Forwarded as per Tom's suggestion (originally part of
a long string of emails)
--- Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 00:09:47 -0600
> From: Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Alex Carver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS
>
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:54:30PM -0700, we
> recorded a bogon-computron collision of the
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing:
> > Would Xastir show a message directed at an
> > object that it owns?
>
> Look in db.c, the function "decode_message" --- this
> explicitly checks
> the messages "to" against our call sign (with SSID)
> and our base call
> (ignoring SSID), but does not check against any of
> our own objects.
>
> There is no function (that I can see) that provides
> a quick check if
> a call-sign is actually an object owned by
> ourselves, but it shouldn't
> be *that* difficult to write one and use it to
> perform an additional
> check in that routine to make us respond to that
> message.
>
> Thing is, we are not supposed to ACK messages sent
> to our own objects,
> just those sent to our station. (That is something
> that Bob Bruninga
> did comment on when he was advocating using such
> objects and sending messages
> to them during Field Day.)
>
> You might want to take this part of your message
> back to the group for
> discussion.
Is there a function that can return currently owned
objects? If not, is there an array or linked list
somewhere that contains the objects in some way (this
I assume exists otherwise Xastir would never remember
its objects).
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