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Thoughts about different UNIX-IPC, Nico Schottelius 2005-04-28
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Howto cinit communicates with
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a) cinit-forks
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b) any other program
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a) cinit-forks
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a.1) shared memory
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Access could generally be done with shared memory. The problem with
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that is, that -lrt is required, which implicits -lpthread, which
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makes linking staticly problematic (at least for glibc).
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a.2) pipes
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A maximum of ~510 pipes could be used ( (1024-3)/2),
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1024=max fds, -3=already opened (stderr/stdin/stdout), /2=
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two fds needed per clients).
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Pipes cannot be use easily through forks of forks.
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a.3) fifos
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FIFOs are easy to use, but you would need to create two FIFOs
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for _every_ service, as with only two FIFOs we cannot reliable
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detect, _who_ is writting to us currently and who wants to read.
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a.4) system-v-ipc
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No documentation found nor tested.
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a.5) sockets
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Are indeed a very clean way. There's only one problem:
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bind() fails on read-only mounted devices:
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- The socket either does not exists and cannot be created
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- or the socket exists, but bind() refuses to reuse it
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(error: Address already in use)
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Imho bind() should even honour the socket-option SO_REUSEADDR,
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which allows to re-use a socket, if there's no other program bound to.
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As far as I can see, SO_REUSEADDR is only honoured, if socket is of
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type PF_INET (we use PF_UNIX) and POSIX does only specify how to
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check for support, but not that sockets have to be able to use
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SO_REUSEADDR.
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That way, we are forced to mount a temporarily filesystem on
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/etc/cinit/tmp and create the socket below this directory. This is not
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the clean and easy solution one would wish. Still, sockets
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seem to be the cleanest and most reliable way to have IPC for
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this situation.
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See socket(2), bind(2), listen(2), accept(2), socket(7) and unix(7)
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for help.
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b) any other program
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What you can do is to tell cinit to
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- reboot,
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- halt and
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- poweroff.
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Simple send cinit a signal, what to do:
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SIGUSR1: reboot
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SIGUSR2: poweroff
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TERM: halt
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See signal(2) and signal(7) for help and serv/sig_reboot.c for implementation.
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