libdill: Structured Concurrency for C

NAME

ipc_connect - creates a connection to remote IPC endpoint

SYNOPSIS

#include <libdill.h>

int ipc_connect(
    const char* addr,
    int64_t deadline);

DESCRIPTION

IPC protocol is a bytestream protocol for transporting data among processes on the same machine. It is an equivalent to POSIX AF_LOCAL sockets.

This function creates a connection to a remote IPC endpoint.

addr: Filename to connect to.

deadline: A point in time when the operation should time out, in milliseconds. Use the now function to get your current point in time. 0 means immediate timeout, i.e., perform the operation if possible or return without blocking if not. -1 means no deadline, i.e., the call will block forever if the operation cannot be performed.

The socket can be cleanly shut down using ipc_close function.

This function is not available if libdill is compiled with --disable-sockets option.

RETURN VALUE

In case of success the function returns newly created socket handle. In case of error it returns -1 and sets errno to one of the values below.

ERRORS

EACCES: The process does not have appropriate privileges.
ECANCELED: Current coroutine was canceled.
ECONNREFUSED: The target address was not listening for connections or refused the connection request.
ECONNRESET: Remote host reset the connection request.
EINVAL: Invalid argument.
ELOOP: A loop exists in symbolic links encountered during resolution of the pathname in address.
EMFILE: The maximum number of file descriptors in the process are already open.
ENAMETOOLONG: A component of a pathname exceeded NAME_MAX characters, or an entire pathname exceeded PATH_MAX characters.
ENFILE: The maximum number of file descriptors in the system are already open.
ENOENT: A component of the pathname does not name an existing file or the pathname is an empty string.
ENOMEM: Not enough memory.
ENOTDIR: A component of the path prefix of the pathname in address is not a directory.
ETIMEDOUT: Deadline was reached.

EXAMPLE

int s = ipc_connect("/tmp/test.ipc", -1);
bsend(s, "ABC", 3, -1);
char buf[3];
brecv(s, buf, sizeof(buf), -1);
ipc_close(s);