Re: stuff to work on

[Martin Pala]

Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
> Martin Pala <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > My priority list:
> >
> > 1.) SMTP update (message queue + state machine)
> > 2.) "up" event (ability to notice the bidirectional state transtition)
>
>
> If you take only one of these it would be great. Especially item 2 has
> been requested by a few.

OK, i will look on it.

> Item 1, refactoring the SMTP protocol
> implementation in sendmail() to use a proper state-machine and
> implementing a mail queue is going to be a big job, but it will
> probably be fun and a challenge to implement :-)

Yes :)

> > What do you think about it?
>
>
> I think the plan sounds good, also if we are going to maintain a queue
> of mail messages it will probably require that sendmail() runs in its
> own thread (because it can take time to process the queue). 
>
> put mail() --> [mail-queue] -> sendmail-thread(read-&-send-mail) 
>
> You will need to create a work-queue where the alert handler put mail
> into a mail queue and sendmail() reads and process mail from the
> queue. If the queue is empty the sendmail() thread sleeps on a
> condition variable.
>
> Maybe you can use this code for inspiration?
>
> http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id={EE21FAD5-7848-4B87-AE8E-A3340E1DD09D}
>
> Under the Source Code link, check: workq.c workq.h workq_main.c. The
> URLs are ridiculous long so I don't pass them here.

Thanks for hints, i will look on it :) I'm currently reading OOC (object 
oriented C): http://www.planetpdf.com/codecuts/pdfs/ooc.pdf - seems 
quite interesting.


Martin