add eventhandler override

[Michael Friedrich]

Hi,

On 2010-08-17 16:59, Sven Nierlein wrote:
> Currently eventhandlers are executed in the main thread of nagios and block the core until the eventhandler is finished.
> Attached is a patch, which makes it possible for eventhandling neb modules to cancel/override the execution of eventhandlers.
> This is currently only possible with service and host checks. This patch would allow neb modules to stack eventhandlers on
> external queues or even distribute execution of eventhandler.
> This patch should not break the behavior of current neb modules, because their return value is currently ignored and
> execution of eventhandler will only be canceled on returning "NEBERROR_CALLBACKOVERRIDE".
>    

Very nice patch, thanks. Since we've talked about the main purpose too, 
I'll make sure it reaches next upstream release.

Kind regards,
Michael

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