Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: Re: Variable convergence mystery
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,26796,26824#msg-26824

Mark Burgess Wrote:
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> 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.

Do you mean that classes and vars are evaluated up to three times within each 
of the three normal client runs?  For example:


bundle mybundle

        vars (1)
        classes (1)

        vars (2)
        classes (2)

        vars (3)
        classes (3)

        files (1)
        methods (1)
        ...
        reports (1)

bundle mybundle

        vars (1)
        classes (1)

        vars (2)
        classes (2)

        vars (3)
        classes (3)

        files (2)
        methods (2)
        ...
        reports (2)

bundle mybundle

        vars (1)
        classes (1)

        vars (2)
        classes (2)

        vars (3)
        classes (3)

        files (3)
        methods (3)
        ...
        reports (3)


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