> Is there any way to "nicely" quit deschall? What I have in mind is a
> way to tell deschall "Finish the current range, but when you finish,
> don't request any new range--just quit."
Currently, there's no "nice" way to quit it. Killing the program before
it's done with a block only results in the loss of the work partially done
on the block.
I agree that it would be a nice feature to have, but do people really
need it? I run my clients 24/7, except for a 30 minute block while I
collect statistics. Unless you're constantly starting and stopping the
client, it shouldn't be a big deal.
> If not, it would be a nice feature. The way _I_ would do it would be
> to use a signal (SIGALRM?) to tell the client to finish nicely.
Exactly what I was thinking. Maybe it'll show up in a later version of
the clients... :-)
Justin Dolske <URL:http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~dolske/>
(dolske@cis.ohio-state.edu)
Graduate Fellow / Research Associate at The Ohio State University, CIS Dept.
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