SchOS/cmd/schinitd/main.c
Nexoniarz ff7afa746e tty: arrow keys, backspace, and four terminals nobody was home on
Three things, all in the first minute of using a shell.

**Arrow keys corrupted the two keystrokes after them.** They arrive as single
keycodes -- KEY_UP is 0xE2 -- and were pushed into the input buffer exactly
like that. No terminal works that way, and 0xE2 is the worst possible byte to
have chosen: it is a UTF-8 lead byte for a three-byte character, so a reader
decoding UTF-8 swallowed the next two keys waiting for continuations that never
arrived. consoleintr() sends the DEC/xterm sequences now -- ESC[A, ESC[D,
ESC[5~ and the rest -- which every terminfo entry and every line editor already
knows. Not echoed: in canonical mode echoing them would move the cursor for
real, which was the other half of what "weird glitches" looked like.

**Then the end of the line vanished as you typed into it**, with the buffer
perfectly correct. One line in vt_putc(): backspace erased the cell it moved
onto. That is a line-discipline erase, not the BS control character -- a
program rubbing a character out sends `\b \b`, and the separation matters
because programs also use plain `\b` to go back. zsh does, on every mid-line
edit:

    echo alpha  \b\b  zha  \b\b

back two, rewrite the tail, back two again to park the cursor. Against a
destructive backspace that last pair deleted the `ha` it had just drawn.

`\b` moves and nothing else now, 0x7f is ignored as on a real terminal, and
consputc() spells its own erase out as `\b \b` as it already did for serial.
ESC[@, ESC[P and ESC[X went in alongside, because TERM=linux declares them.

**VT3 to VT6 were blank** because nothing ran on them. NVT is 6 and the kernel
made all six; only two had a shell, so Alt+F3 switched to a terminal that was
working perfectly and had nobody to talk to. Four more manifests.

Six shells starting at once is enough concurrency to expose an intermittent
fault in one of them -- one boot in five, a wild jump into .data that runs
until it writes to 0, which nothing catches because SchOS never sets EFER.NXE.
Three boots with two shells, none. Recorded rather than fixed: it is not caused
by the manifests, only made likelier by them.

Also: QEMU_NET forwards host 8080/8081/8000 to guest 80/8080/8000, so the httpd
is reachable from the machine running QEMU instead of being sealed behind NAT.
Verified end to end. And the greeting prints once again -- a replaced
supervisor was announcing a boot that had already happened.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VQ7Qx8E1q1M1bbCq8QLHS2
2026-09-14 22:43:54 +02:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
//
// schinitd -- the supervisor. PID 2, and restartable.
//
// Everything that used to make PID 1 complicated lives here: reading
// /etc/schinit, parsing manifests, deciding what runs, respawn policy and
// throttling. docs/architecture/init.md calls this "where the bugs will be", which is
// exactly why it is a separate program -- a bug here is a restart, not a panic.
//
// The one rule that makes the split worth having:
//
// **This program never forks a job.** It decides, and asks PID 1 to act. So
// every job on the machine is a child of PID 1 at all times, and this
// process dying orphans nothing, reparents nothing and restarts nothing. It
// comes back, reads /proc/schinit, and finds the world exactly as it left it.
//
// A supervisor that forked its own children could not be restarted without
// either losing them to reparenting or racing the new copy to adopt them --
// the split-brain failure docs/architecture/init.md rejects the two-init scheme for.
#include "types.h"
#include "user.h"
#include "fcntl.h"
#include "posix.h"
#include "socket.h"
#include "schinit.h"
#define JOBDIR "/etc/schinit"
// Sizes. These mirror the protocol's, deliberately: a job that parses here but
// will not fit in a spawn message is a job that fails at the last moment, and
// keeping the two the same makes that impossible rather than unlikely.
