From: Alan T. DeKok <aland@freeradius.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 17:12:42 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: notes on future async
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notes on future async
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diff --git a/src/modules/rlm_exec/rlm_exec.c b/src/modules/rlm_exec/rlm_exec.c
index a4f6cfea4d8..0288e4f233b 100644
--- a/src/modules/rlm_exec/rlm_exec.c
+++ b/src/modules/rlm_exec/rlm_exec.c
@@ -295,6 +295,18 @@ static rlm_rcode_t CC_HINT(nonnull) mod_exec_dispatch(void *instance, UNUSED voi
 		ctx = radius_list_ctx(request, inst->output_list);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 *	async changes:
+	 *
+	 *	- create rlm_exec_thread_t, with inst->el
+	 *	  - or for the short term, just use request->el
+	 *	- do our own xlat of inst->program
+	 *	- call radius_start_program()
+	 *	- call event loop to add callback for EVFILT_PROC, NOTE_EXIT | NOTE_EXITSTATUS, pid
+	 *	- call event loop to add callback for reading from the pipe
+	 *	- return YIELD
+	 */
+
 	/*
 	 *	This function does it's own xlat of the input program
 	 *	to execute.