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Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>

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+/**
+ * mds — A micro-display server
+ * Copyright © 2014  Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
+ * 
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * 
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ * 
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+#ifndef MDS_MDS_BASE_H
+#define MDS_MDS_BASE_H
+
+
+/**
+ * Characteristics of the server
+ */
+typedef struct server_characteristics
+{
+  /**
+   * Setting this to zero will cause the server to drop privileges as a security precaution
+   */
+  int require_privileges;
+  
+} server_characteristics_t;
+
+
+/**
+ * This variable should declared by the actual server implementation.
+ * It must be configured before `main` is invoked.
+ * 
+ * This tells the server-base how to behave.
+ */
+extern server_characteristics_t server_characteristics;
+
+
+/**
+ * Number of elements in `argv`
+ */
+extern int argc;
+
+/**
+ * Command line arguments
+ */
+extern char** argv;
+
+/**
+ * Whether the server has been respawn
+ * rather than this being the initial spawn.
+ * This will be at least as true as `is_reexec`.
+ */
+extern int is_respawn;
+
+/**
+ * Whether the server is continuing
+ * from a self-reexecution
+ */
+extern int is_reexec;
+
+
+/**
+ * The file descriptor of the socket
+ * that is connected to the server
+ */
+extern int socket_fd;
+
+
+
+#endif
+