#define MAXJOBS 32
#define MAXARGS SCHINIT_MAXARGS
#define MAXENVV SCHINIT_MAXENVV
#define MAXLABEL SCHINIT_MAXLABEL
#define MAXPATH SCHINIT_MAXPATH
#define MAXLINE 256
static int
slen(const char *s)
{
int n = 0;
while (s[n]) n++;
return n;
}
static void
scopy(char *dst, const char *src, int cap)
{
int i = 0;
while (src[i] && i < cap - 1) { dst[i] = src[i]; i++; }
dst[i] = '\0';
}
static int
seq(const char *a, const char *b)
{
while (*a && *a == *b) { a++; b++; }
return *a == *b;
}
// Case-insensitive, so a manifest may say KeepAlive, keepalive or KEEPALIVE.
// Keys are for humans and this is not a language.
static int
sieq(const char *a, const char *b)
{
for (;;) {
char ca = *a, cb = *b;
if (ca >= 'A' && ca <= 'Z') ca += 32;
if (cb >= 'A' && cb <= 'Z') cb += 32;
if (ca != cb) return 0;
if (!ca) return 1;
a++; b++;
}
}
static int
ends_with(const char *s, const char *suffix)
{
int ls = slen(s), lf = slen(suffix);
if (lf > ls) return 0;
return seq(s + ls - lf, suffix);
}
static void
out(const char *s)
{
write(1, (void *)s, slen(s));
}
// How the machine was booted, read once.
//
// The routine progress lines below -- one per job started, plus the summary --
// are the userspace half of the same problem the kernel has: worth reading on
// a boot you are watching, and noise on the several thousand after it. They
// are not deleted, they are held back, and `make qemu` with F8 or any verbose
// boot brings all of them back.
//
// Failures are never held back. A job that could not start, a channel that
// closed, a pid 1 that stopped answering: those print either way, because a
// silent supervisor is worse than a chatty one.
static int verbose_boot;
static void
read_bootmode(void)
{
char b[16];
int fd = open("/proc/bootmode", O_RDONLY);
int n;
if (fd < 0)
return; // no procfs: assume quiet
n = read(fd, b, sizeof(b) - 1);
close(fd);
if (n > 0) {
b[n] = 0;
verbose_boot = (b[0] == 'v');
}
}
// Progress, as opposed to news.
static void
vout(const char *s)
{
if (verbose_boot)
write(1, (void *)s, slen(s));
}
static void
outn(int v)
{
char buf[12];
int i = 11;
int neg = v < 0;
if (neg) v = -v;
buf[i--] = '\0';
if (v == 0) buf[i--] = '0';
while (v > 0) { buf[i--] = (char)('0' + v % 10); v /= 10; }
if (neg) buf[i--] = '-';
out(&buf[i + 1]);
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Jobs
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
struct job {
char label[MAXLABEL];
char program[MAXPATH];
char *argv[MAXARGS + 1];
char argstore[MAXLINE];
// Environment, one "KEY=VALUE" per Environment line, repeatable. Stored
// as pointers into envstore so the job owns its own strings -- the parse
// buffer is gone by the time anything execs.
char *envp[MAXENVV + 1];
char envstore[MAXLINE * 2];
int envlen;
int envn;
char stdin_path[MAXPATH];
char stdout_path[MAXPATH];
char stderr_path[MAXPATH];
int run_at_load;
int keep_alive;
int disabled;
int throttle; // seconds between respawns
int own_tty; // claim the console as controlling terminal
// A socket the job wants schinit to hold. Parsed now, honoured in
// milestone 2 -- recorded here so the manifest format does not have to
// change when it is.
char sock_path[MAXPATH];
int pid; // 0 when not running
unsigned int cookie; // PID 1's handle for this job while it runs
int last_start; // uptime() ticks, for throttling
int starts;
};
static struct job jobs[MAXJOBS];
static int njobs;
static void
job_defaults(struct job *j)
{
j->label[0] = j->program[0] = '\0';
j->stdin_path[0] = j->stdout_path[0] = j->stderr_path[0] = '\0';
j->sock_path[0] = '\0';
j->argstore[0] = '\0';
j->argv[0] = 0;
j->run_at_load = 0;
j->keep_alive = 0;
j->disabled = 0;
j->throttle = 1;
j->own_tty = 0;
j->pid = 0;
j->last_start = 0;
j->starts = 0;
}
static int
truthy(const char *v)
{
return sieq(v, "yes") || sieq(v, "true") || sieq(v, "1") || sieq(v, "on");
}
static int
parse_int(const char *s)
{
int v = 0;
while (*s >= '0' && *s <= '9') { v = v * 10 + (*s - '0'); s++; }
return v;
}
// Split Args into argv, in place within the job's own storage. argv[0] is the
// program's name as it should see it, which is conventionally the basename and
// not the full path -- so a manifest says `Args = sh` for `/bin/sh`.
