* Add makefile
* Use makefile for builds
* Fix start_server command on Windows
* Use `&` for backgrounding
Since mingw on Windows provides a bash shell, we can just use this
* Use `cmd` as shell for Windows builds
* Use `start` for backgrounding on Windows
* No need for chmod
* Specify target for server to start up
* Sleep to let the server start up
* Update build docs
* Remove the pid file if runtime errors occur
* Clean up error handling and fix pid file creation
The pid file was being created before evaluating the args, now it may
happen that incorrect args or --help was passed: in that event, the pid
file remains created. This was also fixed, besides some refactoring.
* Deter other processes from using the same data dir
For more information, see #167
* Don't lock `pid_file`
Windows has mandatory locking so second instance won't be able to read
the PID of the other process. We'll just keep the file descriptor/handle
open
This is very useful because it removes the need for user intervention in
the event save on termination fails. Say the save operation fails due to
'some bad daemon' changing the directory's perms. Now skyd reports this
error while trying to save upon termination. Our sysadmin now fixes the
perms issue. The previous design would force the sysadmin to _somehow_
foreground skyd and hit enter. That is silly. The new design just
attempts to do a save operation every 10 seconds. So in case the issue
is fixed, the save operation will recover on its own.
Why not exponential backoff?
That's because the issue can be fixed some long time later and we may
have reached a large backoff value so the save that could have succeeded
would have to wait for a long duration before it can do anything
meaningful.
This also fixes a bug that caused BGSAVE errors to be reported as info
class log entries.
* Explicitly fsync and relax CPU on snap busy-loop
This commit also switches to using global `VERSION` and `URL` statics
than defining it per-crate.
* Add changelog entry and bump up version
* Optimize `dbtest` macro and rm redundant allocs
* Upgrade deps
This is a silly optimization but can be significantly faster for larger
action names. Also, since there are (should be) no UTF-8 characters in
the first argument, this is absolutely fine and sensible.
* Stop accepting writes if snapshotting fails
This is an important consideration: if BGSAVE fails and poisons the
database, snapshotting can and should too. But this is debatable in some
parts. For example, users may configure snapshots to be on a network
file system (symlinked maybe) and this can fail.
Now in some cases, this failure 'may be acceptable'. This commit adds a
way to customize this behavior through the `failsafe` key in the
snapshots section of the cfg file and through the --stop-write-on-fail
option passed to `skyd` on startup. However, BGSAVE remains unchanged:
it will always poison the database if it fails. If the user doesn't want
this, they can simply disable BGSAVE.
* Add changelog
* Bump up version, add changelog and update scripts
* Fix actiondoc
* Drop all `since` keys
Since our docs are now well versioned and doesn't read these keys
anymore, we can safely remove them.
Sayan Nandan
Glydr