RE: configuration patch - final version

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Martin Pala
> Sent: 11. februar 2003 21:43
> To: The monit developer list
> Subject: Re: configuration patch - final version
>
>
> Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
>
> >So all our remaining tasks are done according to the monit 3.2 release plan,
> >
> Yet one remains - to add Oliver's documentation for monit+heartbeat. I
> can add it if needed too :)

Yes, please! I'll buy you a beer if I visit Czech one day :-)

>
> >I propose that we test
> >the system a few days and release it this Friday, if everything is
> okay. Agree?
> >
> Agree

Okay, Friday it is.

> >I was thinking about Olivier's proposal about writing the state to a
> >"state-file". I suggest that we simply write the processlist to a
> >binary file
>
> It will be probably the simplest way to do it. Maybe it will be suitable
> to use ASN.1 BER rules to encode runtime structures into binary form -
> it defines standard method for encoding/decoding structured data into
> binary format and it will be easier than XML parser (however XML file is
> more user-friendly for edit :)

Much easier than XML, I was simply thinking about using something ala

for(p= processlist; p; p= p->next)
        fwrite(p, 1, sizeof *(p), binaryfile);


I have never heard of ASN.1 BER rules, do you have an URL?

Jan-Henrik