static void
split_args(struct job *j, const char *value)
{
scopy(j->argstore, value, MAXLINE);
int n = 0;
char *p = j->argstore;
while (*p && n < MAXARGS) {
while (*p == ' ' || *p == '\t') p++;
if (!*p) break;
j->argv[n++] = p;
while (*p && *p != ' ' && *p != '\t') p++;
if (*p) *p++ = '\0';
}
j->argv[n] = 0;
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Manifest parsing
//
// Sectioned key = value. Comments start with #. A [Socket name] section marks
// everything after it as belonging to that socket, which is why Path is read
// into sock_path rather than treated as a job key.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// One "KEY=VALUE" onto the job's environment. Repeatable, so a manifest reads
//
// Environment = TERM=linux
// Environment = PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
//
// rather than inventing a separator that a value might contain.
static void
add_env(struct job *j, const char *kv)
{
if (j->envn >= MAXENVV)
return;
int n = slen(kv);
if (j->envlen + n + 1 > (int)sizeof(j->envstore))
return;
char *dst = j->envstore + j->envlen;
scopy(dst, kv, n + 1);
j->envp[j->envn++] = dst;
j->envp[j->envn] = 0;
j->envlen += n + 1;
}
static char *
trim(char *s)
{
while (*s == ' ' || *s == '\t') s++;
int n = slen(s);
while (n > 0 && (s[n-1] == ' ' || s[n-1] == '\t' ||
s[n-1] == '\r' || s[n-1] == '\n'))
s[--n] = '\0';
return s;
}
static int
load_job(const char *path)
{
if (njobs >= MAXJOBS) {
out("schinit: too many jobs, ignoring "); out(path); out("\n");
return -1;
}
int fd = open((char *)path, O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) return -1;
// Whole file into one static buffer. A job manifest that does not fit in
// 4 KB is a manifest doing something it should not.
static char buf[4096];
int n = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1);
close(fd);
if (n <= 0) return -1;
buf[n] = '\0';
struct job *j = &jobs[njobs];
job_defaults(j);
int in_socket = 0;
char *p = buf;
while (*p) {
char *line = p;
while (*p && *p != '\n') p++;
if (*p) *p++ = '\0';
// Strip comments before trimming, so trailing comments work too.
for (char *c = line; *c; c++)
if (*c == '#') { *c = '\0'; break; }
line = trim(line);
if (!*line) continue;
if (line[0] == '[') {
// [Socket name] -- the only section kind for now. Anything else is
// ignored rather than fatal: an unknown section from a newer
// schinit should not stop this one booting the machine.
in_socket = (line[1] == 'S' || line[1] == 's');
continue;
}
char *eq = line;
while (*eq && *eq != '=') eq++;
if (!*eq) continue; // not key = value; skip
*eq = '\0';
char *key = trim(line);
char *val = trim(eq + 1);
if (in_socket) {
if (sieq(key, "Path")) scopy(j->sock_path, val, MAXPATH);
continue;
}
if (sieq(key, "Label")) scopy(j->label, val, MAXLABEL);
else if (sieq(key, "Program")) scopy(j->program, val, MAXPATH);
else if (sieq(key, "Args")) split_args(j, val);
else if (sieq(key, "RunAtLoad")) j->run_at_load = truthy(val);
else if (sieq(key, "KeepAlive")) j->keep_alive = truthy(val);
else if (sieq(key, "Disabled")) j->disabled = truthy(val);
else if (sieq(key, "ThrottleInterval")) j->throttle = parse_int(val);
else if (sieq(key, "ControllingTerminal")) j->own_tty = truthy(val);
else if (sieq(key, "Environment")) add_env(j, val);
else if (sieq(key, "StandardIn")) scopy(j->stdin_path, val, MAXPATH);
else if (sieq(key, "StandardOut")) scopy(j->stdout_path, val, MAXPATH);
else if (sieq(key, "StandardError")) scopy(j->stderr_path, val, MAXPATH);
// Unknown keys are ignored on purpose, same reasoning as sections.
