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+;; Copyright (C) 2003 Dale Mellor
+;;
+;; This program 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 2, or (at your option)
+;; any later version.
+;;
+;; This program 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 this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+;; Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
+;; USA.
+
+
+
+(define-module (mcron core)
+ #:use-module (mcron environment)
+ #: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
+;;
+;; (vector user next-time-function action environment displayable next-time)
+;;
+;; where action may be a string (indicating a shell command) or a list
+;; (indicating scheme code) or 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 elements 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))
+
+
+
+;; Convenience functions for getting and setting the elements of a job object.
+
+(define (job:user job) (vector-ref job 0))
+(define (job:next-time-function job) (vector-ref job 1))
+(define (job:action job) (vector-ref job 2))
+(define (job:environment job) (vector-ref job 3))
+(define (job:displayable job) (vector-ref job 4))
+(define (job:next-time job) (vector-ref job 5))
+(define (job:advance-time! job)
+ (vector-set! job 5 ((job:next-time-function job) (job:next-time job))))
+
+
+
+;; 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)
+ (if (eq? configuration-source 'user)
+ (set! user-job-list (cons (vector configuration-user
+ time-proc
+ action
+ (get-current-environment-mods-copy)
+ displayable
+ (time-proc configuration-time))
+ user-job-list))
+ (set! system-job-list (cons (vector configuration-user
+ time-proc
+ action
+ (get-current-environment-mods-copy)
+ displayable
+ (time-proc configuration-time))
+ 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)))))
+
+
+
+;; If the user has requested a schedule of jobs that will run, we provide the
+;; information here and then get out.
+;;
+;; Start by determining the number of time points in the future that output is
+;; required for. This may be provided on the command line as a parameter to the
+;; --schedule option, or else we assume a default of 8. Having determined this
+;; count we 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.
+
+(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\n" (localtime time))))
+ (for-each (lambda (job) (display date-string)
+ (display (job:displayable job))
+ (newline)(newline)
+ (job:advance-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)
+ (begin
+ (setuid (passwd:uid (job:user job)))
+ (chdir (passwd:dir (job:user job)))
+ (modify-environment (job:environment job) (job:user job))
+ ((job:action job))
+ (primitive-exit 0))
+ (begin
+ (set! number-children (+ number-children 1))
+ (job:advance-time! job))))
+ jobs-list))
+
+
+
+;; Now the main loop. 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.
+
+(define (run-job-loop . fd-list)
+
+ (call-with-current-continuation (lambda (break)
+
+ (let ((fd-list (if (null? fd-list) '() (car fd-list))))
+
+ (let loop ()
+
+ (let* ((next-jobs (find-next-jobs))
+ (next-time (car next-jobs))
+ (next-jobs-list (cdr next-jobs))
+ (sleep-time (if next-time (- next-time (current-time))
+ 2000000000)))
+
+ (and (> sleep-time 0)
+ (if (not (null? (car (select fd-list '() '() sleep-time))))
+ (break)))
+
+ (run-jobs next-jobs-list)
+
+ (do () ((or (<= number-children 0)
+ (eqv? (car (waitpid WAIT_ANY WNOHANG)) 0)))
+ (set! number-children (- number-children 1)))
+
+ (loop)))))))