With this patch the model is:
- "print" cleans the data so that non-printable characters get
escaped. This is not necessarily reversible.
- to print in a reversible way, one can go through
escape_string(); this escapes backslashes as well to make the
decoding non-ambigious.
- Logging always escapes similar to escape_string(), making it
reversible.
Compared to master, we also change the escaping as follows:
- We now only escape with "\xXX", no more "^X" or "\0". Exception:
backslashes.
- We escape backlashes as "\\".
- There's no "alternative" output style anymore, i.e., fmt() '%A'
qualifier is gone.
Baselines in testing/btest are updated, external tests not yet.
Addresses BIT-1333.
- Primarily working around an issue that occurs when threads
concurrently create pipes and fork a child process. See comment in
code...
- Other minor cleanup of the code: making sure the child process calls
_exit() versus exit(), limits itself to few select system calls before
the exec(), and closes more unused file descriptors.
* send end_of_data event for all kind of streams
* send process_finished event containing exit code of child process for executed programs
* move raw-tests to separate directory
* expose name of input stream to readers
* better handling of some error cases in raw reader
* new force_kill option for raw reader which SIGKILLs progesses on exit
The ordering of events how they arrive in the main loop is a bit peculiar at the moment.
The process_finished event arrives in scriptland before all of the other events, even though
it should be sent last. I have not yet fully figured that out.