}
if (!j->program[0]) {
out("schinit: "); out(path); out(": no Program, ignoring\n");
return -1;
}
if (!j->label[0])
scopy(j->label, j->program, MAXLABEL);
if (!j->argv[0]) {
// No Args given: pass the program path as argv[0], which is what a
// program expects when nothing better is said.
scopy(j->argstore, j->program, MAXLINE);
j->argv[0] = j->argstore;
j->argv[1] = 0;
}
if (j->throttle <= 0)
j->throttle = 1;
njobs++;
return 0;
}
// Read every *.job in JOBDIR. getdents64 rather than a hardcoded list, so
// dropping a file in the directory is all it takes to add a job.
static void
load_jobs(void)
{
int fd = open(JOBDIR, O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
out("schinit: no " JOBDIR "\n");
return;
}
static char dbuf[4096];
for (;;) {
int n = getdents64(fd, dbuf, sizeof(dbuf));
if (n <= 0) break;
int off = 0;
while (off < n) {
struct dirent64 *d = (struct dirent64 *)(dbuf + off);
// Step by d_reclen: records are packed and variable length.
if (d->d_reclen == 0) break;
off += d->d_reclen;
if (d->d_name[0] == '.') continue;
if (!ends_with(d->d_name, ".job")) continue;
char path[MAXPATH];
scopy(path, JOBDIR "/", MAXPATH);
int at = slen(path);
scopy(path + at, d->d_name, MAXPATH - at);
load_job(path);
}
}
close(fd);
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Talking to PID 1
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
static int sock = SCHINIT_SOCK_FD;
// Flatten a job into a spawn request. Strings are copied into one buffer and
// referred to by offset, because pointers do not survive the trip.
static int
pack(struct schinit_spawn *s, struct job *j, unsigned int cookie)
{
int used = 0;
for (unsigned int z = 0; z < sizeof(*s); z++) ((char *)s)[z] = 0;
s->op = SCHINIT_SPAWN;
s->cookie = cookie;
scopy(s->label, j->label, SCHINIT_MAXLABEL);
scopy(s->program, j->program, SCHINIT_MAXPATH);
scopy(s->stdin_path, j->stdin_path, SCHINIT_MAXPATH);
scopy(s->stdout_path, j->stdout_path, SCHINIT_MAXPATH);
scopy(s->stderr_path, j->stderr_path, SCHINIT_MAXPATH);
s->own_tty = j->own_tty;
for (int i = 0; i < MAXARGS && j->argv[i]; i++) {
int n = slen(j->argv[i]) + 1;
if (used + n > SCHINIT_STRBUF)
return -1; // too much text; refuse rather than trim
s->args[s->nargs++] = (unsigned short)used;
scopy(&s->strbuf[used], j->argv[i], n);
used += n;
}
for (int i = 0; i < j->envn; i++) {
int n = slen(j->envp[i]) + 1;
if (used + n > SCHINIT_STRBUF)
return -1;
s->envs[s->nenvs++] = (unsigned short)used;
scopy(&s->strbuf[used], j->envp[i], n);
used += n;
}
return 0;
}
// Ask PID 1 to start a job. The reply may be preceded by exit notifications
// for other jobs, so this reads until it sees the answer to *this* cookie and
// handles anything else on the way past.
