ref: a920c765f2b4130590fb5971a50690b21664957a
dir: /man/2/keyring-getmsg/
.TH KEYRING-GETMSG 2 .SH NAME keyring: getmsg, sendmsg, senderrmsg \- send and receive messages on undelimited streams .SH SYNOPSIS .EX include "keyring.m"; keyring := load Keyring Keyring->PATH; getmsg: fn(fd: ref Sys->FD): array of byte; sendmsg: fn(fd: ref Sys->FD, buf: array of byte, n: int): int; senderrmsg: fn(fd: ref Sys->FD, s: string): int; .EE .SH DESCRIPTION These functions allow arbitrary data, packed into arrays of bytes, to be exchanged on network connections using connection-oriented transport protocols that do not preserve record boundaries (eg, TCP/IP without .IR ssl (3)). They are used to implement various authentication protocols, including .IR auth (6), as implemented by .IR keyring-auth (2). .PP Each data message is transmitted with a five-byte header containing a four-character zero-padded decimal count .I n terminated by a newline, followed by .I n bytes of message data. An error message has a similar structure, except that the first character of the count is replaced by an exclamation mark .RB ( ! ); the message data following contains the diagnostic string in its UTF-8 encoding (see .IR utf (6)). .PP .B Getmsg reads the next message from .I fd and returns its data content. .PP .B Sendmsg sends the first .I n bytes of .I buf as a message on .IR fd , and returns .IR n . .PP .B Senderrmsg sends the error message .IR s . .SH SOURCE .B /libinterp/keyring.c .SH DIAGNOSTICS .B Sendmsg and .B senderrmsg return -1 if there was an error writing to .IR fd ; they set the system error string. .B Getmsg returns nil if there was an error reading from .IR fd ; it sets the system error string to reflect the cause. It also returns nil if an error message was received instead of a data message; the system error string will contain the error message's diagnostic.