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  15     <B>Sean Kelly</B>
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  19     <I>Mon Jan 24 20:14:19 PST 2005</I>
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  34 <PRE>On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:43:53AM +0900, Andrew Church wrote:
  35 &gt;<i> &gt;Is there anyway to make ircservices save the databases when they recieve
  36 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;~ like the HUP signal or something so I could save the current info to
  37 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;XML using a shellscript?
  38 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;
  39 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;For ex:
  40 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;killall -HUP ircservices &amp;&amp; ./ircservices -export &gt; foo.xml
  41 </I>&gt;<i>
  42 </I>&gt;<i>      That's an interesting thought; the problem, of course, is that saving
  43 </I>&gt;<i> the databases isn't an instantaneous activity, so you'd need a sleep of
  44 </I>&gt;<i> some length in the middle.  I'll think about it.
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  46 Can't you hold an exclusive lock (flock, lockf, etc) on the database while
  47 writing them and then release it when done writing? That way, the
  48 `ircservices -export` could try to obtain a shared lock (since it is
  49 read-only) and it will spin while the DBs are still being written.
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  52 Sean Kelly         | PGP KeyID: D2E5E296
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