static void note_exit(unsigned int cookie, int pid, int status);
static unsigned int next_cookie = 1;
static int
ask_spawn(struct job *j)
{
struct schinit_spawn s;
unsigned int cookie = next_cookie++;
if (pack(&s, j, cookie) < 0) {
out("schinitd: "); out(j->label); out(": job too large to send\n");
return -1;
}
if (write(sock, &s, sizeof(s)) != sizeof(s))
return -1;
for (;;) {
struct schinit_reply r;
if (read(sock, &r, sizeof(r)) != sizeof(r))
return -1; // PID 1 is gone, which cannot happen
if (r.op == SCHINIT_SPAWNED && r.cookie == cookie) {
if (r.pid > 0) {
j->pid = r.pid;
j->cookie = cookie;
j->last_start = uptime();
j->starts++;
}
return r.pid;
}
if (r.op == SCHINIT_EXITED)
note_exit(r.cookie, r.pid, r.status);
}
}
static struct job *
job_by_cookie(unsigned int cookie)
{
for (int i = 0; i < njobs; i++)
if (jobs[i].cookie == cookie && jobs[i].pid)
return &jobs[i];
return 0;
}
static void
note_exit(unsigned int cookie, int pid, int status)
{
struct job *j = job_by_cookie(cookie);
if (!j)
return; // not ours, or already noticed
j->pid = 0;
j->cookie = 0;
if (!j->keep_alive)
return;
// A job that says it cannot run on this machine is believed. The status is
// wait(2)-encoded: the low seven bits are the signal that killed it, so a
// job that was killed or faulted never matches this and is restarted the
// way KeepAlive promises. See SCHINIT_EXIT_NORESTART.
if ((status & 0x7f) == 0 && ((status >> 8) & 0xff) == SCHINIT_EXIT_NORESTART) {
// Not a failure: the job looked, found the machine did not have what
// it drives, and said so properly. Worth reading once and not every
// boot on a machine that will never have one.
vout("schinitd: "); vout(j->label);
vout(" has nothing to do on this machine; not restarting\n");
return;
}
// Throttle. A job that exits immediately and forever would otherwise spin
// the machine; launchd's ThrottleInterval exists for exactly this.
int ticks = j->throttle * 100;
int since = uptime() - j->last_start;
if (since < ticks)
sleep(ticks - since);
out("schinitd: restarting "); out(j->label); out("\n");
ask_spawn(j);
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Adopting what is already running
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Read /proc/schinit and claim the jobs PID 1 is already holding.
//
// This is the half of "State outside the process" that makes the other half worth
// anything. PID 1 publishes the table; without this, a restarted supervisor
// reads its manifests, sees nothing running *as far as it knows*, and starts
// everything a second time. The console shell then exists twice, both reading
// the same terminal, and every keystroke goes to whichever woke first -- the
// split-brain failure the plan rejects the two-init scheme for, arrived at by
// a different route.
//
// The state is outside the process precisely so that coming back is a *read*
// rather than a guess.
static unsigned int
adopt(void)
{
char buf[2048];
int fd = open("/proc/schinit", O_RDONLY);
unsigned int highest = 0;
if (fd < 0)
return 0;
int n = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1);
close(fd);
if (n <= 0)
return 0;
buf[n] = 0;
// Lines are "cookie pid started label". The two header lines do not match
// that shape and fall out of the parse on their own.
char *p = buf;
while (*p) {
char *line = p;
while (*p && *p != '\n') p++;
if (*p == '\n') *p++ = 0;
unsigned int cookie = 0;
int pid = 0, started = 0, f = 0;
char *q = line;
// cookie
if (*q < '0' || *q > '9') continue;
while (*q >= '0' && *q <= '9') { cookie = cookie * 10 + (*q++ - '0'); f++; }
while (*q == ' ') q++;
while (*q >= '0' && *q <= '9') { pid = pid * 10 + (*q++ - '0'); }
while (*q == ' ') q++;
while (*q >= '0' && *q <= '9') { started = started * 10 + (*q++ - '0'); }
while (*q == ' ') q++;
if (!f || !pid || !*q) continue;
for (int i = 0; i < njobs; i++) {
if (!seq(jobs[i].label, q))
continue;
jobs[i].pid = pid;
jobs[i].cookie = cookie;
jobs[i].last_start = started;
out("schinitd: adopting "); out(jobs[i].label); out("\n");
break;
}
if (cookie > highest)
highest = cookie;
}
return highest;
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
int
main(void)
{
struct schinit_hello h;
read_bootmode();
// Version handshake before anything else. A mismatch is a refusal rather
// than a best-effort interpretation -- see the header for why.
