Jason.... You molest your players? Bad coder, bad coder.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Gauthier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Dale Kingston'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 8:06 PM
Subject: RE: Fork()
> I've done something similiar.
>
> However, I think you can simplify it a bit.
> Allow your mud to parse a command line parameter.
> Then call the function based on that, (do no load the world files at all)
> and exit.
>
> Run each night with cron or something.
>
> if (argc>1) {
>
> if (argv[2] && !strcmp(argv[2], "-molest")) {
>
> molest_all_players();
>
> }
>
> if (argv[2] && !strcmp(argv[2], "-delete")) {
>
> delete_players();
>
> }
>
>
>
> if (argv[2] && !strcmp(argv[2], "-clanaudit")) {
>
> clan_audit();
>
> }
>
>
>
> if (argv[2] && !strcmp(argv[2], "-adjaudit")) {
>
> adjective_audit();
>
> }
>
> merc_down=TRUE;
> }
>
> This is just a generic idea.
> To use fork():
>
> a = fork();
>
> if (!a){
> background_process();
> exit();
> }
> if (a==-1){
> /* fork failure */
> }
>
> If you use fork, you need to get into signals and deal with the ones child
> processes use.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dale Kingston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 9:45 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Fork()
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know where I could read up on how to use fork()?
> > Would like the mud to do something on the side, but it's
> > going to take a second or two to process it.
> >
> > Basically I've made a pfile cleaner to go through and clean
> > up the pfiles remove old ones what not. And I have it do a
> > backup to when it does this. But it causes the mud to halt
> > for a second while it does all this. So I've heard/seen a
> > little bit on fork. But idk really how to use it. This
> > cleaner is just one function so would I just like:
> >
> > if (fork())
> > {
> > clean_pfiles();
> > exit(0);
> > }
> >
> > Or how would I use fork to do that. I don't need anything
> > from the process information wise. I would just need it to
> > run this one function and the close the process.
> >
> > So if anyone knows somewhere, where I could read up on it. Or
> > maybe an explaininaion on how to do this would be very appreciated.
> >
> >
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