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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ */
/***
  This file is part of systemd.

  Copyright 2013 Lennart Poettering

  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  systemd 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
  Lesser General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
  along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
***/

#include <errno.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include "async.h"
#include "fd-util.h"
#include "log.h"
#include "macro.h"
#include "process-util.h"
#include "signal-util.h"
#include "util.h"

int asynchronous_job(void* (*func)(void *p), void *arg) {
        pthread_attr_t a;
        pthread_t t;
        int r;

        /* It kinda sucks that we have to resort to threads to
         * implement an asynchronous sync(), but well, such is
         * life.
         *
         * Note that issuing this command right before exiting a
         * process will cause the process to wait for the sync() to
         * complete. This function hence is nicely asynchronous really
         * only in long running processes. */

        r = pthread_attr_init(&a);
        if (r > 0)
                return -r;

        r = pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&a, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED);
        if (r > 0)
                goto finish;

        r = pthread_create(&t, &a, func, arg);

finish:
        pthread_attr_destroy(&a);
        return -r;
}

int asynchronous_sync(void) {
        pid_t pid;

        /* This forks off an invocation of fork() as a child process, in order to initiate synchronization to
         * disk. Note that we implement this as helper process rather than thread as we don't want the sync() to hang our
         * original process ever, and a thread would do that as the process can't exit with threads hanging in blocking
         * syscalls. */

        log_debug("Spawning new process for sync");

        pid = fork();
        if (pid < 0)
                return -errno;

        if (pid == 0) {
                /* Child process */

                (void) rename_process("(sd-sync)");

                (void) reset_all_signal_handlers();
                (void) reset_signal_mask();

                (void) close_all_fds(NULL, 0);

                (void) sync();
                _exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
        }

        /* We don' really care about the PID from here on. It will exit when it's done. */
        return 0;
}

static void *close_thread(void *p) {
        assert_se(close_nointr(PTR_TO_FD(p)) != -EBADF);
        return NULL;
}

int asynchronous_close(int fd) {
        int r;

        /* This is supposed to behave similar to safe_close(), but
         * actually invoke close() asynchronously, so that it will
         * never block. Ideally the kernel would have an API for this,
         * but it doesn't, so we work around it, and hide this as a
         * far away as we can. */

        if (fd >= 0) {
                PROTECT_ERRNO;

                r = asynchronous_job(close_thread, FD_TO_PTR(fd));
                if (r < 0)
                         assert_se(close_nointr(fd) != -EBADF);
        }

        return -1;
}