Awesome. Great job, Pete. Darin.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Message Sniffer Community" <sniffer@sortmonster.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:49 PM Subject: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]FP suggestions Hello Matt, Wednesday, June 7, 2006, 4:22:05 PM, you wrote: > > Pete, > > Since the %WEIGHT% variable is added by Declude, it might make > sense to have a qualifier instead of making the values space > delimited. I don't want to mix delimiters... everything so far is using spaces, so it makes sense to continue that way IMO. > Errors in Declude could cause values to not be inserted, > and not everyone will want to skip at a low weight. I haven't seen > any bugs with %WEIGHT% since shortly after it was introduced, but > you never know. I have seen some issues with other Declude inserted variables though. Well, errors are always a possibility, but in this case it _should_ be reasonably safe. For example, if this is used to gate SNF, then a missing %WEIGHT% would result in trying to launch a program with the same name as the authentication string, and it is highly unlikely that would be found, so the result would be the "program not found" error code. That's not perfect because it's a nonzero result, but it is safe in that it is not likely to launch another program. > One other thing that I came across with the way that Declude calls > external apps...you can't delimit the data with things like quotes. > There is no mechanism for escaping a functional quote from a quote > that should appear in the data that you pass to it...so don't use > quotes as delimiters :) Not a problem... I just whipped together a utility called WeightGate.exe that can be downloaded here (for now): http://www.messagesniffer.com/Tools/WeightGate.exe Suppose you wanted to use it in Declude to skip running SNF if your weight was already ridiculously low (perhaps white listed) or already so high that you want to save the extra cycles. Then you might do something like this: SNF external nonzero "c:\tool\WeightGate.exe -50 %WEIGHT% 30 c:\SNF\sniffer.exe authenticationxx" 10 0 (hopefully that didn't wrap, and if it did you will know what I meant ;-) To test this concept out you might first create a copy of WeightGate.exe callled ShowMe.exe (case matters!) and then do something like this: SNF external nonzero "c:\tool\ShowMe.exe -50 %WEIGHT% 30 c:\SNF\sniffer.exe authenticationxx" 10 0 The result of that would be the creation of a file c:\ShowMe.log that contained all of the parameters ShowMe.exe was called with -- that way you wouldn't have to guess if it was correct. ShowMe.exe ALWAYS returns zero, so this _should_ be safe ;-) If you run WeightGate on the command line without parameters it will tell you all about itself and it's alter ego ShowMe.exe. That description goes like this (I may fix the typo(s) later): WeightGate.exe (C) 2006 ARM Research Labs, LLC. This program is distributed AS-IS, with no warranty of any kind. You are welcome to use this program on your own systems or those that you directly support. Please do not redistribute this program except as noted above, however feel free to recommend this program to others if you wish and direct them to our web site where they can download it for themselves. Thanks! www.armresearch.com. This program is most commonly used to control the activation of external test programs from within Declude (www.declude.com) based on the weigth that has been calculated thus far for a given message. As an added feature, if you rename this program to ShowMe.exe then it will emit all of the command line arguments as it sees them to a file called c:\ShowMe.log so that you can use it as a debugging aid. If you are seeing this message, you have used this program incorrectly. The correct invocation for this program is: WeightGate <low> <weight> <hight> <program> <arg 1>, <arg 2>,... <arg n> Where: <low> = a number representing the lowest weight to run <progra>. <weight> = a number representing the actual weight to evaluate. <high> = a number representing the highest weight to run <program>. <program> = the program to be activated if <weight> is in range. <arg 1>, <arg 2, ... <arg n> = arguments for <program>. If <weight> is in the range [<low>,<high>] then WeightGate will run <program> and pass all of <arg 1>, <arg 2>,... <arg n> to it. Then WeightGate will collect the exit code of <program> and return it as WeightGate's exit code. If WeightGate gets the wrong number of parameters it will display this message and return FAIL_SAFE (zero) as it's exit code. If <weight> is not in range (less than <low> or greater than <high>) then WeightGate will NOT launch <program> and will return FAIL_SAFE (zero) as it's exit code. As a deubgging aid, I was called with the following arguments: arg[0] <me> = WeightGate -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <sniffer@sortmonster.com>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <sniffer@sortmonster.com>. 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