Knowing the algorithm is not going to help anyone to understand it as there are too many "variable issues".
The algorithm is simple: every attempt is made to converge variables based on knowledge of defined classes, whenever they are encountered in a scheduled promise, going around up to three times to resolve missing references. This is order dependent since a circular dependency has to start from somewhere, so we choose the order the promises are defined. On 07/31/2012 07:49 PM, Diego Zamboni wrote: > Hi Neil, > >> I've learned something new today. Now I had a question. If agent >> re-evaluates vars and classes more than in the normal ordering of other >> promise types then what is the algorithm? How can we mortals similate in our >> minds what the agent will do? > I honestly don't know the details of the algorithm - I have not read the code > in such detail. AFAIK, this should be the only special case. It should > probably be more prominently mentioned in the documentation. > > Maybe one of the developers wants to pitch in and clarify about this topic? > > --Diego > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- CTO and Founder CFEngine http://www.cfengine.com http://www.markburgess.org Twitter: @markburgess_osl, @CFEngine_news _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
