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|    Deucе to GitLab issue in main/sbbs    |
|    External Program mutually exclusive grou    |
|    25 Oct 25 08:35:29    |
      TZUTC: -0700       MSGID: 58762.sync_sys@1:103/705 2d6309cb       PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/88b423313 Sep 29 2025 GCC 12.2.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.30-Linux master/88b423313 Sep 29 2025 GCC 12.2.0       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: UTF-8 4       FORMAT: flowed       open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/998              It would be nice to be able to group external programs into a mutually       exclusive group.              The Clans is a single-node door, and there's two extra events that need to be       configured for it, maintenance via `clans /m` and interbbs processing via       `clans /i`.              While `CLANSMAINT` is easy enough to accommodate by making it exclusive,       `CLANSIBBS` isn't so simple... I want it to run as soon as possible after a       packet file is received, and would like to have a semaphore kick it off.              So, being able to make the door `CLANS`, and the two timed events `CLANSMAINT`       and `CLANSIBBS` part of an exclusive group where only one can run at a time       and they'll all wait until the others are complete before starting would       really make this easy.              For The Clans specifically, I plan to add support to do this using the       "online" file semaphore it uses to protect against multiple nodes running the       door, but it would be nice if Synchronet had this itself for any other similar       doors.       --- SBBSecho 3.30-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 102/401 103/1 13 17 705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/187       SEEN-BY: 129/14 153/7715 154/110 214/22 218/0 1 215 601 610 700 840       SEEN-BY: 218/860 880 226/30 227/114 229/110 206 317 400 426 428 470       SEEN-BY: 229/700 705 266/512 280/464 291/111 301/1 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 902/26 5075/35       PATH: 103/705 218/700 229/426           |
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