# $Id: Door.pm 37 2005-06-07 05:50:05Z asari $ =head1 NAME IPC::Door - Interface to Solaris (>= 2.6) Door library =head1 SYNOPSIS The server script: use IPC::Door::Server; use Fcntl; my $door = "/path/to/door"; my $dserver = new IPC::Door::Server($door, &mysub); while (1) { die "$door disappeared: $!\n" unless IPC::Door::is_door($door); sysopen( DOOR, $door, O_WRONLY ) || die "Can't write to $door: $!\n"; close DOOR; select undef, undef, undef, 0.2; } sub mysub { my $arg = shift; # do something my $ans; return $ans; } The client script: use IPC::Door::Client; use Fcntl; my $door = "/path/to/door"; my $dclient = new IPC::Door::Client($door); my $data; my $answer = $client->call($data, O_RDWR); =cut package IPC::Door; use 5.006; use strict; use warnings; use Carp; use POSIX qw[ :fcntl_h uname ]; # Make sure we're on an appropriate version of Solaris my ( $sysname, $release ) = ( POSIX::uname() )[ 0, 2 ]; my ( $major, $minor ) = split /\./, $release; die "This module requires Solaris 2.6 and later.\n" unless $sysname eq 'SunOS' && $major >= 5 && $minor >= 6; require Exporter; use AutoLoader; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( 'all' => [ qw( DOOR_ATTR_MASK DOOR_BIND DOOR_CALL DOOR_CREATE DOOR_CREATE_MASK DOOR_CRED DOOR_DELAY DOOR_DESCRIPTOR DOOR_EXIT DOOR_HANDLE DOOR_INFO DOOR_INVAL DOOR_IS_UNREF DOOR_KI_CREATE_MASK DOOR_LOCAL DOOR_PRIVATE DOOR_QUERY DOOR_REFUSE_DESC DOOR_RELEASE DOOR_RETURN DOOR_REVOKE DOOR_REVOKED DOOR_UCRED DOOR_UNBIND DOOR_UNREF DOOR_UNREF_ACTIVE DOOR_UNREF_MULTI DOOR_UNREFSYS DOOR_WAIT ) ], # door attributes (including "miscellaneous" ones) 'attr' => [ qw( DOOR_ATTR_MASK DOOR_CREATE_MASK DOOR_DELAY DOOR_IS_UNREF DOOR_KI_CREATE_MASK DOOR_LOCAL DOOR_PRIVATE DOOR_REFUSE_DESC DOOR_REVOKED DOOR_UNREF DOOR_UNREF_ACTIVE DOOR_UNREF_MULTI ) ], # attributes for door_desc_t data 'attr_desc' => [ qw( DOOR_DESCRIPTOR DOOR_HANDLE DOOR_RELEASE ) ], # constant door descriptors 'desc' => [ qw( DOOR_INVAL DOOR_QUERY ) ], # errors 'errors' => [ qw( DOOR_EXIT DOOR_WAIT ) ], # door operation subcodes 'subcodes' => [ qw( DOOR_BIND DOOR_CALL DOOR_CREATE DOOR_CRED DOOR_INFO DOOR_RETURN DOOR_REVOKE DOOR_UCRED DOOR_UNBIND DOOR_UNREFSYS ) ], ); our @EXPORT_OK = ( @{ $EXPORT_TAGS{'all'} } ); sub AUTOLOAD { # This AUTOLOAD is used to 'autoload' constants from the constant() # XS function. my $constname; our $AUTOLOAD; ( $constname = $AUTOLOAD ) =~ s/.*:://; croak "&IPC::Door::constant not defined" if $constname eq 'constant'; my ( $error, $val ) = constant($constname); if ($error) { croak $error; } { no strict 'refs'; # Fixed between 5.005_53 and 5.005_61 #XXX if ($] >= 5.00561) { #XXX *$AUTOLOAD = sub () { $val }; #XXX } #XXX else { *$AUTOLOAD = sub { $val }; #XXX } } goto &$AUTOLOAD; } our $VERSION = '0.11'; require XSLoader; XSLoader::load( 'IPC::Door', $VERSION ); =head1 ABSTRACT IPC::Door is a Perl extension to the door library present in Solaris 2.6 and later. =cut =head1 COMMON CLASS METHODS =head2 new The method C initializes the object, taking a mandatory argument C<$path>. Each C object is thus associated with a door through which it communicates with a server (if the object is a C<::Client>) or a client (if the object is a C<::Server>). In addition, the C object requires a reference to a code block C<&mysub>, which will be a part of the server process upon compilation. See L. =cut sub new { my ( $this, $path, $subref, $attr ) = @_; croak("Too few arguements for the 'new' method.\n") unless defined($path); my $class = ref($this) || $this; my $self = { 'path' => $path }; if ( $class eq 'IPC::Door::Server' ) { $attr = 0 unless defined( $attr ); unless ( defined($subref) ) { carp "Too few arguments for the 'new' method.\n"; } bless $self, $class; $self->{'callback'} = $subref; die "Can't create door to $path: $!