This adds a new bitfield to `execute_directories()` which allows to
configure whether to ignore non-zero exit statuses of binaries run and
whether to allow parallel execution of commands.
In case errors are not ignored, the exit status of the failed script
will now be returned for error reposrting purposes or other further
future use.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
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.
Double newlines (i.e. one empty lines) are great to structure code. But
let's avoid triple newlines (i.e. two empty lines), quadruple newlines,
quintuple newlines, …, that's just spurious whitespace.
It's an easy way to drop 121 lines of code, and keeps the coding style
of our sources a bit tigther.
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.
In the future we might want to allow additional syntax (for example
"unset VAR". But let's check that the data we're getting does not contain
anything unexpected.
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