Re: Is it possible to pause or wait a process
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texte = Another idea would be to send them to a page with a meta refresh on it>yea,.. what am i thinking, yes, i presume that it is making multiple >calls, but i would be this is a very efficient process that has very >little overhead. > >>Thanks Charles - sound like a reasonable solution - I presume >>there'll be little if any processor load during the wait?? What is >>WebCat doing during waitforfile - making repeated calls to the OS >>file system? >> >>>off the top of my head, you could do something like this: >>> >>>[waitforfile file=some_non_existent_file.txt&timeout=[wait_time]] >>>where the value for wait_time is passed in and increased with each >>>progressive load and some_non_existent_file.txt is just that, never >>>there. >>> >>>[math show=f]wait_time=([wait_time]+30)[/math] >>> >>>>Is there a context or command such as pause or wait - whereby a >>>>spawned event could be delayed by a set number of seconds? If not can >>>>anyone think of a way of achieving this (without putting any load on >>>>the processor obviously)? For example I'd like someone who enters an >>>>incorrect password to wait progressively longer for the result to be >>>>returned to them after each incorrect attempt. >>>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------- >>>This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>> the mailing list
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Another idea would be to send them to a page with a meta refresh on it>yea,.. what am i thinking, yes, i presume that it is making multiple >calls, but i would be this is a very efficient process that has very >little overhead. > >>Thanks Charles - sound like a reasonable solution - I presume >>there'll be little if any processor load during the wait?? What is >>WebCat doing during waitforfile - making repeated calls to the OS >>file system? >> >>>off the top of my head, you could do something like this: >>> >>>[waitforfile file=some_non_existent_file.txt&timeout=[wait_time]] >>>where the value for wait_time is passed in and increased with each >>>progressive load and some_non_existent_file.txt is just that, never >>>there. >>> >>>[math show=f]wait_time=([wait_time]+30)[/math] >>> >>>>Is there a context or command such as pause or wait - whereby a >>>>spawned event could be delayed by a set number of seconds? If not can >>>>anyone think of a way of achieving this (without putting any load on >>>>the processor obviously)? For example I'd like someone who enters an >>>>incorrect password to wait progressively longer for the result to be >>>>returned to them after each incorrect attempt. >>>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------- >>>This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>> the mailing list . >>>To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>>To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >>> >>>Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------- >>This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >>To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >> >>Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > >Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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