This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
The output of processes can be gathered, and passed back to the callee.
(This commit just implements the basic functionality and tests.)
After the preparation in previous commits, the change in functionality is
relatively simple. For coding convenience, alarm is prepared *before* any
children are executed, and not before. This shouldn't matter usually, since
just forking of the children should be pretty quick. One could also argue that
this is more correct, because we will also catch the case when (for whatever
reason), forking itself is slow.
Three callback functions and three levels of serialization are used:
- from individual generator processes to the generator forker
- from the forker back to the main process
- deserialization in the main process
v2:
- replace an structure with an indexed array of callbacks
