[MTOS-dev] Background Task Change

[Reed A. Cartwright]

Hirotaka Ogawa wrote:
> 
> uum. We can do run tasks in a take_down callback function as like:
> 
> Isn't it enough?

Yeah, that'd work with the current implementation, but imagine if there 
are several different plugins, all wanting to 'finish' the connection 
before executing.  Then it is a waste of code for all of them to finish 
an already finished connection.  I think it is simply better from a 
development stand point to officially have a callback that will execute 
after the connection is finished.  This could be the take_down 
callbacks, or it could be a separate post_finish callback, and let the 
current take_down be a pre_finish callback.

 > Of course, we have another issues.

I think these can be addressed if the ability is built into MTOS instead 
of patched into it.  For me, post_finish is a way to execute appendix 
tasks instead of relying on background tasks.

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