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Old 07-15-2003, 06:09 AM   #1
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server wrapper script


Hi..

I'm trying to write a Perl program for networking. It's a sort of dummy-inetd. I removed inetd from my system, because I doesn't really suits my needs. Now, I'm using hoywayd to download my e-mail, and it's fully based on inetd.

So I started writing a wrapper-script in Perl. (also as excercise) This is what I got so far: everything is working, but the program terminates when I close the first connection.

Is there anyone with a little UNIX networking experience able to help me?

I've seen some pieces of code with 'vec' and 'select', but I didn't understand those system calls. The secoond time, the accept() call seams to fail.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$0='hotwayd-server';
my $listen_address = '127.0.0.1';
my $listen_port    = '1100';

use strict;
use IO::Socket::INET;
use POSIX qw(:sys_wait_h setsid);

my $INET_EOL = '\015\012';




# -----------------------------------------------
# Start the server socket

my $server = new IO::Socket::INET(
                                   LocalAddr => $listen_address,
                                   LocalPort => $listen_port,
                                   Proto     => 'tcp',
	   			   Timeout   => undef,
				   Reuse     => 1,
				   Listen    => 5,
                                 )
             or
	     die "hotwayd-server: couldn't spawn server: $!\n";


# -----------------------------------------------
# Action to be taken on shutdown:


sub clean_up
{
  $server->close() if defined $server;
}



# -----------------------------------------------
# Daemonize

sub daemonize()
{
  open(STDIN, '/dev/null')                  or die "Can't read /dev/null: $!"; 
  open(STDOUT, '>/dev/null')                or die "Can't write to /dev/null: $!";
  open(STDERR, '>/tmp/hotwayd-server.log')  or die "Can't write to /tmp/hotwayd-server.log: $!";

  defined(my $pid = fork)   or die "Can't fork: $!";
  exit if $pid;
  setsid()                  or die "Can't start a new session: $!";
}


# -----------------------------------------------
# Create PID file, fork into background.

# Handle shutdown
#$SIG{'INT'}  = \&clean_up;
#$SIG{'TERM'} = \&clean_up;
#$SIG{'QUIT'} = \&clean_up;
#$SIG{'__DIE__'} = \&clean_up;




# -----------------------------------------------
# Reading exit status of child processes.

  # We need to read the exit status of terminating child processes,
  # so the kernel can clean-up this last piece of process-information
  # from the process-table.  (or the child will remain a zombie until we die)

sub REAPER
{
  # Perform a wait for every child.
  my $child_pid;
  do
  {
    my $child_pid = waitpid(-1, WNOHANG);
  }
  while(defined $child_pid && $child_pid > 0);

  $SIG{'CHLD'} = \&REAPER;  # set again (still loathe sysV)
}

$SIG{'CHLD'} = \&REAPER;





# -----------------------------------------------
# Wait for incoming connections

$server->autoflush(1);
$server->listen();

daemonize();

while(my $socket = $server->accept())
{

  # Fork the client
  my $child = fork();

  if(! defined $child)
  {
    # Still in parent, unable to fork
    print $socket "-ERR unable to open session: $!!$INET_EOL";
    $socket->close();

    die "hotwayd-server: unable to fork child: $!\n";
  }
  elsif($child == 0)
  {
    # Inside child process.

    # dup the socket handels to STDIN and STDOUT in child process
    local *SOCKET_HANDLE;
    *SOCKET_HANDLE = *$socket;
    open(STDIN,  "<&*SOCKET_HANDLE") or die "hotwayd-server: unable to dup socket to STDIN:  $!\n";
    open(STDOUT, ">&*SOCKET_HANDLE") or die "hotwayd-server: unable to dup socket to STDOUT: $!\n";

    # leave STDERR untouched

    # Run the hotwayd program
    exec('/opt/hotwayd/sbin/hotwayd');
    die "hotwayd-server: unable to exec: $!\n";

    # Never goes beyond this line...
  }
}


clean_up();
 
Old 08-01-2003, 01:22 PM   #2
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You should take a look at the Net:aemon package on CPAN. It does most (perhaps all) of what you're trying to do. I'm using it, and it works well for me.
 
Old 08-02-2003, 11:09 AM   #3
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OK thanks :-) I'll check it out soon. It sounds much like what I need.

Oh and maybe I'll try to do this in C too, because I could use some exercise (just found out that one school book of mine explains some UNIX network calls)
 
  


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