listener.h revision 285612
1/*
2 * Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
3 * Copyright (c) 2007-2012 Niels Provos and Nick Mathewson
4 *
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26 */
27#ifndef EVENT2_LISTENER_H_INCLUDED_
28#define EVENT2_LISTENER_H_INCLUDED_
29
30#include <event2/visibility.h>
31
32#ifdef __cplusplus
33extern "C" {
34#endif
35
36#include <event2/event.h>
37
38struct sockaddr;
39struct evconnlistener;
40
41/**
42   A callback that we invoke when a listener has a new connection.
43
44   @param listener The evconnlistener
45   @param fd The new file descriptor
46   @param addr The source address of the connection
47   @param socklen The length of addr
48   @param user_arg the pointer passed to evconnlistener_new()
49 */
50typedef void (*evconnlistener_cb)(struct evconnlistener *, evutil_socket_t, struct sockaddr *, int socklen, void *);
51
52/**
53   A callback that we invoke when a listener encounters a non-retriable error.
54
55   @param listener The evconnlistener
56   @param user_arg the pointer passed to evconnlistener_new()
57 */
58typedef void (*evconnlistener_errorcb)(struct evconnlistener *, void *);
59
60/** Flag: Indicates that we should not make incoming sockets nonblocking
61 * before passing them to the callback. */
62#define LEV_OPT_LEAVE_SOCKETS_BLOCKING	(1u<<0)
63/** Flag: Indicates that freeing the listener should close the underlying
64 * socket. */
65#define LEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_FREE		(1u<<1)
66/** Flag: Indicates that we should set the close-on-exec flag, if possible */
67#define LEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_EXEC		(1u<<2)
68/** Flag: Indicates that we should disable the timeout (if any) between when
69 * this socket is closed and when we can listen again on the same port. */
70#define LEV_OPT_REUSEABLE		(1u<<3)
71/** Flag: Indicates that the listener should be locked so it's safe to use
72 * from multiple threadcs at once. */
73#define LEV_OPT_THREADSAFE		(1u<<4)
74/** Flag: Indicates that the listener should be created in disabled
75 * state. Use evconnlistener_enable() to enable it later. */
76#define LEV_OPT_DISABLED		(1u<<5)
77/** Flag: Indicates that the listener should defer accept() until data is
78 * available, if possible.  Ignored on platforms that do not support this.
79 *
80 * This option can help performance for protocols where the client transmits
81 * immediately after connecting.  Do not use this option if your protocol
82 * _doesn't_ start out with the client transmitting data, since in that case
83 * this option will sometimes cause the kernel to never tell you about the
84 * connection.
85 *
86 * This option is only supported by evconnlistener_new_bind(): it can't
87 * work with evconnlistener_new_fd(), since the listener needs to be told
88 * to use the option before it is actually bound.
89 */
90#define LEV_OPT_DEFERRED_ACCEPT		(1u<<6)
91/** Flag: Indicates that we ask to allow multiple servers (processes or
92 * threads) to bind to the same port if they each set the option.
93 *
94 * SO_REUSEPORT is what most people would expect SO_REUSEADDR to be, however
95 * SO_REUSEPORT does not imply SO_REUSEADDR.
96 *
97 * This is only available on Linux and kernel 3.9+
98 */
99#define LEV_OPT_REUSEABLE_PORT		(1u<<7)
100
101/**
102   Allocate a new evconnlistener object to listen for incoming TCP connections
103   on a given file descriptor.
104
105   @param base The event base to associate the listener with.
106   @param cb A callback to be invoked when a new connection arrives.  If the
107      callback is NULL, the listener will be treated as disabled until the
108      callback is set.
109   @param ptr A user-supplied pointer to give to the callback.
110   @param flags Any number of LEV_OPT_* flags
111   @param backlog Passed to the listen() call to determine the length of the
112      acceptable connection backlog.  Set to -1 for a reasonable default.
113      Set to 0 if the socket is already listening.
114   @param fd The file descriptor to listen on.  It must be a nonblocking
115      file descriptor, and it should already be bound to an appropriate
116      port and address.
117*/
118EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
119struct evconnlistener *evconnlistener_new(struct event_base *base,
120    evconnlistener_cb cb, void *ptr, unsigned flags, int backlog,
121    evutil_socket_t fd);
122/**
123   Allocate a new evconnlistener object to listen for incoming TCP connections
124   on a given address.
125
126   @param base The event base to associate the listener with.
127   @param cb A callback to be invoked when a new connection arrives. If the
128      callback is NULL, the listener will be treated as disabled until the
129      callback is set.
130   @param ptr A user-supplied pointer to give to the callback.
131   @param flags Any number of LEV_OPT_* flags
132   @param backlog Passed to the listen() call to determine the length of the
133      acceptable connection backlog.  Set to -1 for a reasonable default.
134   @param addr The address to listen for connections on.
135   @param socklen The length of the address.
136 */
137EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
138struct evconnlistener *evconnlistener_new_bind(struct event_base *base,
139    evconnlistener_cb cb, void *ptr, unsigned flags, int backlog,
140    const struct sockaddr *sa, int socklen);
141/**
142   Disable and deallocate an evconnlistener.
143 */
144EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
145void evconnlistener_free(struct evconnlistener *lev);
146/**
147   Re-enable an evconnlistener that has been disabled.
148 */
149EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
150int evconnlistener_enable(struct evconnlistener *lev);
151/**
152   Stop listening for connections on an evconnlistener.
153 */
154EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
155int evconnlistener_disable(struct evconnlistener *lev);
156
157/** Return an evconnlistener's associated event_base. */
158EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
159struct event_base *evconnlistener_get_base(struct evconnlistener *lev);
160
161/** Return the socket that an evconnlistner is listening on. */
162EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
163evutil_socket_t evconnlistener_get_fd(struct evconnlistener *lev);
164
165/** Change the callback on the listener to cb and its user_data to arg.
166 */
167EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
168void evconnlistener_set_cb(struct evconnlistener *lev,
169    evconnlistener_cb cb, void *arg);
170
171/** Set an evconnlistener's error callback. */
172EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
173void evconnlistener_set_error_cb(struct evconnlistener *lev,
174    evconnlistener_errorcb errorcb);
175
176#ifdef __cplusplus
177}
178#endif
179
180#endif
181