not get any I/O requests, because the client never got a valid file descriptor. Conversely, if the message is accepted by the gate keeper, the client now has a valid file descriptor and you should expect to get I/O messages.
But the open connect function handler plays a greater role. Not only is it responsible for verifying whether the client can or can't open the particular resource, it's also responsible for:
The first two operations are performed via the base layer function resmgr_open_bind(); the binding of the attribute structure is done via a simple assignment.
Once the open connect function handler has been called, it's out of the picture. The client may or may not send I/O messages, but in any case will eventually terminating the “session” with a message corresponding to the close() function. Note that if the client suffers an unexpected death (e.g., gets hit with SIGSEGV, or the node that it's running on crashes), the operating system will synthesize a close() message so that the resource manager can clean up. Therefore, you are guaranteed to get a close() message!