Subj : Re: Interested in starting out
To   : NuSkooler
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Dec 26 2022 14:06:24

  Re: Re: Interested in starting out
  By: NuSkooler to apam on Sat Dec 03 2022 10:39 am

 >
 > On Sunday, December 4th apam said...
 >  Ap> You could do that, but you'll have to implement dropfile handling,
 >  Ap> connection timeouts and time-left handling yourself.
 >
 > Dropfiles are so basic, and many of the values don't make sense any longer
 > (or are dummy values & ignored anyway), so I guess I don't see this as a
 > blocker. Connection timeouts are generally handled by the BBS: If the
 > connection drops, the board drops the door PID.

Which could be bad if the stdio door needs to save state information to disk. Synchronet (on *nix) first sends a HUP signal, then if the process doesn't gracefully self-terminate within 5 seconds, sends a TERM signal. If the TERM signal doesn't do it (gracefully terminate the door), then sbbs'll kill it. This works pretty good for *nix doors, but Windows stdio doors don't have the equivalent facility available to them (or if they do, I'm not aware of it).
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