This one fixes a bug in the notify system. It makes it possible to
alter NOTIFY_INTERVAL without the consequence of having to wait for the
previously set interval to time out. This can be used to switch notify
queries off in the case of lag say.
diff -ruN ../epic4-1.0.1/source/notify.c ./source/notify.c
--- ../epic4-1.0.1/source/notify.c Tue Dec 5 11:11:57 2000
+++ ./source/notify.c Sat Sep 8 18:55:55 2001
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
{
int old_from_server = from_server;
int servnum;
-static time_t next_notify = 0;
+static time_t last_notify = 0;
int interval = get_int_var(NOTIFY_INTERVAL_VAR);
if (!number_of_servers)
@@ -305,19 +305,18 @@
if (x_debug & DEBUG_NOTIFY)
yell("do_notify() was called...");
- if (!next_notify)
- next_notify = time(NULL);
- else if (time(NULL) < next_notify)
+ if (!last_notify)
+ last_notify = time(NULL);
+ else if (interval > (time(NULL) - last_notify))
{
if (x_debug & DEBUG_NOTIFY)
yell("Not time for notify yet [%ld] [%ld]",
- time(NULL), next_notify);
+ time(NULL), last_notify+interval);
return; /* Not yet */
}
- /* We want to do it *on average* every 'interval' seconds */
- next_notify += interval;
+ last_notify = time(NULL);
for (servnum = 0; servnum < number_of_servers; servnum++)
{
if (is_server_connected(servnum))
