At 2:02 PM -0500 12/8/00, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
I like it a lot. This could also help us move away from the one-shot process architecture we currently have.
It gives us a lot of possibility down the road.
queue-mom (I love that name, even if it doesn't quite capture what this thing is becoming :)
heh. I'm writing (slowly) a replacement for bulk_mailer for some of my systems, and it's code-name is maildude....it was originally queuemon (queue monitor), until I ripped all the queueing out of it and went with QPS (why write a queueing systme when you can borrow one off the shelf?)
could include the watchdog features to make sure any long-running processes are still running. Kind of the init of Mailman.
that's the paradigm I wanted. not cron, but inetd. And that concept might help us get away fro the idea of spawning processes every minute, too -- make them persistent and sleeping, with a watchdog to restart if they die.
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