Hello The Bat! developers,
I'm using The Bat! Version 1.36
under Windows NT 4.0 Build 1381 Service Pack 5
and would like to report a bug
The bug description: For some reason, The Bat! creates continuous
disk access while running idle. I tested this on two different
machines with Windows NT 4.0, to the same effect.
I used a file system monitor and found out that the only disk access
seems to be to the file thebat.IPC (which is for sending commands to
The Bat!, as I learned). Two or three days ago, I submitted some
Delphi source code to TBUDL which monitors a directory on a disk
without creating any apparent disk access all the time. Here is a
copy:
procedure WaitForCommandFileToAppear;
var h: HANDLE;
theend: boolean;
begin
h := FindFirstChangeNotification (THEBATROOTDIR + '\Commandfiles',
false, FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE);
theend := false;
repeat
if WaitForSingleObject (h, 1000) <> WAIT_TIMEOUT then begin
TriggerWhateverAction;
FindNextChangeNotification (h);
end
else begin
if mylittleterminationflag then
theend := true;
end;
until theend = true;
FindCloseChangeNotification (h);
end;
As I wrote in the original mail, this probably won't work out of the
box, as I just hacked it in. Of course one difference would be the use
of a directory instead of a file, but that shouldn't be of any
practical concern. Someone who needs backward compatibility could
always create a link to the command file in the bat root directory.
Steps to reproduce the bug: Leave The Bat! running while the machine
does nothing else at that time. Sit down, read a book, drink some
tea and listen to your machine scratching away happily on the disk
every some seconds.
Regards,
Oliver Sturm
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