Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:27:33 -0700
From: Russell E Owen
Subject: TCC change: TELSTOP improved
$ telstop is now much more thorough, in that it now kills all users
of the TCC command interpreter. This should completely eliminate any
need to kill users of the TCC command interpreter interactively.
telstop followed by telrun will now fix nearly any problem with no
further intervention.
One benefit of this improvement is solution of a recent problem:
telstop followed by telrun would often fail with a message about no
more users allowed. This was a side effect of the new user number
system.
However, the new telstop does not provide a perfect fix to the
problem. An old weakness remains: nobody must try to use the TCC
software while the software is being started up. Otherwise many
things can go wrong, one of which is the above-mentioned problem. A
good long-term solution involves some reliable means of locking out
other users while the TCC software starts up. I am considering
options, but am not in a big hurry, as this particular weakness has
been present for years and caused very little trouble.
-- Russell