Worker and Manager implementation of the "may-I-kee-running" protocol.
While running tasks, the Worker will ask the Manager periodically
whether it's still allowed to keep running that task. This allows the
Manager to abort commands on Workers when:
- the Worker should go to another state (typically 'asleep' or
'shutdown'),
- the task changed status from 'active' to something non-runnable
(typically 'canceled' when the job as a whole is canceled).
- the task has been assigned to a different Worker. This can happen when
a Worker loses its connection to its Manager, resulting in a task
timeout (not yet implemented) after which the task can be assigned to
another Worker. If then the connectivity is restored, the first Worker
should abort (last-assigned Worker wins).
The add-on code was copy-pasted from other addons and used the GPL v2
license, whereas by accident the LICENSE text file had the GNU "Affero" GPL
license v3 (instead of regular GPL v3).
This is now all streamlined, and all code is licensed as "GPL v3 or later".
Furthermore, the code comments just show a SPDX License Identifier
instead of an entire license block.
