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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2015-01-26 22:26:57 +0000
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+<h1> The <tt>s6-fdholder-getdumpc</tt> program </h1>
+
+<p>
+<tt>s6-fdholder-getdumpc</tt> talks to a
+<a href="s6-fdholderd.html">fd-holding daemon</a> on its open
+descriptors 6 and 7, and retrieves its whole state,
+then executes a program with as many more file descriptors open
+as were given by the daemon, plus a modified environment to
+describe the retrieved state.
+</p>
+
+<h2> Interface </h2>
+
+<pre>
+ s6-fdholder-retrievec [ -t <em>timeout</em> ] <em>prog...</em>
+</pre>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> s6-fdholder-retrievec expects to talk to a listening
+<a href="s6-fdholderd.html">s6-fdholderd</a> program on its descriptors 6 and 7. </li>
+ <li> It retrieves a copy of the whole set of file descriptors
+stored in that daemon, including their identifiers and expiration dates. </li>
+ <li> It then executes into <em>prog...</em> with the additional descriptors
+and environment. </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2> Options </h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> <tt>-t&nbsp;<em>timeout</em></tt>&nbsp;: if the operation cannot be
+processed in <em>timeout</em> milliseconds, then fail with an error message.
+Communications with the server should be near-instant, so this option is
+only here to protect users against programming errors. </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2> Environment format </h2>
+
+<p>
+ <em>prog...</em> is executed with the following environment variables
+set:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> <tt>S6_FD#</tt>&nbsp;: contains the number <em>n</em> of file
+descriptors retrieved from the server. </li>
+ <li> Then, for every <em>i</em> between 0 and <em>n</em>-1 inclusive:
+ <ul>
+ <li> <tt>S6_FD_<em>i</em></tt>&nbsp;: contains the number of the <em>i</em>th
+open file descriptor. </li>
+ <li> <tt>S6_FDID_<em>i</em></tt>&nbsp;: contains the identifier of the
+<em>i</em>th open file descriptor. </li>
+ <li> <tt>S6_FDLIMIT_<em>i</em></tt>&nbsp;: contains the expiration date of
+the <em>i</em>th open file descriptor, if applicable. That date is stored in
+<a href="http://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html#tai64n">external TAI64N
+format</a>. </li>
+If the file descriptor is not supposed to expire, that environment variable
+is not defined. </li>
+ </ul> </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2> Notes </h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> s6-fdholder-getdumpc is the "internal" version of
+<a href="s6-fdholder-getdump.html">s6-fdholder-getdump</a>. It simply
+expects to be run as a UCSPI client, i.e. talking to the server
+over descriptors 6 and 7, instead of connecting to the server
+itself. </li>
+ <li> The error messages for the s6-fdholder suite are explained
+<a href="s6-fdholder-errorcodes.html">here</a>. </li>
+</ul>
+
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