[hobbit] adding extra channel

[Stef Coene]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 12:50, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> The attached patch should do it. It creates a "user" channel that is fed
> the messages you send with
>    $BB $BBDISP "usermsg HOSTNAME ... your custom message here ..."
>
> On the server side, run
>    hobbitd_channel --channel=user YOURCUSTOMCOMMAND
> to pick up the messages.
>
> I've set the max size of such messages at 128 KB (random number), but
> you can tune it by setting MAXMSG_USER to something else and restarting
> Hobbit. Note that as always, OS limits may need to be tweaked since this
> adds an extra shared memory segment and a couple of semaphore items. If
> you suddenly cannot start Hobbit and it complains about "cannot setup
> user channel", then that's your problem.
>
>
> Henrik
Henrik, if you are ever in Belgium of the Netherlands, let me know, and I will 
be you a drink.
Nice job.


Stef