From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-25T00:57:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] slave-0.2.0

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:

> 	This is a great library Ara, I am writing a library that wraps up the
> 	slave lib into another interface for controlling jobs with timers and
> 	a few other things. So the master process holds a thread pool with
> 	references to slave classes in it so that you can set a limit on the
> 	number of running slaves. Using it to offload jobs from a rails app to
> 	not hold up the http flow. I have a question though. What would be the
> 	cleanest way to have a slave class signal that it is finished working
> 	and needs to be kill'ed. I know there is the shutdown method that you
> 	could call from the master process to shutdown a slave. But is there
> 	something similar that can be called from a slave process? Or should I
> 	just let the slave process exit! and let the heartbeat cleanup after
> 	the dead slaves?

hmmm.  good question.  i could add a feature where at_exit handlers could be
added, somthing like


   s = Slave.new( :at_exit => lambda{}){ do_child_stuff }


would that be sufficient?

-a
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