Re: Session ending shutdown problem
It was worth asking :o)
Maybe the best you can do is the best you can do. Save the data you can and
shut down. Does saving the data take a long time? If not, you could just
save it continually depending on how quickly it comes in and how long the
file maintenance takes... Just brainstorming (because I have such a stormy
brain)
Tom
"r norman" <r_s_norman@_comcast.net> wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:22:31 -0800, "Tom Serface"
<tom@nospam.camaswood.com> wrote:
This is an eminently sensible suggestion. Saving my data in
QueryEndSession would work for much of the data. Unfortunately one
problem is that communications to external devices have to be shut off
first to ensure that no more data can arrive (these devices will
buffer data until reconnection is established). And that is very
complex because there are worker threads managing the connections. The
save data process itself is rather complex, the state of most class
instances being done during Serialize but others during
deconstruction. I could be 99+% sure that data would be saved this
way but I don't like loose ends. I already save all data periodically
in case of a system or power failure, but this can result in a loss of
several minutes of data. The client can accept that for things like
power failures, but not for maintenance.
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