Pleas ignore the exit(0) in the fail connect() condition. I have removed it
since non blocking connect will return <0 anyways. still the output I get is
connecting failed
DISPATCHING
IN CB CONNECT
IN CB CHECKSTATUS
ADDED READ EVENT


On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:34 PM Salman Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to connect to the local openvpn client over its managment
> socket and query its state/status.
>
> I have implemented the follow program with libevent support.
>
>
> #include <stdio.h>#include <stdlib.h>#include <sys/socket.h>#include 
> <arpa/inet.h>#include <event2/event.h>#include <fcntl.h>#include <string.h>
> char message[1000], server_reply[2000];struct event *ev, *ev1, *ev2;
> void cb_func_hold_release(evutil_socket_t fd, short what, void *arg){
>     int sock = *(int *)arg;
>     struct timeval one_seconds = {1,0};
>     printf("IN CB CONNECT\n");
>     sprintf (message, "hold release\n");
>     if (send (sock, message, strlen (message), 0) < 0) {
>         printf("send failed\n");
>     }
>     event_add(ev1, NULL);}
> void cb_func_write(evutil_socket_t fd, short what, void *arg){
>     int sock = *(int *)arg;
>     printf("IN CB CHECKSTATUS\n");
>     sprintf (message, "status\n");
>     if (send (sock, message, strlen (message), 0) < 0) {
>         printf("send failed\n");
>     }
>     /*
>         int reclen = recv (sock, server_reply, 2000, 0);
>         if (reclen < 0) {
>             printf("recving failed");
>         } else {
>             if (reclen > 1) {
>                 server_reply[reclen-1] = '\0';
>             }
>             printf("SERVER REPLT< %s\n", server_reply);
>         }
>         if (strstr(message, "CONNECTED")) {
>             printf("VPN CONNECTED");
>         }
>     */
>     event_add(ev2, NULL);
>     if (event_pending(ev2,EV_READ|EV_PERSIST, NULL)) {
>         printf("ADDED READ EVENT\n");
>
>     }}
> void cb_func_read(evutil_socket_t fd, short what, void *arg){
>     int sock = *(int *)arg;
>     printf("IN CB READ\n");
>     int reclen = recv (sock, server_reply, 2000, 0);
>     if (reclen < 0) {
>         printf("recving failed");
>     } else {
>         if (reclen > 1) {
>             server_reply[reclen-1] = '\0';
>         }
>         printf("SERVER REPLY %s\n", server_reply);
>     }
>     if (strstr(message, "CONNECTED")) {
>         printf("VPN CONNECTED");
>     }
> }
> int main(void){
>     int flags;
>     int mgmretry = 0;
>     int sock = 0;
>     struct sockaddr_in server;
>
>     struct timeval five_seconds = {1,0};
>     struct event_base *base = event_base_new();
>
>
>     ev = event_new(base, sock, EV_TIMEOUT, cb_func_hold_release, &sock);
>     ev1 = event_new(base, sock, EV_WRITE, cb_func_write, &sock);
>     ev2 = event_new(base, sock, EV_READ, cb_func_read, &sock);
>
>     sock = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
>     if (sock == -1) {
>         printf("COUILD NOT CREATE SOCKET\n");
>         exit(0);
>     }
>     evutil_make_socket_nonblocking(sock);
>
>     server.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
>     server.sin_family = AF_INET;
>     server.sin_port = htons (12345);
>
>     if (connect (sock, (struct sockaddr *)&server, sizeof (server)) < 0) {
>         printf("connecting failed\n");
>         exit(0);
>     }
>
>
>
>     event_add(ev, &five_seconds);
>     printf("DISPATCHING\n");
>     event_base_dispatch(base);
> }
>
> The issue is the the read callback "cb_func_read" is not being triggered.
> My expectation is that after I send the "status" message to the vpn from
> cb_func_write(), there is some data sent back which should trigger the read
> callback but that's not happening.
>
> If I recv() directly after send() in the write callback(the commented
> portion) I can print the response sent from openvpn so the communication
> between these two are working.
>

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