Re: need to read an entry from the db after reading config file

[Forest Hill <forest@apple.com>]

Thanks for your response, Kurt.  After a bunch more hunting around, 
I've basically come to same conclusion for when to do stuff, but the 
how is proving more difficult.  There are lots of places where 
Operation's are constructed, but they all seem to have a ctx to start 
with.  All of the places that create a ctx seem to create it from an 
existing ctx.  How do I create a ctx, or is there a global ctx that 
I'm supposed to use to genesis?

Thanks again!

At 1:27 PM -0700 4/28/04, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> At 02:49 PM 4/26/2004, Forest Hill wrote:
> > I'd like to store some config info in the database, with a 
> > directive in the config file indicating where to look for that 
> > config info. So, I need to search for the entry containing that 
> > data after read_config() finishes, but before the server finishes 
> > starting up.
>
> Assuming the configuration information is database specific, then
> one can do the search as part of the db_open().  If its overlay
> specific, I believe one can overlay a db_open to do the search in.
> If the configuration information is global, then you just need
> to hack the startup to do additonal stuff post read_config()
> but prior to starting the listener thread.
>
> In regards to your second question, one just needs to construct
> a pseudo-Operation to do the search under.  There are a number of
> examples of such in the code.

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