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Re: device stuff - cvs
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Christian Hopp |
Subject: |
Re: device stuff - cvs |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:40:09 +0200 (CEST) |
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
> Christian Hopp <address@hidden> writes:
(...)
> > IF CHILD(REN) <operator> <int> [<int>] <action>
>
> One question, what does this mean :) Does it mean that if a process
> has e.g. more than X children then -> action?
Yep... something like software birth control. (-: As well as too much
memory consumption, too many instances can cause a lot of trouble on a
system.
> > IF TOTALMEM(ORY) <operator> <int|real> <unit|%> [<int>] <action>
> >
> > the old syntax is still available but you get a warning that it is
> > obsolete.
> >
> > If its okay I can sync it... what about the others?
>
> Yes, please, do sync. I thought I should wait until last to add my
> stuff (alert command, timestamp extension) and then run a QA on the
> codebase before preparing a release. (For instance the code does not
> compile on my RH7.3 after Martin's major patch :).
Sure!
> > We can leave the old syntaxes till 4.0.
>
> The next release, that is, this release _is_ going to be 4.0. At least
> I think we agreed upon this, didn't we? Since it contains a whole new
> functionality branch with device check++ and language
> changes/extensions[1].
Maybe I have missed something. (-: Because I always read 3.3 in the
docs.
> Anyway, I think it should be possible to deprecate the current
> resource syntax for this release already because this particularry
> change is slight. Simply add the same deprecation code to the parser
> like we have done with for instance autostart:
>
> autostart : AUTOSTART {
> YERROR("Warning: 'autostart' is deprecated - "
> "use the 'mode' statement instead");
> }
> ;
That's not a "warning"... warnings are usually non fatal. You should say
error!
Christian
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- device stuff - cvs, Martin Pala, 2003/06/06
- Re: device stuff - cvs, Jan-Henrik Haukeland, 2003/06/06
- Re: device stuff - cvs, Martin Pala, 2003/06/09
- Re: device stuff - cvs, Christian Hopp, 2003/06/10
- Re: device stuff - cvs, Jan-Henrik Haukeland, 2003/06/10
- Re: device stuff - cvs,
Christian Hopp <=
- Re: device stuff - cvs, Jan-Henrik Haukeland, 2003/06/11
- Re: device stuff - cvs, Christian Hopp, 2003/06/11
- Re: device stuff - cvs, Jan-Henrik Haukeland, 2003/06/11
- Re: device stuff - cvs, Jan-Henrik Haukeland, 2003/06/11
- Language Task Force Report I [Re: device stuff - cvs], Christian Hopp, 2003/06/12
- Re: device stuff - cvs, Martin Pala, 2003/06/20
- Re: device stuff - cvs, Jan-Henrik Haukeland, 2003/06/22
- Re: device stuff - cvs, rory, 2003/06/22