Subj : Semaphore Help
To   : Kevin Miller
From : Kai Richter
Date : Fri Feb 19 2021 04:39 pm

Hello Kevin!

18 Feb 21, Kevin Miller wrote to All:

 KM> I have noticed that the semaphores are only dropped after exiting GED
 KM> rather than after an echo or netmail message is saved.

Well, the fidonet technology isn't very much multi user/processing safe. In the past i saw golded counting down waiting for access to a locked squish messagebase.

 KM> Can this behavior be modified as I'd prefer semaphores be created
 KM> after a message is saved.

Fidonet isn't that time critical. Sometimes it helps a lot to review written messages some minutes later. I found typos of the type "oh no, my did my brain controlled my hands to write that?". One of my favorites atm is acutal for actual. For me this delay results into higher quality mails. Oh and i found another one, see above, my hands were faster again, "my did my" should be "why did my". I really need to slow down.

 KM> I did notice that the semaphore type 'EXPORTLIST' does get dropped
 KM> after an echo message is saved.

I'm running golded via a scriptfile and touch the semaphores after golded quits. I think there is no option to control the behavior of the semaphore creation time.

But you could use EXTERNUTIL to start a script that touches the semaphores.
That way you could hit an F Key like F5 to force a scan.

Regards

Kai

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