KEYRING-GETSTRING(2)

NAME

getstring, putstring, getbytearray, putbytearray, puterror − delimited I/O

SYNOPSIS

include "keyring.m"
keyring:= load Keyring Keyring->PATH;
getstring:   fn(fd: ref Sys->FD): (string, string);
putstring:   fn(fd: ref Sys->FD, s: string): int;
getbytearray:fn(fd: ref Sys->FD): (array of byte, string);
putbytearray: fn(fd: ref Sys->FD, a: array of byte, n: int): int;
puterror:     fn(fd: ref Sys->FD, s: string): int;

DESCRIPTION

These functions provide delimited I/O for strings, byte arrays and error strings over arbitrary networks.

Putstring writes string s to fd. It returns the number of bytes written, or -1 if an error occurred. Messages written by putstring are truncated to 4096 bytes.

Getstring reads a string as written by putstring from fd and returns a tuple (result,error). If successful, the error string is nil.

Putbytearray writes the array of bytes a to fd. It returns the number of bytes written, or -1 if an error occurred. Messages written by putbytearray are truncated to 4096 bytes.

Getbytearray reads an array of bytes as written by putbytearray from fd and returns a tuple of the form (result,error). If successful, the error string is nil.

Puterror writes an error string s to fd. It can be used in place of putstring or putbytearray to cause a corresponding getstring or getbytearray to fail (in the receiving process), forcing them to return the error string s. It may not be longer than Sys->ERRLEN bytes.

SOURCE

/interp/keyring.c

DIAGNOSTICS

The output functions return an int which is -1 if there was an I/O error, and a non-negative value otherwise. The input functions return a tuple that includes a string indicating the cause of the error, as the second element of the tuple.