On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 07:03:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Oh OK. Actually, I haven't heard of anyone using inactivity watchers.
> > Maybe they should watch a group of watchers instead of event
> > priorities...
>
> Watching of watchers sounds really interesting!
Oh? Would you use it like an extra timeout?
> > It is restricted to alphanumerics. I don't want to allow fancy stuff
> > like (?{ ... }). Does anyone know what is reasonable to allow in a REx?
>
> I do not know such rules and found none in my Perl books (I do not own Friedls
>regexp book, may be
> there ...). But - in my opinion - is it really useful to restrict a user of such a
>tool? I think no
> real server should open such a port. It should always run under developers control.
>If someone can
> suspend running watchers and change their priority at his will, what worse could he
>do with regular
> expressions?
Fair enough. Maybe I am being unrealistic about safety. Ah well, I
unrestricted them in my copy.
> > > ... The "t" control accepts only certain values (e.g. second value
> > > 100 becomes 120, 150 becomes 180, but 54 and 39 work ...).
> >
> > Yah, that's just how the stats are collected.
>
> Ah, ok. Possibly a short doc note to avoid confusion ...?
Done.
> So don't I. If you refresh the screen, the command line contents is still under the
>(telnet) clients
> control, so the server has no access to it, I assume ... hm!
Yup. I'd need to write a client which turned off line buffering, and
that would spoil the easy of use to some extent.
> > Hm. I don't want to change anything until you are sure you need it...
>
> So let's see first what the currently running debugging and ..::ProcessTop sessions
>will show, and I
> will ask again for these new levels when I see no other way to solve the load
>balance problem.
Sounds good. Bear in mind that high loads cannot always be scheduled
properly because they are, well, too loaded. But of course you already
knew that. :-)
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