\n" unless $self->__create( $path, $subref, $attr ); } elsif ( $class eq 'IPC::Door::Client' ) { bless $self, $class; } return $self; } =head2 is_door $dserver->is_door; IPC::Door::is_door('/path/to/door'); Subroutine C can be called either as an object method or as a subroutine. If the former, it determines if the path name assoicated with the object is a door. In the latter case, it determines if the path name passed to it is a door. =cut # Note that is_door() is implemented in C. =head2 info my ($target, $attr, $uniq) = IPC::Door::info($door); Subroutine C takes the path to a door and return array C<($target, $attributes, $uniquifer)>. C<$target> is the server process id that is listening through the door. C<$attributes> is the integer that represents the attributes of the door (see L), and C<$uniquifer> is the system-wide unique number associated with the door. =head3 Door attributes When testing for a door's attributes, it is convenient to import some symbols: C This imports symbols C C C C C C C C C C C Note that not all symbols are available in all versions of Solaris. =cut sub info ($) { my $self = shift; my $path = ( ref($self) =~ m/^IPC::Door::(Server|Client)$/ ) ? $self->{'path'} # We are called as an object method : $self; # Called as in 'IPC::Door::info($path)' return __info($path, ref($self)); # When we are called as an IPC::Door::Server method, we want to # pass DOOR_QUERY as the file descriptor to door_info(). # (This is supposed to work, according to Stevens, but it doesn't # seem to.) } sub DESTROY { my $self = shift; } 1; # end of IPC::Door __END__ =head1 KNOWN ISSUES =over 4 =item 1. Incomaptible with threaded perl I know this module does not work nicely if perl was configured with C<-Dusethreads> option. I know that the precompiled package from L has this option set. I am not sure about the one from L. =item 2. Compatibility with other door clients and servers The doors created by C evaluates the passed data in the scalar context before passing it to the door server. If you want to pass complex data structures, use the L module, which is standard as of Perl 5.8.0. Data an C object returns are probably incomprehensible and useless for non-C processes. You can read the source to find out exactly what are passed around, but it might not be worth your while to do that, when you can simply use C. (And of course, I might change the internal data structure in the future.) Conversely, C can read data from doors created by non-C processes, but it is entirely up to the C process to make sense of what's read. =item 3. Some C routines not implemented Some door library routines C, C, C, and C still need to be implemented. These routines contribute to custom door server creation, which may be too complicated and unnecessary for this module's needs; if such a fine control over the server creation process is required, perhaps you should be writing your utility in C! If you are really interested in this sort of thing, contact the author. C is only partially implemented. =item 4. Incomplete error checking There should be more robust error checking and more friendly error messages throughout. =item 5. Limited testing C has been tested on Solaris 8 (with Sun Workshop compiler), 9 (with gcc 3.3), and 10 (with gcc 4.0.0) (all on SPARC). I need more testing on following configurations (both SPARC and x86 unless otherwisse noted): =over 4 =item * Solaris 9 and 10 with Sun ONE Studio compiler (or whatever Sun calls its C compiler these days). =item * 64-bit perl executable. =item * Threaded perl. (See above.) =item * Solaris 10 on x86. =back Please let me know if you can help me test the module on these configurations. =item 6. A little inconsistent XS code I'm still a beginner at XS (some may argue also at Perl), so the code, especially the XS portion, can be improved. Any suggestions are welcome. =item 7. Unicode compatibility In my limited testing, I found that this module has difficulty dealing with Unicode data. =back =head1 SEE ALSO L, L door_bind(3DOOR) (L), door_call(3DOOR) (L), door_create(3DOOR) (L), door_cred(3DOOR) (L), door_info(3DOOR) (L), door_return(3DOOR) (L), door_revoke(3DOOR) (L), door_server_create(3DOOR) (L), door_ucred(3DOOR) (L), door_unbind(3DOOR) (L), I (L) I (L) =head1 AUTHOR ASARI Hirotsugu (L) =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2003-2005 by ASARI Hirotsugu This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut