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;;;; base.scm -- core procedures
;;; Copyright © 2003 Dale Mellor <dale_mellor@users.sourceforge.net>
;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Mcron.
;;;
;;; GNU Mcron is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
;;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
;;; (at your option) any later version.
;;;
;;; GNU Mcron is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;;;
;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;;; along with GNU Mcron.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

(define-module (mcron base)
  #:use-module (ice-9 match)
  #:use-module (mcron environment)
  #:use-module (srfi srfi-9)
  #:export     (add-job
                remove-user-jobs
                get-schedule
                run-job-loop
                   ;; These three are deprecated and not documented.
                use-system-job-list
                use-user-job-list
                clear-system-jobs)
  #:re-export  (clear-environment-mods
                append-environment-mods))


(use-modules (srfi srfi-1)    ;; For remove.
             (srfi srfi-2))   ;; For and-let*.



;; The list of all jobs known to the system. Each element of the list is
;;
;;  (make-job user next-time-function action environment displayable next-time)
;;
;; where action must be a procedure, and the environment is an alist of
;; modifications that need making to the UNIX environment before the action is
;; run. The next-time element is the only one that is modified during the
;; running of a cron process (i.e. all the others are set once and for all at
;; configuration time).
;;
;; The reason we maintain two lists is that jobs in /etc/crontab may be placed
;; in one, and all other jobs go in the other. This makes it possible to remove
;; all the jobs in the first list in one go, and separately we can remove all
;; jobs from the second list which belong to a particular user. This behaviour
;; is required for full vixie compatibility.

(define system-job-list '())
(define user-job-list '())

(define configuration-source 'user)

(define (use-system-job-list) (set! configuration-source 'system))
(define (use-user-job-list) (set! configuration-source 'user))

;; A cron job.
(define-record-type <job>
  (make-job user time-proc action environment displayable next-time)
  job?
  (user        job:user)                ;object : passwd entry
  (time-proc   job:next-time-function)  ;proc   : with one 'time' parameter
  (action      job:action)              ;thunk  : user's code
  (environment job:environment)         ;alist  : environment variables
  (displayable job:displayable)         ;string : visible in schedule
  (next-time   job:next-time            ;number : time in UNIX format
               job:next-time-set!))

;; Remove jobs from the user-job-list belonging to this user.

(define (remove-user-jobs user)
  (if (or (string? user)
          (integer? user))
      (set! user (getpw user)))
    (set! user-job-list
          (remove (lambda (job) (eqv? (passwd:uid user)
                                      (passwd:uid (job:user job))))
                  user-job-list)))



;; Remove all the jobs on the system job list.

(define (clear-system-jobs) (set! system-job-list '()))



;; Add a new job with the given specifications to the head of the appropriate
;; jobs list.

(define (add-job time-proc action displayable configuration-time
                 configuration-user)
  (let ((entry (make-job configuration-user
                         time-proc
                         action
                         (get-current-environment-mods-copy)
                         displayable
                         (time-proc configuration-time))))
    (if (eq? configuration-source 'user)
      (set! user-job-list (cons entry user-job-list))
      (set! system-job-list (cons entry system-job-list)))))



;; Procedure to locate the jobs in the global job-list with the lowest
;; (soonest) next-times. These are the jobs for which we must schedule the mcron
;; program (under any personality) to next wake up. The return value is a cons
;; cell consisting of the next time (maintained in the next-time variable) and a
;; list of the job entries that are to run at this time (maintained in the
;; next-jobs-list variable).
;;
;; The procedure works by first obtaining the time of the first job on the list,
;; and setting this job in the next-jobs-list. Then for each other entry on the
;; job-list, either the job runs earlier than any other that have been scanned,
;; in which case the next-time and next-jobs-list are re-initialized to
;; accomodate, or the job runs at the same time as the next job, in which case
;; the next-jobs-list is simply augmented with the new job, or else the job runs
;; later than others noted in which case we ignore it for now and continue to
;; recurse the list.

