Megatest

		      (begin
			(tasks:server-set-state! (db:delay-if-busy tdbdat) server-id "dbprep")
			(thread-sleep! 0.5) ;; give some margin for queries to complete before switching from file based access to server based access
			(set! *dbstruct-db*  (db:setup)) ;;  run-id))
			(set! server-going #t)
			(tasks:server-set-state! (db:delay-if-busy tdbdat) server-id "running")
			(server:write-dotserver *toppath* (conc iface ":" port))
			(delete-file* (conc *toppath* "/.starting-server")))
		      (begin ;; gotta exit nicely
                        (server:dotserver-starting-remove))
                      (begin ;; gotta exit nicely
			(tasks:server-set-state! (db:delay-if-busy tdbdat) server-id "collision")
			(http-transport:server-shutdown server-id port))))))

      ;; when things go wrong we don't want to be doing the various queries too often
      ;; so we strive to run this stuff only every four seconds or so.
      (let* ((sync-time (- (current-milliseconds) start-time))
	    (rem-time  (quotient (- 4000 sync-time) 1000)))

    (exit)))

;; all routes though here end in exit ...
;;
;; start_server? 
;;
(define (http-transport:launch run-id)
  (with-output-to-file
      (conc *toppath* "/.starting-server")
  (server:dotserver-starting)
    (lambda ()
      (print (current-process-id) " on " (get-host-name))))
  (let* ((tdbdat (tasks:open-db)))
    (set! *run-id*   run-id)
    (if (args:get-arg "-daemonize")
	(begin
	  (daemon:ize)
	  (if *alt-log-file* ;; we should re-connect to this port, I think daemon:ize disrupts it
	      (begin

		(thread-sleep! 2)
		(loop (tasks:server-lock-slot (db:delay-if-busy tdbdat) run-id 'http)
		      (- remtries 1)))
	      (begin
		;; since we didn't get the server lock we are going to clean up and bail out
		(debug:print-info 2 *default-log-port* "INFO: server pid=" (current-process-id) ", hostname=" (get-host-name) " not starting due to other candidates ahead in start queue")
		(tasks:server-delete-records-for-this-pid (db:delay-if-busy tdbdat) " http-transport:launch")
		(delete-file* (conc *toppath* "/.starting-server"))
                
                (server:dotserver-starting-remove)
		))
	  (let* ((th2 (make-thread (lambda ()
				     (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "Server run thread started")
				     (http-transport:run 
				      (if (args:get-arg "-server")
					  (args:get-arg "-server")
					  "-")