initial implementation of 'osysmon' main program + CTRL client
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+/* Simple Osmocom System Monitor (osysmon): Name-Value tree */
+
+/* (C) 2018 by Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
+ * All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+ *
+ *  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 2 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, write to the Free Software
+ *  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
+ *  MA  02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+
+#include <talloc.h>
+#include <osmocom/core/utils.h>
+
+#include "value_node.h"
+
+struct value_node *value_node_add(void *ctx, struct value_node *parent,
+				  const char *name, const char *value)
+{
+	struct value_node *vn = talloc_zero(parent, struct value_node);
+	OSMO_ASSERT(vn);
+	/* we assume the name is static/const and owned by caller */
+	vn->name = name;
+	if (value)
+		vn->value = talloc_strdup(vn, value);
+	INIT_LLIST_HEAD(&vn->children);
+	if (parent)
+		llist_add_tail(&vn->list, &parent->children);
+	else
+		INIT_LLIST_HEAD(&vn->list);
+	return vn;
+}
+
+void value_node_del(struct value_node *node)
+{
+	/* remove ourselves from the parent */
+	llist_del(&node->list);
+
+#if 0	/* not actually needed, talloc should do this */
+	struct value_node *ch, *ch2;
+	llist_for_each_entry_safe(ch, ch2, &node->children, list)
+		value_node_del(ch);
+	/* "value" is a talloc child, and "name" is not owned by us */
+#endif
+	/* let talloc do its magic to delete all child nodes */
+	talloc_free(node);
+}