A request which could not be returned to the client, as it was timed out or access to ansXXXXX failed: Should it be logged in slog.txt / sbook.txt and kept, or should it be freed?

Chosen: It is kept and logged.

(Selfnote) If it should be freed: Go to worker() in workers.c and check answer_client(), if it fails call free_reserved_seats(request) instead of logging the request.

Run as ./confirm after the server closes. It will compare only the seats successfully reserved.

The reserved seats should be the same. That is: when slog.txt is filtered and sorted, its contents should match those of sbook.txt

The reserved seats should be the same. Same deal: when clog.txt is filtered and sorted, and cbook.txt is also sorted, their contents should match exactly.

sbook.txt is naturally ordered, so the ordered version of cbook.txt should match sbook.txt exactly.

A quick tool to launch N clients from bash.

Syntax:

./multiclient [valgrind] n_clients timeout number total seats

n_clients --> number of clients to launch. timeout --> each client's timeout. number --> each client may request a number of seats in the range 1..number. total --> each client may request a number of seats in the range (2*number)/3..total. seats --> each client may choose seat numbers in the range 0..seats.