Author Topic: starting a bot from a bot (Read 1659 times)

Nytridr · « **on:** July 29, 2007, 12:28:37 am »

is there a way to start a bot from a bot? I mean I have a bot that I never need excpet for certain things, and dont need to keep it running. is there a way to have the bot started from in game?

Khalem · « **Reply #1 on:** July 29, 2007, 02:26:15 am »

Technically you can likely use exec() if it is allowed by your PHP configuration.

http://no2.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php

Vhab · « **Reply #2 on:** July 29, 2007, 09:19:41 am »

Doesn't that freeze the calling process till the new process stops?

kuznechik · « **Reply #3 on:** July 29, 2007, 10:22:31 am »

Hm, any reason to not have that bot running always? Not that it generates much traffic or CPU load...

Vhab · « **Reply #4 on:** July 29, 2007, 08:51:42 pm »

Well, if the process froze it means the bot "running" the other bot would go unresponsive.
Example: bot1 starts bot2, bot2 works fine, bot1 doesn't respond till bot2 shuts down.
Not really an effective solution.
That would be if exec() is used.