[DGD] object finding

[Shentino]

Sorry to be a pest, but would it be difficult to make the status(obj)
kfun also return the names of inherited objects?

On 5/2/06, Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok thanks.
>
> On 5/1/06, Felix A. Croes <felix at dworkin.nl> wrote:
> > Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, finding all objects with find_object(int) (or, more usefully,
> > > status(int)) would be useful to me in crash situations.
> > >
> > > Suppose that objectd goes belly up and I manage to lose all my
> > > information...and suppose that pathologically another piece of code
> > > picked that precise moment to do a statedump and I don't find out
> > > until it's too late to go back to a known good state.  Being able to
> > > rebuild objectd's database from scratch would be exactly the sort of
> > > thing that find_object(int) (or status(int)) would come in handy for.
> >
> > But only that.  The usual purpose of the objectd is to make possible
> > the recompilation of any object and all that it inherits from.  The
> > inheritance information would still be lost.
> >
> > If losing objectd state is what you worry about, it isn't so difficult
> > to let objectd perform a swift consistency check before each statedump,
> > aborting with an error -- preventing the statedump -- if any problem
> > is found.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dworkin
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