// Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #ifndef BASE_POSIX_UNIX_DOMAIN_SOCKET_LINUX_H_ #define BASE_POSIX_UNIX_DOMAIN_SOCKET_LINUX_H_ #include #include #include #include "base/base_export.h" class Pickle; class BASE_EXPORT UnixDomainSocket { public: // Maximum number of file descriptors that can be read by RecvMsg(). static const size_t kMaxFileDescriptors; // Use sendmsg to write the given msg and include a vector of file // descriptors. Returns true if successful. static bool SendMsg(int fd, const void* msg, size_t length, const std::vector& fds); // Use recvmsg to read a message and an array of file descriptors. Returns // -1 on failure. Note: will read, at most, |kMaxFileDescriptors| descriptors. static ssize_t RecvMsg(int fd, void* msg, size_t length, std::vector* fds); // Perform a sendmsg/recvmsg pair. // 1. This process creates a UNIX SEQPACKET socketpair. Using // connection-oriented sockets (SEQPACKET or STREAM) is critical here, // because if one of the ends closes the other one must be notified. // 2. This process writes a request to |fd| with an SCM_RIGHTS control // message containing on end of the fresh socket pair. // 3. This process blocks reading from the other end of the fresh // socketpair. // 4. The target process receives the request, processes it and writes the // reply to the end of the socketpair contained in the request. // 5. This process wakes up and continues. // // fd: descriptor to send the request on // reply: buffer for the reply // reply_len: size of |reply| // result_fd: (may be NULL) the file descriptor returned in the reply // (if any) // request: the bytes to send in the request static ssize_t SendRecvMsg(int fd, uint8_t* reply, unsigned reply_len, int* result_fd, const Pickle& request); }; #endif // BASE_POSIX_UNIX_DOMAIN_SOCKET_LINUX_H_