Globus Common API

Common Data Structures and Functions. More...

Modules
	Globus Callback
	Globus Callback Function Interface.
	Globus Error API
	FIFO Queue
	FIFO Queue Implementation.
	Handle Table for Reference Counting Data
	Hash Table
	Linked List
	Memory Pool
	Module Activation Management
	Priority Queue
	Threading
	Portable Thread Abstraction.
	Thread Pooling
	URL String Parser
	Globus UUID Generator
	UUIDs.
Defines
#define	GLOBUS_COMMON_MODULE   (&globus_i_common_module)
	Globus Common Module Descriptor.
#define	GLOBUS_TILDE_EXPAND
	Expand ~.
#define	GLOBUS_TILDE_USER_EXPAND
	Expand ~user.
#define	GLOBUS_TRUE   1
	True value for globus_bool_t.
#define	GLOBUS_FALSE   0
	False value for globus_bool_t.
#define	GLOBUS_SUCCESS   0
	Generic success result Most Globus API functions return this value to indicate success, or some error constant or globus_result_t to indicate an error.
#define	GLOBUS_FAILURE   -1
	Generic failure result Some Globus API functions without good error handling return this value to indicate some undetermined error occurred.
Typedefs
typedef size_t	globus_size_t
	Standard size of memory object The globus_size_t is the size of a memory object. It is identical to size_t in all cases and doesn't need to be used ever.
typedef socklen_t	globus_socklen_t
	Size of a socket length parameter.
typedef unsigned char	globus_byte_t
	Unsigned byte datatype This is used for byte-addressable arrays of arbitrary data which is not subject to sign extension.
typedef int	globus_bool_t
	Boolean type.
typedef uint32_t	globus_result_t
Functions
globus_result_t	globus_eval_path (const char *pathstring, char **bufp)
int	globus_tilde_expand (unsigned long options, globus_bool_t url_form, char *inpath, char **outpath)
	Expand ~ and/or ~user in path strings.

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Detailed Description

Common Data Structures and Functions.

Container Data Types

• Linked List
• FIFO Queue
• Handle Table for Reference Counting Data
• Hash Table
• Priority Queue

Common Runtime Components

• Threading
• Globus Callback
• Memory Pool
• Module Activation Management

Error Handling

• Globus Error API

Miscellaneous Utilities

• Globus UUID Generator
• URL String Parser

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Typedef Documentation

typedef int globus_bool_t

Boolean type.

Set values to either the constant GLOBUS_TRUE and GLOBUS_FALSE

typedef uint32_t globus_result_t

Weak pointer to a Globus Error object, or the special value GLOBUS_SUCCESS

typedef socklen_t globus_socklen_t

Size of a socket length parameter.

The globus_socklen_t type is part of the POSIX socket interface and is also available in winsock2.h. In older UNIX implementations, this was variously a size_t or an int.

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Function Documentation

globus_result_t globus_eval_path	(	const char *	pathstring,
		char **	bufp
	)

Parameters:

	pathstring	A string containing any number of variable path references using the syntax ${PATH-NAME} Supported path elements are prefix exec_prefix sbindir bindir libdir libexecdir includedir datarootdir datadir mandir sysconfdir sharedstatedir localstatedir perlmoduledir These strings are based on the parameters passed to this package configure script, but modified so that if GLOBUS_LOCATION is set in the environment, it is used instead of the configured path.
	bufp	Pointer to be set to a newly allocated string that has recursively resolved all substitution paths.

int globus_tilde_expand	(	unsigned long	options,
		globus_bool_t	url_form,
		char *	inpath,
		char **	outpath
	)

Expand ~ and/or ~user in path strings.

Expand the leading ~ (or ~user) characters from inpath to the home directory path of the current user (or user specified in ~user); the result is stored in a newly allocated buffer *outpath (which will need to be freed by a call to globus_free.) The string following the ~/or ~user/ is copied verbatim to the output string.

Parameters:

	options	The expansion is conditioned by the options as defined in globus_tilde_expand.h: GLOBUS_TILDE_EXPAND: expand ~ GLOBUS_TILDE_USER_EXPAND: expand ~user Otherwise, the corresponding form is not expanded (just copied int the output path)
	url_form	True if the inpath follows an URL format (/~) Used when expanding an url (for : <scheme>://host[:port][/path] were /path can be of the form /~[user][/...]. Otherwise, the form ~[user][/...] is expected.
	inpath	Input string to expand.
	outpath	Output string; Need to be freed when not used anymore.

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