[Pipet Devel] dl2bl file not written

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Jarl van Katwijk wrote:
> 
> I think the problem is that ./runpiper executes the BL too soon after
> the PL is still booting up. If you know how to build in a delay before
> the execution of the BL the problem is probably gone. Could you check
> this out, I tried to find the Python code for a delay, but couldn't find
> any.

For a better, permanent solution, can we at some point have the PL (or each
layer) "say" that they are ready?  Can we have the PL place its PID in a file
somewhere?

I just think that an arbitrary delay might not always work.  What if the PL is
on a slower computer and requires more time than N seconds?  And, on faster
computers the PL might start much quicker than N seconds.

Jeff
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J.W. Bizzaro                                           jeff at bioinformatics.org
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