Neither RedHat or Fedora ship with a threaded build of Tcl, so I build my own package and install in parallel with the original. I've been naming the tclsh84 executable nsdsh.
Our tests, such as they are, also need to run in a threaded Tcl shell. Which one? How to find it? Maybe we should build an nsdsh which would load libnsd.so by default and link to the correct Tcl libs. It's also currently quite difficult to test certain aspects of the server. e.g. for cookie handling you really want a connection available, but making actual network connections in a test environment seems a little fragile. So I thought maybe the nsdsh could provide extra testing hooks. It could take a '-t' option on the command line and load a standard server config file, using it to more fully emulate a running server than the current libnsd does. With this option present, stdin could be the request stream, stdout the response, and stderr the log file? It might register some extra _ns_debug_* commands? I'm not sure what the right way to go here is. Would such an nsdsh be useful, or should we just add more to the server binary, or should I just be a bit more creative when writing tests..?
