+/* Strings used to report results from the handler process. The
+ * TIDS_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN must be longer than the longest message, including
+ * null termination (i.e., strlen() + 1) */
+#define TIDS_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN (10)
+#define TIDS_SUCCESS_MESSAGE "OK"
+#define TIDS_ERROR_MESSAGE "ERR"
+
+/**
+ * Process to handle an incoming TIDS request
+ *
+ * This should be run in the child process after a fork(). Handles
+ * the request, writes the result to result_fd, and terminates via exit().
+ * Never returns to the caller.
+ *
+ * @param tids TID server instance
+ * @param conn_fd file descriptor for the incoming connection
+ * @param result_fd writable file descriptor for the result, or 0 to disable reporting
+ */
+static void tids_handle_proc(TIDS_INSTANCE *tids, int conn_fd, int result_fd)
+{
+ const char *response_message = NULL;
+
+ switch(tr_gss_handle_connection(conn_fd,
+ "trustidentity", tids->hostname, /* acceptor name */
+ tids->auth_handler, tids->cookie, /* auth callback and cookie */
+ tids_req_cb, tids /* req callback and cookie */
+ )) {
+ case TR_GSS_SUCCESS:
+ response_message = TIDS_SUCCESS_MESSAGE;
+ break;
+
+ case TR_GSS_ERROR:
+ default:
+ response_message = TIDS_ERROR_MESSAGE;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (0 != result_fd) {
+ /* write strlen + 1 to include the null termination */
+ if (write(result_fd, response_message, strlen(response_message) + 1) < 0)
+ tr_err("tids_accept: child process unable to write to pipe");
+ }
+
+ close(result_fd);
+ close(conn_fd);
+
+ /* This ought to be an exit(0), but log4shib does not play well with our (mis)use of threads and
+ * fork() in the main process. Until we sort that out, we abort() to force termination of this
+ * process. */
+ abort(); /* exit hard */
+}
+