Re: [coLinux-users] 0.7.1 and no more '-a #' switch...

[Simon D. <Sim...@ya...>]

>From Henry Nestler:

>> Now what would be be really sweet was if colinux-console-* could
>> simply accept the name of a running coLinux service to attach to.
>
> Ok, that is an solution for services.  What does command prompt starts?
>
> If you not give any params to colinux-console-*, then the first colinux
> will be attach.  Inside the source you will see  comment 'todo: add not
> only the first console here' (or so).
>
> Do not create a new tool.  Better you add a new param to the
> colinux-console-*,  for sample '-i N' where N is the number of colinux.

And that's pretty much how the old '-a' switch used to work.  The only
weakness with that old mechanism was the issue of ambiguity: if a later
instance started before an earlier instance (for whatever reason) then
those instance numbers would not be in the predicted order.  It wasn't
a problem in any way, shape or form.  But it caught me out a few times.
;-)

Anyway, to resolve the ambiguity of the earlier '-a' switch, coLinux-daemon
would need a complementary '-i N' parameter.

However, I feel that a '-n <name>' parameter for coLinux-daemon would work
better *if*: a) coLinux-console-* could attach to a *named* instance with
its own complementary '-n <name>' parameter, and b) the names of running
instances could be enumerated (this would be useful for future management
consoles because you could tell at a glance which instance you're dealing 
with).

I'd be tempted to patch 0.7.1, but I wouldn't know where to start.


		
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