bug#63516: [PATCH Guile-Netlink 00/11] Add 'wait-for-link' and related code

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Thanks, I was able to test it simply by doing something like
(wait-for-link "veth0") and from another terminal, "ip l add veth0 type
veth peer veth1" (it doesn't have to be veth, it's the first one I
thought of that I didn't have to reach the manual for).

Pushed to guile-netlink's master :)

Le Tue, 23 May 2023 14:39:40 +0200,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :

> Hi Julien,
> 
> As a followup to <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63516>, here is code
> that lets us wait for a link to show up “the right way”—i.e., without
> polling. It works over SOCK_NONBLOCK sockets, for use in Fibers
> programs.
> 
> I tested it in a VM created with ‘guix system vm’.  If the “ens3”
> device is already there, (wait-for-link "ens3") returns immediately.
> Then I ran “rmmod e1000” to make the device disappear, and made
> another (wait-for-link "ens3") call: that call returns once I’ve run
> “modprobe e1000” in another terminal.  Wonderful.  :-)
> 
> Now, it would be good to have a test suite that can run without
> complicated setups.  We should check the strategy used by libnl,
> systemd, and the likes.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Ludo’.
> 
> Ludovic Courtès (11):
>   connection: Remove unused procedure.
>   connection: Use Guile's 'socket' procedure to open a socket.
>   connection: Throw upon errors in FFI bindings.
>   connection: Add support for suspendable sockets.
>   connection: Allow users to pass extra SOCK_ flags to 'socket'.
>   link: Extract 'new-link-message->link'.
>   addr: Extract 'new-address-message->address'.
>   connection: Add 'add-socket-membership'.
>   error: Add 'sub-type' field to '&netlink-decoder-error' and use it.
>   doc: Add indexes.
>   link: Add 'wait-for-link'.
> 
>  doc/guile-netlink.texi |  51 +++++++++++++++--
>  ip/addr.scm            |  46 +++++++--------
>  ip/link.scm            | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  ip/route.scm           |   6 +-
>  netlink/connection.scm | 126
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- netlink/constant.scm   |
> 40 +++++++++++++ netlink/data.scm       |  13 +++--
>  netlink/error.scm      |   4 +-
>  8 files changed, 303 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: beceb4cfea4739954e558411f46e07425891c774