(define (find-next-jobs)
  (let ((job-list (append system-job-list user-job-list)))
    
    (if (null? job-list)
        
        '(#f . '())
        
        (let ((next-time 2000000000)
              (next-jobs-list '()))

          (for-each
           (lambda (job)
             (let ((this-time (job:next-time job)))
               (cond ((< this-time next-time)
                          (set! next-time this-time)
                          (set! next-jobs-list (list job)))
                     ((eqv? this-time next-time)
                          (set! next-jobs-list (cons job next-jobs-list))))))
           job-list)

          (cons next-time next-jobs-list)))))



;; Create a string containing a textual list of the next count jobs to run.
;;
;; Enter a loop of displaying the next set of jobs to run, artificially
;; forwarding the time to the next time point (instead of waiting for it to
;; occur as we would do in a normal run of mcron), and recurse around the loop
;; count times.
;;
;; Note that this has the effect of mutating the job timings. Thus the program
;; must exit after calling this function; the internal data state will be left
;; unusable.

(define (get-schedule count)
  (with-output-to-string
    (lambda ()
      (do ((count count (- count 1)))
          ((eqv? count 0))
        (and-let*
         ((next-jobs (find-next-jobs))
          (time (car next-jobs))
          (date-string (strftime "%c %z\n" (localtime time))))
         (for-each (lambda (job)
                     (display date-string)
                     (display (job:displayable job))
                     (newline)(newline)
                     (job:next-time-set! job ((job:next-time-function job)
                                              (job:next-time job))))
                   (cdr next-jobs)))))))



;; For proper housekeeping, it is necessary to keep a record of the number of
;; child processes we fork off to run the jobs.

(define number-children 0)



;; For every job on the list, fork a process to run it (noting the fact by
;; increasing the number-children counter), and in the new process set up the
;; run-time environment exactly as it should be before running the job proper.
;;
;; In the parent, update the job entry by computing the next time the job needs
;; to run.

(define (run-jobs jobs-list)
  (for-each
   (lambda (job)
     (if (eqv? (primitive-fork) 0)
         (dynamic-wind
           (const #t)
           (lambda ()
             (setgid (passwd:gid (job:user job)))
             (setuid (passwd:uid (job:user job)))
             (chdir (passwd:dir (job:user job)))
             (modify-environment (job:environment job) (job:user job))
             ((job:action job)))
           (lambda ()
             (primitive-exit 0)))
         (begin
           (set! number-children (+ number-children 1))
           (job:next-time-set! job ((job:next-time-function job)
                                    (current-time))))))
   jobs-list))



;; Give any zombie children a chance to die, and decrease the number known to
;; exist.

(define (child-cleanup)
  (do () ((or (<= number-children 0)
	      (eqv? (car (waitpid WAIT_ANY WNOHANG)) 0)))
    (set! number-children (- number-children 1))))

(define* (run-job-loop #:optional fd-list)
  ;; Loop over all job specifications, get a list of the next ones to run (may
  ;; be more than one).  Set an alarm and go to sleep.  When we wake, run the
  ;; jobs and reap any children (old jobs) that have completed. Repeat ad
  ;; infinitum.
  ;;
  ;; Note that, if we wake ahead of time, it can only mean that a signal has
  ;; been sent by a crontab job to tell us to re-read a crontab file.  In this
  ;; case we break out of the loop here, and let the main procedure deal with
  ;; the situation (it will eventually re-call this function, thus maintaining
  ;; the loop).
  (call-with-current-continuation
   (lambda (break)
     (let loop ()
       (match (find-next-jobs)
         ((next-time . next-jobs-lst)
          (let ((sleep-time (if next-time
                                (- next-time (current-time))
                                2000000000)))
            (when (and
                   (> sleep-time 0)
                   (not (null? (catch 'system-error
                                 (λ ()
                                   (car (select fd-list '() '() sleep-time)))
                                 (λ (key . args)
                                   (let ((err (car (last args))))
                                     (cond ((member err (list EINTR EAGAIN))
                                            (child-cleanup)
                                            '())
                                           (else
                                            (apply throw key args)))))))))
              (break))
            (run-jobs next-jobs-lst)
            (child-cleanup)
            (loop))))))))