On 17 May 2004 at 1:06, P Witte wrote: > Thats right; it could cause a mess in certain circumstances. The best way to > do it cleanly is for the ownership to be specified during a job's creation > time.
Yes! > > There is no OS facility to do that change safely. > > I'm pretty sure many people on this list can knock up a small Sbasic > > extension that chnages a job's owner and make it generally available. > > > > For something like this to be included in the OS itself, it should be done > > only after making sure that there will be no unforeseen consequences.... > > > > Or am I being too cautious and conservative? > > A healthy attitude to take in your "job" as Registrar, I think. yes, but it also takes some of the fun out... > If the problem is relatively unique, the simplest solution might be to > produce (or ask someone else to do it for you, Arnould) a new, ad hoc, > keyword to EXECute jobs that allows you to specify the owner. Or even simpler, the EX_M described earlier. All things told, that should be a four lines addition to a total of 2 source files (one line being the new name....). > A more elaborate solution to solve the problem in a general way might be to > extend the functionality of the existing suit of keywords, ie EX, EW, ET, > etc. The parameter options for these keywords are already overly > complex so its not ideal, but I think it could be done relatively easily: > Wherever the ;<parameter string> option is allowed in the parameter list > there could equally well be \<owner job ID> and/or !<priority> instead or in > addition, in any order, ie: > > EX [ #channel TO ] prog_spec [ TO prog_spec ] * [ TO #channel ] > > where prog_spec is > > program [, filename | #channel ] * [ [ ; parameter string] [ \ owner ] > [ ! priority ] ] > > Better than producing a new keyword (with or without degrading the existing > nomenclature eh, Wolfgang ;) (grin) Err - no? I've already trouble to understand the normal EX command line options. I've checked with Fran�ois van Emelen, EX_M is used nowhere and would thus be a perfect fit. I'll probably go for that! Wolfgang ---------------------------------------- www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
