Subj : RFC seriously
To   : mark lewis
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Sun Nov 30 2014 08:36:33

Hi! mark,

On 29/11/2014 2:11 AM, you wrote:

 ml> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Björn Felten wrote to Paul Quinn:

 BF>>    Indeed. But on the other hand, us batch file phantoms can
 BF>> probably do with just one semaphore file exit, can't we? With an
 BF>> 'EXEC_NOW.OK' flag file that causes Argus to execute 'EXEC_NOW.BAT'
 BF>> (as I've made it now) wouldn't that actually be enough?

 ml> but the mailer is not exiting, is it?? the capability is easily handled
 ml> by the even scheduler as paul showed previously... or am i missing
 ml> something besides a decent beverage again??

That's the thing: it's not something based on an event but simply the 
appearance of the flag from an external source (JamNNTPd in this case, for 
whenever there's mail to scan out).  Argus cannot do this itself with the 
supplied flag-file (aka semaphore) responses.  So, Björn is adding on this 
function in his revised version of Argus.

Note to self.  Paul got confused, and thought that EXEC_NOW.[OK/BAT] could 
serve as a standard naming convention that could be used by several functions, 
for different reasons.  He did think that the BAT could be pre-loaded with some 
task's script and then called using the flag.  Paul had forgotten that Argus 
works in a multi-tasking environment, and that there could come an instant 
where several tools/events might want to use the EXEC_NOW.[OK/BAT] 
simultaneously. Silly boy, he is.[sfx; smack! to the forehead]

Cheers,
Paul.

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