Howdy everyone, I committed code to re-architect bmc-info. Please ensure that this re-architecture is carried into atleast the new tools (ipmi-pef, ipmi-chassis, etc.) and when you have time, try to carry them over to ipmi-sel, ipmi-sensors, etc. I will work on the other tools when I have time as well. They are for later hostrange support in the tools. In particular, the re-architecture requires:
A) Removing all globals and putting any program information into a structure that can be passed around to all functions doing the "core" grunt work of the tool. This sets up thread safety for later. B) Move all "core code" out of main(). Create a function that can be called by main() to do the entire body of work for the tool. This function should be passed the program structure from 'A'. The function should return the exit code it would like main to exit with. This re-architecture sets up the pthread_create() call for later. C) Remove all exit() calls in the "core code" and ensure the only time the program exits is in main. Errors should be handled by return -1 or NULL etc. and propagated back into the function created by 'B', of which the function in 'B' can decide what the exit code for the program should be. This prevents early termination based on errors and ensures the correct exit code for each thread can be carried until the end. Please see the changes to bmc-info and you'll see what I mean. Thanks, Al -- Albert Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 925-422-5311 Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
