[tor-bugs] #3049 [Tor Client]: Allow a Tor process to be ‘owned’ by a controller process

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#3049: Allow a Tor process to be ‘owned’ by a controller process
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 Reporter:  rransom      |          Owner:  rransom           
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  needs_review      
 Priority:  major        |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.2.x-final
Component:  Tor Client   |        Version:                    
 Keywords:               |         Parent:                    
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by nickm):

 Quick review of stuff through the current head ( f0c70fb52f44 ) :

  * Is there a system where we don't expect owning_controller_process_spec
 to be an integer of some type?
  * Instead of having the functions take an event_base, you can just have
 them call tor_libevent_get_base.
  * For the timer, I'd suggest looking at periodic_timer_new; it's a little
 more accurate, and IMO makes our intent clearer.
  * In monitor_owning_controller_process, if we're going to make a failure
 to allocate owning_controller_process_monitor be a recoverable error, we
 should make sure that it frees and clears owning_controller_process_spec
 so that the two are consistent again.  On the other hand, if we ''don't''
 plan to make it a recoverable error, then the log message should be
 log_err.

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