/**
* A serious error occured while operating on this stream
*/
- GNUNET_STREAM_SYSERR = 3
+ GNUNET_STREAM_SYSERR = 3,
+
+ /**
+ * An error resulted in an unusable stream
+ */
+ GNUNET_STREAM_BROKEN
};
/**
/**
- * Shutdown the stream for reading or writing (man 2 shutdown).
+ * Handle for shutdown
+ */
+struct GNUNET_STREAM_ShutdownHandle;
+
+
+/**
+ * Completion callback for shutdown
+ *
+ * @param cls the closure from GNUNET_STREAM_shutdown call
+ * @param operation the operation that was shutdown (SHUT_RD, SHUT_WR,
+ * SHUT_RDWR)
+ */
+typedef void (*GNUNET_STREAM_ShutdownCompletion) (void *cls,
+ int operation);
+
+
+/**
+ * Shutdown the stream for reading or writing (similar to man 2 shutdown).
*
* @param socket the stream socket
- * @param how SHUT_RD, SHUT_WR or SHUT_RDWR
+ * @param operation SHUT_RD, SHUT_WR or SHUT_RDWR
+ * @param completion_cb the callback that will be called upon successful
+ * shutdown of given operation
+ * @param completion_cls the closure for the completion callback
+ * @return the shutdown handle; NULL in case of any error
*/
-void
+struct GNUNET_STREAM_ShutdownHandle *
GNUNET_STREAM_shutdown (struct GNUNET_STREAM_Socket *socket,
- int how);
+ int operation,
+ GNUNET_STREAM_ShutdownCompletion completion_cb,
+ void *completion_cls);
+
+
+/**
+ * Cancels a pending shutdown
+ *
+ * @param handle the shutdown handle returned from GNUNET_STREAM_shutdown
+ */
+void
+GNUNET_STREAM_shutdown_cancel (struct GNUNET_STREAM_ShutdownHandle *handle);
/**
- * Closes the stream
+ * Closes the stream and frees the associated state. The stream should be
+ * shutdown before closing.
*
* @param socket the stream socket
*/
/**
* Closes the listen socket
*
- * @param socket the listen socket
+ * @param lsocket the listen socket
*/
void
-GNUNET_STREAM_listen_close (struct GNUNET_STREAM_ListenSocket *socket);
+GNUNET_STREAM_listen_close (struct GNUNET_STREAM_ListenSocket *lsocket);
/**
struct GNUNET_STREAM_IOReadHandle;
/**
- * Tries to write the given data to the stream
+ * Tries to write the given data to the stream. The maximum size of data that
+ * can be written as part of a write operation is (64 * (64000 - sizeof (struct
+ * GNUNET_STREAM_DataMessage))). If size is greater than this it is not an API
+ * violation, however only the said number of maximum bytes will be written.
*
* @param socket the socket representing a stream
* @param data the data buffer from where the data is written into the stream
* @param size the number of bytes to be written from the data buffer
* @param timeout the timeout period
- * @param write_cont the function to call upon writing some bytes into the stream
+ * @param write_cont the function to call upon writing some bytes into the
+ * stream
* @param write_cont_cls the closure
- * @return handle to cancel the operation; NULL if a previous write is pending
+ *
+ * @return handle to cancel the operation; if a previous write is pending or
+ * the stream has been shutdown for this operation then write_cont is
+ * immediately called and NULL is returned.
*/
struct GNUNET_STREAM_IOWriteHandle *
GNUNET_STREAM_write (struct GNUNET_STREAM_Socket *socket,
* @param cls the closure from GNUNET_STREAM_read
* @param status the status of the stream at the time this function is called
* @param data traffic from the other side
- * @param size the number of bytes available in data read
+ * @param size the number of bytes available in data read; will be 0 on timeout
* @return number of bytes of processed from 'data' (any data remaining should be
* given to the next time the read processor is called).
*/
/**
- * Tries to read data from the stream
+ * Tries to read data from the stream.
*
* @param socket the socket representing a stream
* @param timeout the timeout period
* @param proc function to call with data (once only)
* @param proc_cls the closure for proc
- * @return handle to cancel the operation
+ *
+ * @return handle to cancel the operation; if the stream has been shutdown for
+ * this type of opeartion then the DataProcessor is immediately
+ * called with GNUNET_STREAM_SHUTDOWN as status and NULL if returned
*/
struct GNUNET_STREAM_IOReadHandle *
GNUNET_STREAM_read (struct GNUNET_STREAM_Socket *socket,
/**
- * Cancel pending write operation.
+ * Cancels pending write operation. Also cancels packet retransmissions which
+ * may have resulted otherwise.
+ *
+ * CAUTION: Normally a write operation is considered successful if the data
+ * given to it is sent and acknowledged by the receiver. As data is divided
+ * into packets, it is possible that not all packets are received by the
+ * receiver. Any missing packets are then retransmitted till the receiver
+ * acknowledges all packets or until a timeout . During this scenario if the
+ * write operation is cancelled all such retransmissions are also
+ * cancelled. This may leave the receiver's receive buffer incompletely filled
+ * as some missing packets are never retransmitted. So this operation should be
+ * used before shutting down transmission from our side or before closing the
+ * socket.
*
* @param ioh handle to operation to cancel
*/
void
-GNUNET_STREAM_io_write_cancel (struct GNUNET_STREAM_IOWriteHandle *ioh);
+GNUNET_STREAM_io_write_cancel (struct GNUNET_STREAM_IOWriteHandle *iowh);
/**
* @param ioh handle to operation to cancel
*/
void
-GNUNET_STREAM_io_read_cancel (struct GNUNET_STREAM_IOReadHandle *ioh);
+GNUNET_STREAM_io_read_cancel (struct GNUNET_STREAM_IOReadHandle *iorh);
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