channel-watch.h (2959B)
1/* 2 * QEMU I/O channels watch helper APIs 3 * 4 * Copyright (c) 2015 Red Hat, Inc. 5 * 6 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 7 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public 8 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either 9 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 10 * 11 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 12 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 13 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 14 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 15 * 16 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 17 * License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 18 * 19 */ 20 21#ifndef QIO_CHANNEL_WATCH_H 22#define QIO_CHANNEL_WATCH_H 23 24#include "io/channel.h" 25 26/* 27 * This module provides helper functions that will be needed by 28 * the various QIOChannel implementations, for creating watches 29 * on file descriptors / sockets 30 */ 31 32/** 33 * qio_channel_create_fd_watch: 34 * @ioc: the channel object 35 * @fd: the file descriptor 36 * @condition: the I/O condition 37 * 38 * Create a new main loop source that is able to 39 * monitor the file descriptor @fd for the 40 * I/O conditions in @condition. This is able 41 * monitor block devices, character devices, 42 * pipes but not plain files or, on Win32, sockets. 43 * 44 * Returns: the new main loop source 45 */ 46GSource *qio_channel_create_fd_watch(QIOChannel *ioc, 47 int fd, 48 GIOCondition condition); 49 50/** 51 * qio_channel_create_socket_watch: 52 * @ioc: the channel object 53 * @fd: the file descriptor 54 * @condition: the I/O condition 55 * 56 * Create a new main loop source that is able to 57 * monitor the file descriptor @fd for the 58 * I/O conditions in @condition. This is equivalent 59 * to qio_channel_create_fd_watch on POSIX systems 60 * but not on Windows. 61 * 62 * Returns: the new main loop source 63 */ 64GSource *qio_channel_create_socket_watch(QIOChannel *ioc, 65 int fd, 66 GIOCondition condition); 67 68/** 69 * qio_channel_create_fd_pair_watch: 70 * @ioc: the channel object 71 * @fdread: the file descriptor for reading 72 * @fdwrite: the file descriptor for writing 73 * @condition: the I/O condition 74 * 75 * Create a new main loop source that is able to 76 * monitor the pair of file descriptors @fdread 77 * and @fdwrite for the I/O conditions in @condition. 78 * This is intended for monitoring unidirectional 79 * file descriptors such as pipes, where a pair 80 * of descriptors is required for bidirectional 81 * I/O 82 * 83 * Returns: the new main loop source 84 */ 85GSource *qio_channel_create_fd_pair_watch(QIOChannel *ioc, 86 int fdread, 87 int fdwrite, 88 GIOCondition condition); 89 90#endif /* QIO_CHANNEL_WATCH_H */