| FCALL(3) | FCALL(3)

NAME

| Fcall, convS2M, convD2M, convM2S, convM2D, fcallfmt, dirfmt, dirmodefmt, read9pmsg, statcheck, sizeS2M, sizeD2M – interface to Plan 9 File protocol

SYNOPSIS

`#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
#include <fcall.h>

` `uint convS2M(Fcall *f, uchar *ap, uint nap)

` `uint convD2M(Dir *d, uchar *ap, uint nap)

` `uint convM2S(uchar *ap, uint nap, Fcall *f)

` `uint convM2D(uchar *ap, uint nap, Dir *d, char *strs)

` `int dirfmt(Fmt*)

` `int fcallfmt(Fmt*)

` `int dirmodefmt(Fmt*)

` `int read9pmsg(int fd, uchar *buf, uint nbuf)

` `int statcheck(uchar *buf, uint nbuf)

` `uint sizeS2M(Fcall *f)

` `uint sizeD2M(Dir *d)
`

DESCRIPTION

These routines convert messages in the machine-independent format of the Plan 9 file protocol, 9P, to and from a more convenient form, an `Fcall` structure:

`#define MAXWELEM 16
typedef
struct Fcall
{

uchar type;
u32int fid;
ushort tag;
union {

struct {
u32int msize; /* Tversion, Rversion */
char *version; /* Tversion, Rversion */
};
struct {
ushort oldtag; /* Tflush */
};
struct {
char *ename; /* Rerror */
};
struct {
Qid qid; /* Rattach, Ropen, Rcreate */
u32int iounit; /* Ropen, Rcreate */
};
struct {
Qid aqid; /* Rauth */
};
struct {
u32int afid; /* Tauth, Tattach */
char *uname; /* Tauth, Tattach */
char *aname; /* Tauth, Tattach */
};
struct {
u32int perm; /* Tcreate */
char *name; /* Tcreate */
uchar mode; /* Tcreate, Topen */
};
struct {
u32int newfid; /* Twalk */
ushort nwname; /* Twalk */
char *wname[MAXWELEM]; /* Twalk */
};
struct {
ushort nwqid; /* Rwalk */
Qid wqid[MAXWELEM]; /* Rwalk */
};
struct {
vlong offset; /* Tread, Twrite */
u32int count; /* Tread, Twrite, Rread */
char *data; /* Twrite, Rread */
};
struct {
ushort nstat; /* Twstat, Rstat */
uchar *stat; /* Twstat, Rstat */
};

};

} Fcall;
/* these are implemented as macros */
uchar GBIT8(uchar*)
ushort GBIT16(uchar*)
ulong GBIT32(uchar*)
vlong GBIT64(uchar*)
void PBIT8(uchar*, uchar)
void PBIT16(uchar*, ushort)
void PBIT32(uchar*, ulong)
void PBIT64(uchar*, vlong)
#define BIT8SZ 1
#define BIT16SZ 2
#define BIT32SZ 4
#define BIT64SZ 8

` This structure is defined in `<fcall.h>`. See section 5 for a full description of 9P messages and their encoding. For all message types, the `type` field of an `Fcall` holds one of `Tversion`, `Rversion`, `Tattach`, `Rattach`, etc. (defined in an enumerated type in `<fcall.h>`). `Fid` is used by most messages, and `tag` is used by all messages. The other fields are used selectively by the message types given in comments.

ConvM2S takes a 9P message at ap of length nap, and uses it to fill in `Fcall` structure f. If the passed message including any data for `Twrite` and `Rread` messages is formatted properly, the return value is the number of bytes the message occupied in the buffer ap, which will always be less than or equal to nap; otherwise it is 0. For `Twrite` and `Tread` messages, `data` is set to a pointer into the argument message, not a copy.

ConvS2M does the reverse conversion, turning f into a message starting at ap. The length of the resulting message is returned. For `Twrite` and `Rread` messages, `count` bytes starting at `data` are copied into the message.

The constant `IOHDRSZ` is a suitable amount of buffer to reserve for storing the 9P header; the data portion of a `Twrite` or `Rread` will be no more than the buffer size negotiated in the `Tversion/Rversion` exchange, minus `IOHDRSZ`.

The routine sizeS2M returns the number of bytes required to store the machine-independent representation of the `Fcall` structure f, including its initial 32-bit size field. In other words, it reports the number of bytes produced by a successful call to convS2M.

Another structure is `Dir`, used by the routines described in stat(3). ConvM2D converts the machine-independent form starting at ap into d and returns the length of the machine-independent encoding. The strings in the returned `Dir` structure are stored at successive locations starting at `strs`. Usually `strs` will point to storage immediately after the `Dir` itself. It can also be a `nil` pointer, in which case the string pointers in the returned `Dir` are all `nil`; however, the return value still includes their length.

ConvD2M does the reverse translation, also returning the length of the encoding. If the buffer is too short, the return value will be `BIT16SZ` and the correct size will be returned in the first `BIT16SZ` bytes. (If the buffer is less that `BIT16SZ`, the return value is zero; therefore a correct test for complete packing of the message is that the return value is greater than `BIT16SZ`). The macro `GBIT16` can be used to extract the correct value. The related macros with different sizes retrieve the corresponding-sized quantities. `PBIT16` and its brethren place values in messages. With the exception of handling short buffers in convD2M, these macros are not usually needed except by internal routines.

Analogous to sizeS2M, sizeD2M returns the number of bytes required to store the machine-independent representation of the `Dir` structure d, including its initial 16-bit size field.

The routine `statcheck` checks whether the nbuf bytes of buf contain a validly formatted machine-independent `Dir` entry suitable as an argument, for example, for the `wstat` (see stat(3)) system call. It checks that the sizes of all the elements of the the entry sum to exactly nbuf, which is a simple but effective test of validity. Nbuf and buf should include the second two-byte (16-bit) length field that precedes the entry when formatted in a 9P message (see stat(9p)); in other words, nbuf is 2 plus the sum of the sizes of the entry itself. Statcheck also verifies that the length field has the correct value (that is, nbuf`−2`). It returns `0` for a valid entry and `−1` for an incorrectly formatted entry.

Dirfmt, fcallfmt, and dirmodefmt are formatting routines, suitable for fmtinstall(3). They convert `Dir*`, `Fcall*`, and `long` values into string representations of the directory buffer, `Fcall` buffer, or file mode value. Fcallfmt assumes that dirfmt has been installed with format letter `D` and dirmodefmt with format letter `M`.

Read9pmsg calls read(3) multiple times, if necessary, to read an entire 9P message into `buf`. The return value is 0 for end of file, or -1 for error; it does not return partial messages.

SOURCE

| `/usr/local/plan9/src/lib9`

SEE ALSO

| intro(3), 9p(3), stat(3), intro(9p)