Tested it out: If an owserver process fails, The system reports no content on that bus entry, until it is restored. Probably exactly what you want.
Will you know all the owservers at initiation time, or will you need to add more as your system functions (hotplugging)? Paul -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alfille, Paul H.,M.D. Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 6:47 AM To: owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Owfs-developers] First Post and some questions What would you like it to do? We have several choices: 1. Report (after a timeout) as no devices present on that owserver, and keep reporting that until reconnected. 2. Have a separate means of testing status and response. Adding a "present" flag would have nice homology with the 1-wire device structure. 3. Error and die. I'll have to test, but I think we do number 1. Paul Alfille ------------------ > > You can certainly aggregate several owservers. All the packages use the > same underlying owlib that has multiple data sources built in. The only > question is whether you can pass all their names on the "command line" -- > the invoking call. It is probably better design to "aggregate" to a local > owserver, and then use that owserver for all the TCL calls. That allows > more than one process to talk to the devices, and probably reduces startup > times. > If I use it that way, I would have have no control about the data passed via TCP. What happens if a local owserver cannot connect to a remote one? Does it try again? This is really a knockout criteria, as the device should be "self-healing" to the greatest extent possible. Jan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
