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authorJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-05-18 13:18:31 +0300
committerJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-05-18 13:42:15 +0300
commit437fd90c0250dee670290f9b714253671a990160 (patch)
treeb871786c360704244a07411c69fb58da9ead4a06 /qemu/include/io/channel-file.h
parent5bbd6fe9b8bab2a93e548c5a53b032d1939eec05 (diff)
These changes are the raw update to qemu-2.6.
Collission happened in the following patches: migration: do cleanup operation after completion(738df5b9) Bug fix.(1750c932f86) kvmclock: add a new function to update env->tsc.(b52baab2) The code provided by the patches was already in the upstreamed version. Change-Id: I3cc11841a6a76ae20887b2e245710199e1ea7f9a Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
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+/*
+ * QEMU I/O channels files driver
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2015 Red Hat, Inc.
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef QIO_CHANNEL_FILE_H__
+#define QIO_CHANNEL_FILE_H__
+
+#include "io/channel.h"
+
+#define TYPE_QIO_CHANNEL_FILE "qio-channel-file"
+#define QIO_CHANNEL_FILE(obj) \
+ OBJECT_CHECK(QIOChannelFile, (obj), TYPE_QIO_CHANNEL_FILE)
+
+typedef struct QIOChannelFile QIOChannelFile;
+
+/**
+ * QIOChannelFile:
+ *
+ * The QIOChannelFile object provides a channel implementation
+ * that is able to perform I/O on block devices, character
+ * devices, FIFOs, pipes and plain files. While it is technically
+ * able to work on sockets too on the UNIX platform, this is not
+ * portable to Windows and lacks some extra sockets specific
+ * functionality. So the QIOChannelSocket object is recommended
+ * for that use case.
+ *
+ */
+
+struct QIOChannelFile {
+ QIOChannel parent;
+ int fd;
+};
+
+
+/**
+ * qio_channel_file_new_fd:
+ * @fd: the file descriptor
+ *
+ * Create a new IO channel object for a file represented
+ * by the @fd parameter. @fd can be associated with a
+ * block device, character device, fifo, pipe, or a
+ * regular file. For sockets, the QIOChannelSocket class
+ * should be used instead, as this provides greater
+ * functionality and cross platform portability.
+ *
+ * The channel will own the passed in file descriptor
+ * and will take responsibility for closing it, so the
+ * caller must not close it. If appropriate the caller
+ * should dup() its FD before opening the channel.
+ *
+ * Returns: the new channel object
+ */
+QIOChannelFile *
+qio_channel_file_new_fd(int fd);
+
+/**
+ * qio_channel_file_new_path:
+ * @fd: the file descriptor
+ * @flags: the open flags (O_RDONLY|O_WRONLY|O_RDWR, etc)
+ * @mode: the file creation mode if O_WRONLY is set in @flags
+ * @errp: pointer to initialized error object
+ *
+ * Create a new IO channel object for a file represented
+ * by the @path parameter. @path can point to any
+ * type of file on which sequential I/O can be
+ * performed, whether it be a plain file, character
+ * device or block device.
+ *
+ * Returns: the new channel object
+ */
+QIOChannelFile *
+qio_channel_file_new_path(const char *path,
+ int flags,
+ mode_t mode,
+ Error **errp);
+
+#endif /* QIO_CHANNEL_FILE_H__ */