*/

      execvp(progname, argv);

      return 1; /* this line should never be reached because we exec -- unless if the exec returns something bad. Then we'd have to tell execio over the pipe about that somehow... */

      /* in fact, maybe we should abort() here because if we returned, a monster of a distren client would exist! */

    }

}

/*

  returns 1 if child has exited, 

  returns 0 if child is still alive

 */

int _execio_checkpid(struct execio *eio)

{

  int childstatus;

  waitpid(eio->child, &childstatus, WNOHANG);

  /* perror()? */

  return WIFEXITED(childstatus);

}

int execio_read(struct execio *eio, void *buf, size_t len, size_t *bytesread)

{

  /*

    TODO: detect NULL eio? 

    TODO: errno?

    update status of eio for execio_status/to be able to cleanup subproc??

    whenever read() returns 0, it means EOF

   */

  (*bytesread) = read(eio->pipe_read, buf, len);

  if(!*bytesread)

    {

      /* should also be able to figure out if is bad fd and should set EXECIO_STATE_ERROR instead of _EOF */

      eio->state = EXECIO_STATE_EOF;

      return 1;

    }

  return 0;

}

int execio_write(struct execio *eio, void *buf, size_t len, size_t *bytesread)

{

  errno = 0;

  (*bytesread) = write(eio->pipe_write, buf, len);

  if(!*bytesread)

    {

      switch(errno)

	{

	case EPIPE:

	  /* 

	     the program closed the pipe (died)

	  */

	fprintf(stderr, "execio_write: the child program closed its stdin pipe\n");

	eio->state = EXECIO_STATE_EOF;

	break;

	default:

	  fprintf(stderr, "execio_write: unhandled error writing to an fd: \n");

	  perror("write");

	  eio->state = EXECIO_STATE_ERROR;

	  break;

	}

      return 1;

    }

  return 0;

}

enum execio_state execio_state(struct execio *eio)

{

  return eio->state;

}

int execio_close(struct execio *eio)

{

  int childstatus;

  close(eio->pipe_read);

  close(eio->pipe_write);

  /* maybe we should just kill rather than term the child */

  kill(eio->child, SIGTERM);

  /* 

     the waitpid(2) seems to indicate that only when the child is terminated will this wait return. 

     This are of code will probably need improving - the ability to seng SIGKILL after a timeout? So we'll output a debug line before running waitpid

  */

  fprintf(stderr, "execio_close: running waitpid\n");

  waitpid(eio->child, &childstatus, 0);

  return 0;

}