Adds a module to the dependency list. Dependency list is of form b,c<d>e,f meaning that module "a" is dependant on "b" and "c" and requires module b and c to be loaded.

Find a protocol by name and load it. Caller is responsible for ultimately deleting the protocol

This is for use by extension DLLs as it does not attach the protocol to a session.

Find a protocol by address family, socket type, and protocol ID and load it. Caller is responsible for ultimately deleting the protocol

This is for use by extension DLLs as it does not attach the protocol to a session.

Find a protocol from the lists.

Goes through the dependency list and gets the dependant modules for aTag

Init data structures and hunt for protocols.

Manually load the specified protocol This is used by clients who need to ensure that an open call will not take a significant amount of time (e.g. IrCOMM) It effectively makes all the lengthy parts of Open asynchronous.

Create a new host resolver object

Create a new database type thang

Create a new service resolver provider

Find a protocol by name - no wildcard support.

Try to clean up a protocol instance

This routine is pushed onto the cleanup stack in order to clean up a protocol instance. The check against the protocol pointer being non-NULL is a safety check. This routine was created because ProtocolManager::CleanupProtocol(protocol) was being called in circumstances where the protocol had already gone and the pointer to it had become invalid. This routine takes as argument a pointer to the CProtocolRef instance of the protocol, so that the protocol pointer can be checked against NULL.

free data structures

Do the opposite of the above function