| 9P-CMDBUF(3) | 9P-CMDBUF(3)

NAME

| Cmdbuf, parsecmd, respondcmderror, lookupcmd – control message parsing

SYNOPSIS

`#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
#include <fcall.h>
#include <thread.h>
#include <9p.h>

typedef struct Cmdbuf
{

| char *buf; char **f; int nf;

} Cmdbuf;
typedef struct Cmdtab
{

| int index; char *cmd; int narg;

};
Cmdbuf *parsecmd(char *p, int n)
Cmdtab *lookupcmd(Cmdbuf *cb, Cmdtab *tab, int ntab)
void respondcmderror(Req *r, Cmdbuf *cb, char *fmt, ...)
`

DESCRIPTION

These data structures and functions provide parsing of textual control messages.

Parsecmd treats the n bytes at p (which need not be NUL-terminated) as a UTF string and splits it using tokenize (see getfields(3)). It returns a `Cmdbuf` structure holding pointers to each field in the message.

Lookupcmd walks through the array ctab, which has ntab entries, looking for the first `Cmdtab` that matches the parsed command. (If the parsed command is empty, lookupcmd returns nil immediately.) A `Cmdtab` matches the command if cmd is equal to cb`−>`f`[0]` or if cmd is `*`. Once a matching `Cmdtab` has been found, if narg is not zero, then the parsed command must have exactly narg fields (including the command string itself). If the command has the wrong number of arguments, lookupcmd returns nil. Otherwise, it returns a pointer to the `Cmdtab` entry. If lookupcmd does not find a matching command at all, it returns nil. Whenever lookupcmd returns nil, it sets the system error string.

Respondcmderror resoponds to request r with an error of the form ‘fmt: cmd,’ where fmt is the formatted string and cmd is a reconstruction of the parsed command. Fmt is often simply `%r .
`

EXAMPLES

| This interface is not used in any distributed 9P servers. It was lifted from the Plan 9 kernel. Almost any Plan 9 kernel driver (`/sys/src/9/*/dev*.c` on Plan 9) is a good example.

SOURCE

| `/usr/local/plan9/src/lib9p/parse.c`

SEE ALSO

| 9p(3)