Re: 1 cset was pushed to modules/stable: bug 3740 - regenerate the static/session...

"Carl P. Corliss" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Jonn Beames wrote:
> > Changes were applied by jsb to modules/stable level 20.
> >     The following cset was applied:
> >
> >     ChangeSet
> >       1.1639 05/02/05 22:04:48 [email protected] +4 -0
> >       bug 3740 - regenerate the static/sessionless url cache as a
background process.
> >
> >       this seems a bit hackish, but it works.  Perhaps we could
> >       use a background process generator/manager as part of the
> >       xaraya framework.
>
> Is this gonna work in other OS' besides linux? :-)

No, it won't - it needs to come out - well spotted ;-) Not to mention what
shared hosters will say about background jobs being created like that,
especially if they get spawned too quickly and don't end fast enough.

John - if this could be implemented as a function capable of being triggered
by the schedular, then that would be ideal. I don't know if we have a
generic mechanism in place yet to handle non-reantrant scheduled jobs (to
prevent another job starting while the current one is still running - and
not even sure how we could implement such a thing without OS-portable
lockfiles), but if we do, it could be included. Either way, backgound jobs
are definately a no-no. cron/at/schedular is the way to invoke those, or
inittab/services for daemons.

-- JJ