idle_timeout processing in the parent smbd?

[simo]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 14:01 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:50:43AM -0700, James Peach wrote:
> > Not sure about this. I think this depends on how you define idleness,  
> > see below.
> 
> Recently I also had a quick chat with Tridge about adding
> real idle events. For example disconnecting an idle LDAP
> connection is nothing you want to spend time on if you're
> really busy doing other things. Right now this is a normal
> timed event that is run when it's time has come. I'm not
> sure about the API that this would need, but if we added
> that to lib/events.c we would have a good way to determine
> if we have real work in the queue.
> 
> What to others think about an idle event API that says
> "please run me every minute if you can, but every ten
> minutes at least" or something like this?

Real Idle events could be quite useful for any protocol, if it is not
too difficult to add them I'd be favorable.

Simo.

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