Re: Introducing certain delay between messages

[Jan Derfinak]

Jan Derfinak wrote:

Hello

A accidentally hit the Send button instead of Save. :)

So the last sentence should be:
It is written from scratch, so maybe you need some debugging and tuning.

Best regards.
Jan


> 
> 
> Rodrigo Montiel wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
>> I was researching a little bit about how to introduce a sleep() function
>> before each message is sent.
>> The reason here is because in my country we are being blocked by telcos 
>> for any massive sms campaign attempt in order to preserve the gsm network.
>>
> ...
> 
>>
>> I also have been trying to put some sleep() functions sms_send_single /
>> sms_send_long functions, for instance:
>>
>> ------
>> static gn_error sms_send_single(gn_data *data, struct gn_statemachine
>> *state)
>> {
>>         sleep(60);
>> ------
>>
>> Im not a guru in C coding, have made just some little (stupid) programs.
>> Could you please kindly point me to which function I should review? I do
>> not want to destroy this excellent/complex source code.
> 
> I think it can work. But if you need it because of smsd, I recommend not
> to touch libgnokii code and implement it in smsd code.
> 
> You can introduce such delay in smsd/lowlevel.c:A_SendSMSMessage()
> function. This code add dynamic delay added only if dealy from previous
> message was less than 60 seconds.
> 
> Add
> 
> #include <time.h>
> 
> to includes section of lowlevel.c
> 
> Them modify A_SendSMSMessage function:
>  static gint A_SendSMSMessage (gpointer data)
> {
>   D_SMSMessage *d = (D_SMSMessage *) data;
>   gn_data *dt;
>   gn_error status;
>   static time_t timer = time (NULL);  // added
>   time_t timer_tmp;                   // added
> 
>   if (!d)
> ...
>   gn_data_clear (dt);
>   dt->sms = d->sms;
>   timer_tmp = time (NULL);            // added
>   if ((timer_tmp - timer) < 60)       // added
>     sleep (60 - (timer_tmp - timer)); // added
>   d->status = gn_sms_send (dt, sm);
>   timer = time (NULL);                // added
>   status = d->status;
>   /* we do not use sms reference numbers in smsd */
>   free (dt->sms->reference);
> ...
> }
> 
> 
> It is written from scratch, so maybe you n
>>
>> Thanks in advanced,
>>
>>
>>
>>
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