[icecast-dev] ices: forcing an immediate reread of the playlist

[Michael Smith]

At 12:32 PM 3/19/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>	I'm currently trying to set up ices2 with icecast2 along with otto, a 
>jukebox interface written in perl. Otto allows the user to kill a song via 
>the web interface, which in turn kills all running instances of ices, 
>rewrites the playlist and launches ices. This has the bad side effect of 
>terminating the client's connection to icecast and leaving a bunch of ices 
>dangling . I'd like to be able to have otto spawn a single instance of ices 
>at startup, and then signal ices when the user has selected the next song.
>
>	As far as I can tell im_playlist doesn't check for pl->nexttrack until it 
>is at the end of the file. What would be the best way to force this tight 
>loop to immediately reread it's playlist? I see two options

It'll skip to the next file if you send ices SIGHUP (I think. I may have
ended up using a different signal). It definately doesn't wait until
end of file to check that.

Michael

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