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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libstand/libstand.3,v 1.5.2.11 2002/06/26 19:14:43 schweikh Exp $ .\" .Dd April 8, 2019 .Dt LIBSTAND 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm libstand .Nd support library for standalone executables .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libstand .Sh SYNOPSIS .In stand.h .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm provides a set of supporting functions for standalone applications, mimicking where possible the standard .Bx programming environment. The following sections group these functions by kind. Unless specifically described here, see the corresponding section 3 manpages for the given functions. .Sh STRING FUNCTIONS String functions are available as documented in .Xr string 3 and .Xr bstring 3 . .Sh MEMORY ALLOCATION .Bl -hang -width 10n .It Xo .Ft "void *" .Fn malloc "size_t size" .Xc .Pp Allocate .Fa size bytes of memory from the heap using a best-fit algorithm. .It Xo .Ft void .Fn free "void *ptr" .Xc .Pp Free the allocated object at .Fa ptr . .It Xo .Ft void .Fn setheap "void *start" "void *limit" .Xc .Pp Initialise the heap. This function must be called before calling .Fn alloc for the first time. The region between .Fa start and .Fa limit will be used for the heap; attempting to allocate beyond this will result in a panic. .It Xo .Ft "char *" .Fn sbrk "intptr_t incr" .Xc .Pp Provides the behaviour of .Fn sbrk 0 , i.e.\& returns the highest point that the heap has reached. This value can be used during testing to determine the actual heap usage. The .Fa incr argument is ignored. .El .Sh ENVIRONMENT A set of functions are provided for manipulating a flat variable space similar to the traditional shell-supported environment. Major enhancements are support for set/unset hook functions. .Bl -hang -width 10n .It Xo .Ft "char *" .Fn getenv "const char *name" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn setenv "const char *name" "char *value" "int overwrite" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn putenv "const char *string" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn unsetenv "const char *name" .Xc .Pp These functions behave similarly to their standard library counterparts. .It Xo .Ft "struct env_var *" .Fn env_getenv "const char *name" .Xc .Pp Looks up a variable in the environment and returns its entire data structure. .It Xo .Ft int .Fn env_setenv "const char *name" "int flags" "char *value" "ev_sethook_t sethook" "ev_unsethook_t unsethook" .Xc .Pp Creates a new or sets an existing environment variable called .Fa name . If creating a new variable, the .Fa sethook and .Fa unsethook arguments may be specified. .Pp The set hook is invoked whenever an attempt is made to set the variable, unless the .Dv EV_NOHOOK flag is set. Typically a set hook will validate the .Fa value argument, and then call .Fn env_setenv again with .Dv EV_NOHOOK set to actually save the value. The predefined function .Fn env_noset may be specified to refuse all attempts to set a variable. .Pp The unset hook is invoked when an attempt is made to unset a variable. If it returns zero, the variable will be unset. The predefined function .Fn env_nounset may be used to prevent a variable being unset. .El .Sh STANDARD LIBRARY SUPPORT .Bl -hang -width 10n .It Xo .Ft int .Fn getopt "int argc" "char * const *argv" "const char *optstring" .Xc .It Xo .Ft long .Fn strtol "const char *nptr" "char **endptr" "int base" .Xc .It Xo .Ft void .Fn srandom "unsigned long seed" .Xc .It Xo .Ft "unsigned long" .Fn random void .Xc .It Xo .Ft "char *" .Fn strerror "int error" .Xc .Pp Returns error messages for the subset of .Va errno values supported by .Nm . .It Fn assert expression .Pp Requires .In assert.h . .It Xo .Ft int .Fn setjmp "jmp_buf env" .Xc .It Xo .Ft void .Fn longjmp "jmp_buf env" "int val" .Xc .Pp Defined as .Fn _setjmp and .Fn _longjmp respectively as there is no signal state to manipulate. Requires .In setjmp.h . .El .Sh CHARACTER I/O .Bl -hang -width 10n .It Xo .Ft void .Fn gets "char *buf" .Xc .Pp Read characters from the console into .Fa buf . All of the standard cautions apply to this function. .It Xo .Ft void .Fn ngets "char *buf" "size_t size" .Xc .Pp Read at most .Fa size - 1 characters from the console into .Fa buf . If .Fa size is less than 1, the function's behaviour is as for .Fn gets . .It Xo .Ft char * .Fn fgets "char *buf" "int size" "int fd" .Xc .Pp Read a line of at most .Fa size Ns -1 characters into .Fa buf . Line terminating characters are not stripped, and the buffer is always nul-terminated. Upon successful completion a pointer to the string is returned. If end-of-file occurs before any characters are read, NULL is returned and the buffer contents remain unchanged. If an error occurs, NULL is returned and the buffer contents are indeterminate. .It Xo .Ft int .Fn fgetstr "char *buf" "int size" "int fd" .Xc .Pp Read a line of at most .Fa size characters into .Fa buf . Line terminating characters are stripped, and the buffer is always nul-terminated. Returns the number of characters in .Fa buf if successful, or -1 if a read error occurs. .It Xo .Ft int .Fn printf "const char *fmt" "..." .Xc .It Xo .Ft void .Fn vprintf "const char *fmt" "va_list ap" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn sprintf "char *buf" "const char *fmt" "..." .Xc .It Xo .Ft void .Fn vsprintf "char *buf" "const char *fmt" "va_list ap" .Xc .Pp The *printf functions implement a subset of the standard .Fn printf family functionality and some extensions. The following standard conversions are supported: .Cm c , d , n , o , p , s , u , x . The following modifiers are supported: .Cm + , - , # , * , 0 , field width , precision , l . .El .Sh CHARACTER TESTS AND CONVERSIONS .Bl -hang -width 10n .It Xo .Ft int .Fn isupper "int c" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn islower "int c" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn isspace "int c" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn isdigit "int c" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn isxdigit "int c" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn isascii "int c" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn isalpha "int c" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn toupper "int c" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn tolower "int c" .Xc .El .Sh FILE I/O .Bl -hang -width 10n .It Xo .Ft int .Fn open "const char *path" "int flags" .Xc .Pp Similar to the behaviour as specified in .Xr open 2 , except that file creation is not supported, so the mode parameter is not required. The .Fa flags argument may be one of .Dv O_RDONLY , .Dv O_WRONLY and .Dv O_RDWR (although no filesystems currently support writing). .It Xo .Ft int .Fn close "int fd" .Xc .It Xo .Ft void .Fn closeall void .Xc .Pp Close all open files. .It Xo .Ft ssize_t .Fn read "int fd" "void *buf" "size_t len" .Xc .It Xo .Ft ssize_t .Fn write "int fd" "void *buf" "size_t len" .Xc .Pp (No filesystems currently support writing.) .It Xo .Ft off_t .Fn lseek "int fd" "off_t offset" "int whence" .Xc .Pp Files being automatically uncompressed during reading cannot seek backwards from the current point. .It Xo .Ft int .Fn stat "const char *path" "struct stat *sb" .Xc .It Xo .Ft int .Fn fstat "int fd" "struct stat *sb" .Xc .Pp The .Fn stat and .Fn fstat functions only fill out the following fields in the .Fa sb structure: .Fa st_mode , st_nlink , st_uid , st_gid , st_size . The .Nm tftp filesystem cannot provide meaningful values for this call, and the .Nm cd9660 filesystem always reports files having uid/gid of zero. .El .Sh PAGER .Nm supplies a simple internal pager to ease reading the output of large commands. .Bl -hang -width 10n .It Xo .Ft void .Fn pager_open .Xc .Pp Initialises the pager and tells it that the next line output will be the top of the display. The environment variable LINES is consulted to determine the number of lines to be displayed before pausing. .It Xo .Ft void .Fn pager_close void .Xc .Pp Closes the pager. .It Xo .Ft int .Fn pager_output "char *lines" .Xc .Pp Sends the lines in the nul-terminated buffer at .Fa lines to the pager. Newline characters are counted in order to determine the number of lines being output (wrapped lines are not accounted for). .Fn pager_output will return zero when all of the lines have been output, or nonzero if the display was paused and the user elected to quit. .It Xo .Ft int .Fn pager_file "char *fname" .Xc .Pp Attempts to open and display the file .Fa fname . Returns -1 on error, 0 at .Dv EOF , or 1 if the user elects to quit while reading. .El .Sh NETWORK .Bl -hang -width 10n .It Xo .Ft "char *" .Fn ether_sprintf "u_char *ap" .Xc .Pp Convert an ethernet address to its human readable notation as specified in IEEE 802. .El .Sh MISC .Bl -hang -width 10n .It Xo .Ft