3 * $Id: lbuf.h,v 1.3 1999/12/10 23:42:04 mdw Exp $
5 * Block-to-line buffering
7 * (c) 1999 Straylight/Edgeware
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30 /*----- Revision history --------------------------------------------------*
33 * Revision 1.3 1999/12/10 23:42:04 mdw
34 * Change header file guard names.
36 * Revision 1.2 1999/05/17 20:36:08 mdw
37 * Make the magical constants for the buffer flags uppercase.
39 * Revision 1.1 1999/05/14 21:01:14 mdw
40 * Integrated `select' handling bits from the background resolver project.
51 /*----- Line buffering ----------------------------------------------------*
53 * The line buffer accepts as input arbitrary-sized lumps of data and
54 * converts them, by passing them to a client-supplied function, into a
55 * sequence of lines. It's particularly useful when performing multiplexed
56 * network I/O. It's not normally acceptable to block while waiting for the
57 * rest of a text line to arrive, for example. The line buffer stores the
58 * start of the line until the rest of it arrives later.
60 * A line is a piece of text terminated by either a linefeed or a carriage-
61 * return/linefeed pair. (The former is there to cope with Unix; the latter
62 * copes with Internet-format line ends.)
64 * There's a limit to the size of lines that the buffer can cope with. It's
65 * not hard to remove this limit, but it's probably a bad idea in a lot of
66 * cases, because it'd allow a remote user to gobble arbitrary amounts of
67 * your memory. If a line exceeds the limit, it is truncated: the initial
68 * portion of the line is processed normally, and the remaining portion is
71 * Lines extracted from the input data are passed, one at a time, to a
72 * `handler function', along with a caller-supplied pointer argument to
73 * provide the handler with some context. The line read is null-terminated
74 * and does not include the trailing newline characters. It is legal for a
75 * handler function to modify the string it is passed. However, writing
76 * beyond the terminating null byte is not allowed. An end-of-file condition
77 * is signalled to the handler by passing it a null pointer rather than the
78 * address of a string.
80 * A complexity arises because of the concept of a `disabled' buffer.
81 * Disablement is really a higher-level concept, but it turns out to be
82 * important to implement it here. It's useful for a line handler function
83 * to `disable' itself, so that it doesn't get called any more. For example,
84 * this might happen if it encouters an error, or when it finishes reading
85 * everything it wanted to read. The line buffer needs to be `in the loop'
86 * so that it stops attempting to flush any further lines stored in its
87 * buffer towards a handler function which isn't ready to accept them.
88 * Buffers are initially enabled, although higher- level buffering systems
89 * might well disable them immediately for their own purposes.
92 /*----- Header files ------------------------------------------------------*/
96 /*----- Data structures ---------------------------------------------------*/
98 /* --- The buffer structure --- *
100 * The only thing that's safe to fiddle with in here is the @lbuf_enable@
101 * flag. Only higher-level buffering systems should be playing with even
105 typedef struct lbuf {
106 void (*func)(char */*s*/, void */*p*/); /* Handler function */
107 void *p; /* Argument for handler */
108 size_t len; /* Length of data in buffer */
109 unsigned f; /* Various useful state flags */
110 char buf[256]; /* The actual buffer */
114 LBUF_CR = 1, /* Read a carriage return */
115 LBUF_ENABLE = 2 /* Buffer is currently enabled */
118 /*----- Functions provided ------------------------------------------------*/
120 /* --- @lbuf_flush@ --- *
122 * Arguments: @lbuf *b@ = pointer to buffer block
123 * @char *p@ = pointer to where to start searching
124 * @size_t len@ = length of new material added
128 * Use: Flushes any complete lines in a line buffer. New material
129 * is assumed to have been added starting at @p@. If @p@ is
130 * null, then the scan starts at the beginning of the buffer,
131 * and the size of data already in the buffer is used in place
134 * It is assumed that the buffer is initially enabled. You
135 * shouldn't be contributing data to a disabled buffer anyway.
136 * However, the buffer handler may at some point disable itself,
137 * and @lbuf_flush@ can cope with this eventuality. Any pending
138 * data is left at the start of the buffer and can be flushed
139 * out by calling @lbuf_flush(b, 0, 0)@ if the buffer is ever
143 extern void lbuf_flush(lbuf */*b*/, char */*p*/, size_t /*len*/);
145 /* --- @lbuf_close@ --- *
147 * Arguments: @lbuf *b@ = pointer to buffer block
151 * Use: Empties the buffer of any data currently lurking in it, and
152 * informs the client that this has happened. It's assumed that
153 * the buffer is enabled: you shouldn't be reading close events
154 * on disabled buffers.
157 extern void lbuf_close(lbuf */*b*/);
159 /* --- @lbuf_free@ --- *
161 * Arguments: @lbuf *b@ = pointer to buffer block
162 * @char **p@ = output pointer to free space
164 * Returns: Free buffer size.
166 * Use: Returns the free portion of a line buffer. Data can then be
167 * written to this portion, and split out into lines by calling
171 extern size_t lbuf_free(lbuf */*b*/, char **/*p*/);
173 /* --- @lbuf_snarf@ --- *
175 * Arguments: @lbuf *b@ = pointer to buffer block
176 * @const void *p@ = pointer to input data buffer
177 * @size_t sz@ = size of data in input buffer
181 * Use: Snarfs the data from the input buffer and spits it out as
182 * lines. This interface ignores the complexities of dealing
183 * with disablement: you should be using @lbuf_free@ to
184 * contribute data if you want to cope with that.
187 extern void lbuf_snarf(lbuf */*b*/, const void */*p*/, size_t /*sz*/);
189 /* --- @lbuf_init@ --- *
191 * Arguments: @lbuf *b@ = pointer to buffer block
192 * @void (*func)(char *s, void *p)@ = handler function
193 * @void *p@ = argument pointer for @func@
197 * Use: Initializes a line buffer block. Any recognized lines are
198 * passed to @func@ for processing.
201 extern void lbuf_init(lbuf */*b*/,
202 void (*/*func*/)(char */*s*/, void */*p*/),
205 /*----- That's all, folks -------------------------------------------------*/