h.op = SCHINIT_HELLO;
h.proto = SCHINIT_PROTO;
h.generation = 0;
h.reserved = 0;
if (write(sock, &h, sizeof(h)) != sizeof(h)) {
out("schinitd: no channel to pid 1\n");
exit();
}
if (read(sock, &h, sizeof(h)) != sizeof(h) || h.op != SCHINIT_WELCOME) {
out("schinitd: pid 1 did not answer\n");
exit();
}
if (h.proto != SCHINIT_PROTO) {
out("schinitd: protocol mismatch with pid 1\n");
exit();
}
load_jobs();
vout("schinitd: "); if (verbose_boot) outn(njobs);
vout(" job(s) loaded, generation ");
if (verbose_boot) { outn((int)h.generation); out("\n"); }
// Anything PID 1 is already holding is ours again, not something to start.
unsigned int highest = adopt();
next_cookie = highest + 1;
for (int i = 0; i < njobs; i++) {
struct job *j = &jobs[i];
if (j->disabled || !j->run_at_load)
continue;
if (j->pid)
continue; // adopted; it never stopped running
vout("schinitd: starting "); vout(j->label); vout("\n");
ask_spawn(j);
}
vout("schinitd: ready\n");
// The one line a working boot prints, and the last one.
//
// Here rather than in the kernel because "the machine is up" is not true
// until the jobs that make it usable have been started, and because
// anything printed before this point would come after it on screen. The
// kernel's whole boot is a kinfo() and is in the klog; this is the part a
// person is meant to read.
// Only the first supervisor of a boot says it. A replacement adopts
// running jobs rather than starting them, so greeting the user again would
// be announcing a boot that already happened -- and it printed twice for
// real, the day schinitd was replaced during startup.
if (!verbose_boot && h.generation <= 1)
out("\nWelcome to SchOS!"
" (F8 at boot for the full log, or dmesg once you are in)\n\n");
// From here on this program does two things: answer PID 1's heartbeat, and
// act on the exits it reports. There is no wait() in this program and
// there cannot be -- the children are not ours.
//
// The read is polled rather than blocking, so that a PID 1 which has
// stopped talking is noticed. A blocking read would sit there forever
// looking exactly like a quiet machine, which is the failure mode this
// whole heartbeat exists to make visible.
int last_ping = uptime();
for (;;) {
struct pollfd pf;
pf.fd = sock;
pf.events = POLLIN;
pf.revents = 0;
int pr = poll(&pf, 1, 1000);
// The channel is gone. This happens to the *old* supervisor when PID 1
// has replaced it: PID 1 closes its end, so poll reports a hangup and
// never reports readable again. Without this the replaced supervisor
// sits in the loop for ever, complaining that PID 1 has stopped
// pinging -- which it has, because it is no longer talking to us.
if (pr > 0 && (pf.revents & (POLLHUP | POLLERR | POLLNVAL))) {
out("schinitd: channel closed; this supervisor has been replaced\n");
exit();
}
if (pr > 0 && (pf.revents & POLLIN)) {
union schinit_msg m;
int n = read(sock, &m, sizeof(m));
if (n <= 0) {
// PID 1 closed the channel. It is the one process that cannot
// have gone away, so this means we are being replaced.
out("schinitd: channel closed\n");
exit();
}
if (m.op == SCHINIT_PING) {
struct schinit_hello p;
p.op = SCHINIT_PONG;
p.proto = SCHINIT_PROTO;
p.generation = 0;
p.reserved = 0;
write(sock, &p, sizeof(p));
last_ping = uptime();
} else if (m.op == SCHINIT_EXITED) {
note_exit(m.reply.cookie, m.reply.pid, m.reply.status);
}
}
// Silence from PID 1.
//
// There is nothing this program can do about it -- PID 1 cannot be
// killed and cannot be replaced from here -- so it says so, loudly,
// once. docs/architecture/init.md is explicit that this is the limit: a hang
// in PID 1 is only caught by noticing, and if both ends are wedged at
// once nothing catches it. There is no hardware watchdog.
//
// Saying so is still worth doing. The alternative is a machine that
// looks idle while its init is stuck, which is how this class of bug
// stays invisible for months.
static int complained;
if (!complained && uptime() - last_ping >= SCHINIT_DEADLINE_SECS * 100) {
out("schinitd: pid 1 has not pinged for "
"the deadline -- it may be wedged\n");
complained = 1;
}
}
}