...
 BJ> error level exit.  This is NOT recommended under 
 BJ> OS/2 (or Win32), and probably not recommended in 
 BJ> Linux.  If I remember correctly, the one I use is 
 BJ> the SpawnBBS method, where Binkley starts up the 
 BJ> Max process directly, passing commandline info, 
 BJ> including (under OS/2) the needed handle to the 
 BJ> serial port.  [Under DOS, this passes the fossil 
 BJ> port number.]  I don't remember the third type at 
 BJ> the moment.  
 WG>  
 WG> Any idea why errorlevel-exit isn
 WG> t recommended? It doesn't seem like such a horrible way 
 WG> to do things, although I would personally prefer 
 WG> spawning the BBS directly from the mailer (assuming the 
 WG> mailer doesn't try and diddle the com port into the 
 WG> controlling tty or something equally annoying). 

Now that I understand how you are planning the intial modem implementation
under linux, we probably can directly use the error level exit as one
methoid under Linux.  In OS/2, Binkley is passing a handle to the open
port, which doesn't work if you close the program (exit) and let another
program start.  Under Win32, when you drop back to the shell (with the
program exiting), it causes DTR to drop -- which most BBS sysops use to
drop carrier and hang up the modem connection.....  Since we aren't hitting
either of those with your linux version, I stand corrected that the error
level exit script processing should work.....  If the DTR issue shows up in
Linux, we can always submit code changes to fix that problem.....  (and fix
it on our own systems.)

 WG> How does Bink XE handle the errorlevel exit from Maximus? I have a
"jury 
 WG> rigged" solution in testing right now to "handle" 
 WG> errorlevel exits from the forked maximus child (after 
 WG> accepting a TCP/IP call) which actually re-calls the 
 WG> runbbs.sh shell script and passes it its errorlevel on 
 WG> the command line before dying. This allows me to use a 
 WG> single script to control the ip inbound calls and the 
 WG> serial inbound calls -- and have the serial calls 
 WG> handled as traditionally as possible.

Ok....  We should be able to use both the spawnbbs and error level exit
options in binkley....  But this is just based on my assumption of how
things should be working, based on how things work with DOS and OS/2.....

Take care.....

Bob Jones

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