Easiest way I can see, if wrap a named around the process,
with a 5 second timeout, and tell it not to throw an exception on
timeout.
Why use cfthread, if you are already in a scheduled task already?
Mark
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Richard Meredith-Hardy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> My CF8 app has a scheduled event going off every 15 mins, for the
> purposes of explanation I'll call this RAPID
>
> One thing it has to do can be very long running, up to a couple of hours
> (no, it's not my code, but all to do with the response time from a
> crappy old Sage line 100 accounts program). I'll call this XSLOW.
>
> Ideally, what I would like to do is for RAPID to look to see if XSLOW is
> not running, and kick it off in a separate thread on a sort of
> fire-and-forget basis, but I don't want any other instances of XSLOW
> kicking off until it's finished.
>
> I could do this with some sort of external flag, but if XSLOW hangs or
> the server gets rebooted or something there's the risk that XSLOW and
> its flag will get out of synch and never run again.
>
> Can CFTHREAD somehow be scoped in the application scope so RAPID can
> check for XSLOW's thread status every time it runs?
>
> I'm thinking that some sort of combination of CFTHREAD and CFLOCK will
> do the trick, but I'm at a bit of a loss to see the exact way to do it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
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