Subj : Re: polling
To   : g00r00
From : Shaun Buzza
Date : Sun Apr 03 2022 07:37 pm

g0> Agreed that this type of BUSY event would be pretty useful if you want
g0> to fully automate some things that require you to take the servers down.

g0> I was experimenting with something like this before but what I struggled
g0> with was exactly how I should handle existing connections to those
g0> servers.

g0> Handling new connections during a defined maint window shouldn't be too g0> hard but figuring out the existing connections is a little more tricky.

Stop thinking so hard sir! (@_@)
Smoke a doob, or somethin'!

Surely, you're at least as intelligent as I am? Look again! Don't expect every connection to occur at the same time!

Sorry, and thank you for listening.

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

... Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

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