Megatest

(define (server:get-server-id)
  (if *server-id* *server-id*
      (let ((sig (server:mk-signature))) ;; clients re-use the server:mk-signature logic
        (set! *server-id* sig)
        *server-id*)))

;; ;; When using zmq this would send the message back (two step process)
;; ;; with spiffy or rpc this simply returns the return data to be returned
;; ;; 
;; (define (server:reply return-addr query-sig success/fail result)
;;   (debug:print-info 11 *default-log-port* "server:reply return-addr=" return-addr ", result=" result)
;;   ;; (send-message pubsock target send-more: #t)
;;   ;; (send-message pubsock 
;;   (case (server:get-transport)
;;     ((rpc)  (db:obj->string (vector success/fail query-sig result)))
;;     ((http) (db:obj->string (vector success/fail query-sig result)))
;;     ((fs)   result)
;;     (else 
;;      (debug:print-error 0 *default-log-port* "unrecognised transport type: " *transport-type*)
;;      result)))

;; Given an area path,  start a server process    ### NOTE ### > file 2>&1 
;; if the target-host is set 
;; try running on that host
;;   incidental: rotate logs in logs/ dir.
;;
(define  (server:run areapath) ;; areapath is *toppath* for a given testsuite area

  ;; find oldest alive
  ;;   1. sort by age ascending and ping until good
  ;; find alive rand from youngest
  ;;   1. sort by age descending
  ;;   2. take five
  ;;   3. check alive, discard if not and repeat
  ;; first we clean up old server files
  (assert (eq? (rmt:transport-mode) 'http) "FATAL: server:run called with rmt:transport-mode="(rmt:transport-mode))
  (server:clean-up-old areapath)
  (let* ((since-last (- (current-seconds) server-last-start))
        (server-start-delay 10))     
    (if ( < (- (current-seconds) server-last-start) 10 )
      (begin
        (debug:print 2 *default-log-port* "server:choose-server: seconds since last server start: " (- (current-seconds) server-last-start))
        (debug:print 2 *default-log-port* "server:choose-server: last server start less than " server-start-delay " seconds ago. Sleeping " server-start-delay " seconds")

		 (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "WARNING: failed to delete old server info file "sfile)
		 (delete-file sfile))))))
     sfiles)))

;; would like to eventually get rid of this
;;
(define (common:on-homehost?)
  (if (eq? (rmt:transport-mode) 'http)
      (server:choose-server *toppath* 'home?)
      #t)) ;; there is no homehost for tcp and nfs is always on home so #t should work

;; kind start up of server, wait before allowing another server for a given
;; area to be launched
;;
(define (server:kind-run areapath)
  ;; look for $MT_RUN_AREA_HOME/logs/server-start-last
  ;; and wait for it to be at least <server idletime> seconds old

(define (server:kill servr)
  (handle-exceptions
    exn
    (begin 
      (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port*  "Unable to get host and/or port from " servr ", exn=" exn)     
    #f)
  (match-let (((hostname port start-time server-id pid)
	       servr))
    (tasks:kill-server hostname pid))))

;; called in megatest.scm, host-port is string hostname:port
;;
;; NOTE: This is NOT called directly from clients as not all transports support a client running
;;       in the same process as the server.
;;
(define (server:ping host:port server-id #!key (do-exit #f))
  (let* ((host-port (cond
		     ((string? host:port)
		      (let ((slst (string-split   host:port ":")))
			(if (eq? (length slst) 2)
			    (list (car slst)(string->number (cadr slst)))
			    #f)))
		     (else
		      #f))))
    (cond
     ((and (list? host-port)
	   (eq? (length host-port) 2))
      (let* ((myrunremote (make-and-init-remote *toppath*))
	     (iface       (car host-port))
	     (port        (cadr host-port))
	     (server-dat  (client:connect iface port server-id myrunremote))
	     (login-res   (rmt:login-no-auto-client-setup myrunremote)))
	(http-transport:close-connections myrunremote)
	(if (and (list? login-res)
		 (car login-res))