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+From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] test/smtp-dummy: add --background option and\r
+ functionality\r
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+Cc: Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi>\r
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+Hi Tomi,\r
+\r
+On Tue, Sep 18 2012, Tomi Ollila wrote:\r
+> From: Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi>\r
+>\r
+> When shell executes background process using '&' the scheduling of\r
+> that new process is arbitrary. It could be that smtp-dummy doesn't\r
+> get execution time to listen() it's server socket until some other\r
+> process attempts to connect() to it. The --background option in\r
+> smtp-dummy makes it to go background *after* it started to listen\r
+> its server socket.\r
+>\r
+> When --background option is used, the line "smtp_dummy_pid='<pid>'"\r
+> is printed to stdout from where shell can eval it.\r
+> ---\r
+>\r
+> This is v3 of id:"1323766883-17607-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi"\r
+>\r
+> addressing (some) Dmitry's comments.\r
+>\r
+> test/smtp-dummy.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-\r
+> 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)\r
+>\r
+> diff --git a/test/smtp-dummy.c b/test/smtp-dummy.c\r
+> index 86d4316..bb13668 100644\r
+> --- a/test/smtp-dummy.c\r
+> +++ b/test/smtp-dummy.c\r
+> @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ do_smtp_to_file (FILE *peer, FILE *output)\r
+> int\r
+> main (int argc, char *argv[])\r
+> {\r
+> + const char * progname;\r
+> char *output_filename;\r
+> FILE *peer_file, *output;\r
+> int sock, peer, err;\r
+> @@ -126,9 +127,31 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])\r
+> struct hostent *hostinfo;\r
+> socklen_t peer_addr_len;\r
+> int reuse;\r
+> + int background;\r
+> +\r
+> + progname = argv[0];\r
+> +\r
+> + background = 0;\r
+> + for (; argc >= 2; argc--, argv++) {\r
+> + if (argv[1][0] != '-')\r
+\r
+This is ugly, but all right. I do not think we need to have high\r
+standards for this piece of code :)\r
+\r
+> + break;\r
+> + if (strcmp (argv[1], "--") == 0) {\r
+> + argc--;\r
+> + argv++;\r
+> + break;\r
+> + }\r
+> + if (strcmp (argv[1], "--background") == 0) {\r
+> + background = 1;\r
+> + continue;\r
+> + }\r
+> + fprintf(stderr, "%s: unregognized option '%s'\n",\r
+> + progname, argv[1]);\r
+> + return 1;\r
+> + }\r
+>\r
+> if (argc != 2) {\r
+> - fprintf (stderr, "Usage: %s <output-file>\n", argv[0]);\r
+> + fprintf (stderr,\r
+> + "Usage: %s [--background] <output-file>\n", progname);\r
+> return 1;\r
+> }\r
+>\r
+> @@ -181,6 +204,36 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])\r
+> return 1;\r
+> }\r
+>\r
+> + if (background) {\r
+> + int pid = fork ();\r
+> + if (pid > 0) {\r
+> + printf ("smtp_dummy_pid='%d'\n", pid);\r
+> + fflush (stdout);\r
+> + close (sock);\r
+> + return 0;\r
+> + }\r
+> + if (pid < 0) {\r
+> + fprintf (stderr, "Error: fork() failed: %s\n",\r
+> + strerror (errno));\r
+> + close (sock);\r
+> + return 1;\r
+> + }\r
+> + /* Reached if pid == 0 (the child process). */\r
+> + /* Close stdout so that the one interested in pid value will\r
+> + also get EOF. */\r
+> + close (STDOUT_FILENO);\r
+> + /* dup2() will re-reserve fd of stdout (1) (opportunistically),\r
+> + in case fd of stderr (2) is open. If that was not open we\r
+> + don't care fd of stdout (1) either. */\r
+> + dup2 (STDERR_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO);\r
+> +\r
+> + /* This process is now out of reach of shell's job control.\r
+> + To resolve the rare but possible condition where this\r
+> + "daemon" is started but never connected this process will\r
+> + (only) have 30 seconds to exist. */\r
+> + alarm (30);\r
+\r
+30 seconds is probably enough. If it turns out that we need longer\r
+timeout in some scenario, I'd suggest to call alarm() also when\r
+something is received on the socket to extend the timeout.\r
+\r
+Overall, both patches LGTM.\r
+\r
+-Michal\r