void .Fn twiddle void .Xc .Pp Successive calls emit the characters in the sequence |, /, -, \\ followed by a backspace in order to provide reassurance to the user. .El .Sh REQUIRED LOW-LEVEL SUPPORT The following resources are consumed by .Nm - stack, heap, console and devices. .Pp The stack must be established before .Nm functions can be invoked. Stack requirements vary depending on the functions and filesystems used by the consumer and the support layer functions detailed below. .Pp The heap must be established before calling .Fn alloc or .Fn open by calling .Fn setheap . Heap usage will vary depending on the number of simultaneously open files, as well as client behaviour. Automatic decompression will allocate more than 64K of data per open file. .Pp Console access is performed via the .Fn getchar , .Fn putchar and .Fn ischar functions detailed below. .Pp Device access is initiated via .Fn devopen and is performed through the .Fn dv_strategy , .Fn dv_ioctl and .Fn dv_close functions in the device switch structure that .Fn devopen returns. .Pp The consumer must provide the following support functions: .Bl -hang -width 10n .It Xo .Ft int .Fn getchar void .Xc .Pp Return a character from the console, used by .Fn gets , .Fn ngets and pager functions. .It Xo .Ft int .Fn ischar void .Xc .Pp Returns nonzero if a character is waiting from the console. .It Xo .Ft void .Fn putchar int .Xc .Pp Write a character to the console, used by .Fn gets , .Fn ngets , .Fn *printf , .Fn panic and .Fn twiddle and thus by many other functions for debugging and informational output. .It Xo .Ft int .Fn devopen "struct open_file *of" "const char *name" "char **file" .Xc .Pp Open the appropriate device for the file named in .Fa name , returning in .Fa file a pointer to the remaining body of .Fa name which does not refer to the device. The .Va f_dev field in .Fa of will be set to point to the .Vt devsw structure for the opened device if successful. Device identifiers must always precede the path component, but may otherwise be arbitrarily formatted. Used by .Fn open and thus for all device-related I/O. .It Xo .Ft int .Fn devclose "struct open_file *of" .Xc .Pp Close the device allocated for .Fa of . The device driver itself will already have been called for the close; this call should clean up any allocation made by .Fn devopen only. .It Xo .Ft void .Fn panic "const char *msg" "..." .Xc .Pp Signal a fatal and unrecoverable error condition. The .Fa msg ... arguments are as for .Fn printf . .El .Sh INTERNAL FILESYSTEMS Internal filesystems are enabled by the consumer exporting the array .Vt struct fs_ops *file_system[] , which should be initialised with pointers to .Vt struct fs_ops structures. The following filesystem handlers are supplied by .Nm , the consumer may supply other filesystems of their own: .Bl -hang -width ".Va cd9660_fsops" .It Va ufs_fsops The .Bx .Xr UFS 5 . .It Va hammer1_fsops .Xr HAMMER 5 filesystem. .It Va hammer2_fsops Hammer2 filesystem. .It Va ext2fs_fsops Linux ext2fs filesystem. .It Va msdos_fsops MS-DOS filesystem. .It Va tftp_fsops File access via TFTP. .It Va nfs_fsops File access via NFS. .It Va cd9660_fsops ISO 9660 (CD-ROM) filesystem. .It Va gzipfs_fsops Stacked filesystem supporting gzipped files. When trying the gzipfs filesystem, .Nm appends .Li .gz to the end of the filename, and then tries to locate the file using the other filesystems. Placement of this filesystem in the .Va file_system[] array determines whether gzipped files will be opened in preference to non-gzipped files. It is only possible to seek a gzipped file forwards, and .Fn stat and .Fn fstat on gzipped files will report an invalid length. .It Va bzipfs_fsops The same as .Va gzipfs_fsops , but for .Xr bzip2 1 Ns -compressed files. .El .Pp The array of .Vt struct fs_ops pointers should be terminated with a NULL. .Sh DEVICES Devices are exported by the supporting code via the array .Vt struct devsw *devsw[] which is a NULL terminated array of pointers to device switch structures. .Sh HISTORY .Nm contains contributions from many sources, including: .Bl -bullet -compact .It .Nm libsa from .Nx .It .Nm libc and .Nm libkern from .Fx 3.0 . .It .Nm zalloc from .An Matthew Dillon Aq Mt dillon@backplane.com .El .Pp The reorganisation and port to .Fx 3.0 , the environment functions and this manpage were written by .An Mike Smith Aq Mt msmith@FreeBSD.org . .Sh BUGS The lack of detailed memory usage data is unhelpful.