[Asterisk-Dev] Re: is this a bug?

[Matt Riddell]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On January 26, 2005 06:26 pm, Matt Riddell wrote:
> 
>>I get the feeling that maybe it would be easier for you if it popped up
>>a nice ncurses window saying "You've said you want to quit.  I think I
>>know better than you and surely you didn't really mean to quit.  How
>>about we go back to the console.  If you really did want to quit you
>>should really type STOP GRACEFULLY".
> 
> Don't be silly.  Ncurses is overkill.

:)  Good, at least there's a limit then!

> Are you seeing my point yet, or would you like to continue being the smartass?

Why can I not have both...I see your point and raise you 1.

> This has nothing to do with clickthrough licensing nor nanny-fying Asterisk.  
> ^C is a really shitty way to stop a "daemon with a command line interface" as 
> Tlighman put it.

If you were running those as a daemon *and* a command line interface, 
you wouldn't have the problem.

> That's you.  I've never in my life used safe_asteirsk, and that's me.  And I 

So what happens if Asterisk crashes while you're away/asleep/on holiday? 
  Do you expect your users to have no phone until you track down the 
problem?  (I can kinda see this one coming - you a] have your own 
restart script b] have tested every possibility and know Asterisk will 
not ever crash c] your Server rings an alarm bell next to your bed and 
flashes all the house lights if it goes down or d] don't sleep/go on 
holiday)

:)

> again defy you to find a unix application with an interactive shell that 
> quits with ^C, more and less being excepted since they are not what I'd 
> consider interactive shells.

And this is worth my time how exactly?

>>While I'm running it in foreground mode, I want to be able to drop out
>>quickly.  STOP NOW is 9 characters (including enter).  ^C is two.
> 
> Point taken, although like I said I think yours is a very fringe case, what 
> with up-arrow pulling up the last command and all.  :-)

Hmmm, yeah as long as the only command you ever type is STOP NOW, 
otherwise it's still more keystrokes...

Maybe the solution is to have it as a configuration variable in 
features.conf:

quit_when_i_tell_you=yes/no

:)

Ok, I think I've finished being a smart arse and wasting the -dev 
bandwidth for the day.

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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