GitHub - codyps/ocelot-tracker: a fast bittorrent tracker

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:: About

The ocelot tracker has a long and storied [past](http://torrentfreak.com/what-cd-debuts-lightweight-tracker-for-its-5-million-peers-101014/).

A friend of mine asked me to take a look at it a while back, and I ended
up making some modifications related to setuid() and IPv6. I posted a patch
to the what.cd developer forums, but received no helpful responses. 

I've kept these changes private for a long time. I'm releasing them now
because it seems like the public-facing what.cd forums have shut down. Every
page seems to display only an "Unexpected error" message (as of 07/24/2012,
but this has been the case for months).

My hope is that people who want to work on ocelot will have an easier time
on github.

:: Todo

- Make worker::work and children threadsafe.
- In connection_middleman::handle_read, use multiple threads to compute responses.
- Investiage if compression would be useful.
- Replace std::map with something more efficient. (According to profiling data, the only function busier than worker::work is std::_Rb_tree::_M_lower_bound, which is used by std::map.)

:: Notes

- Only one announce is possible at a time because db->torrent_list_mutex is locked.

:: License

Ocelot does not ship with a license file. I don't know what the original
developers' wishes were, but the standard disclaimer no doubt applies;

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH
REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT,
INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM
LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR
OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.