Subj : Re: Semaphore
To   : Nick Andre
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Mon Jan 18 2021 02:14 pm

  Re: Re: Semaphore
  By: Nick Andre to Dan Cross on Mon Jan 18 2021 04:33 pm

 > On 19 Jan 21  09:56:27, Dan Cross said the following to Dallas Hinton:
 >
 > DC> More generally, the issue in this discussion is that the
 > DC> request for a feature has been wrapped up in details about
 > DC> the implementation of that feature.  From my observation,
 > DC> that's the central source of friction.
 >
 > I cannot believe I actually agree with Oli about something but he is 100%
 > correct that its likely because the request is DOS-ish and not Posix-ish.
 >
 > The use of signals I can and have clearly demonstrated that it works
 > differently on Windows. I believe Rob when he tells me the logic is there,
 > he may be correct but BinkD on Windows drops all active connections when
 > signalled. If someone can demonstrate a way to fulfill the request,
 > wonderful.

Try this:
ftp://vert.synchro.net/main/bbs/binkd.exe

You can see the (2 line) code change here:
https://github.com/rswindell/binkd/commit/68baf454683688b52890ab3ce9e9f403

If it works as you wish, I'll submit a PR to pgul's repo.

 > I don't buy that argument of introducing another level of complexity because
 > the BinkD code is already doing a fair amount of checking for files such as
 > the config, FLO, HLD etc. Checking for a dummy file cannot be much of a
 > stretch to put in there. Its a silly program that sends silly Fido packets;
 > its not some mission-critical airline reservation system.

BinkD is a unixy program and semaphore files are just not the Unixy-way (for a lot of good reasons). The *nix build of BinkD already behaves in the way you requested, so perhaps that added to the confusion. Or maybe the primary contributors aren't actively following this echo.

 > Anyhow its not the end of the world if it can't be done but the reactions to
 > this simple request from Sysops over the years are almost always negative
 > from a certain OS crowd.

Huh.
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