On Sunday 24 March 2019 14:25:47 Martin McCormick wrote: > David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > On Sat 23 Mar 2019 at 18:23:47 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:27:01AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Fri 22 Mar 2019 at 17:45:50 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > > Reading the OP's problem, I wonder how you're meant to detect > > > > "any whiff of a problem" [...] > > > > > > Torture tests. > > > > Like, multiply the number of sources by stealing a few more radio > > scanners to connect up, which then all burst into life as the > > police scour the neighbourhood for thieves? > > > > When dealing with realtime real information coming in, over which > > you have no control, it can be non-trivial to set up such scenarios. > > That's why I thought it best to devise a method that's more > > efficient than line buffering. After all, that's why buffering was > > invented, wasn't it. > > Apparently, the flush after each new cycle of data isn't > taxing the system too much as the output looks correct. This is > a 600 MHZ Pentium which would have gone in to the recycle bin > years ago if not for Linux. Older systems like this tend to > accentuate the effects of not being able to keep up much more > obviously than if this was a quad-core 64-bit modern design. > > The best test I can do is to look at the output which is > quite repetitive as it is designed to allow radios to almost > immediately figure out what frequency and "talk group" they > should be on even if their owner turns on the radio in the middle > of a conversation. Subsequent lines all look the same so if one > is missing part of the data, it looks wrong especially if you > have watched enough of this gibberish to damage one's brain to > the point where it starts making sense. > > Martin
Martin; Its one of the famous Murphy's Laws, the instant it makes sense, thats a security breech so it gets changed again just as soon as they can come up with a confusing enough to the frogs excuse. :( Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>