Allocate size bytes of memory from the heap using a best-fit algorithm.
void free "void *ptr"
Free the allocated object at ptr.
void setheap "void *start" "void *limit"
Initialise the heap. This function must be called before calling alloc for the first time. The region between start and limit will be used for the heap; attempting to allocate beyond this will result in a panic.
"char *" sbrk "int junk"
Provides the behaviour of sbrk 0, i.e., returns the highest point that the heap has reached. This value can be used during testing to determine the actual heap usage. The junk argument is ignored.
Creates a new or sets an existing environment variable called name. If creating a new variable, the sethook and unsethook arguments may be specified.
The set hook is invoked whenever an attempt is made to set the variable, unless the EV_NOHOOK flag is set. Typically a set hook will validate the value argument, and then call env_setenv again with EV_NOHOOK set to actually save the value. The predefined function env_noset may be specified to refuse all attempts to set a variable.
The unset hook is invoked when an attempt is made to unset a variable. If it returns zero, the variable will be unset. The predefined function env_nounset may be used to prevent a variable being unset.
Read characters from the console into buf. All of the standard cautions apply to this function.
void ngets "char *buf" "size_t size"
Read at most size - 1 characters from the console into buf. If size is less than 1, the function’s behaviour is as for gets.
int fgetstr "char *buf" "int size" "int fd"
Read a line of at most size characters into buf. Line terminating characters are stripped, and the buffer is always NUL terminated. Returns the number of characters in buf if successful, or -1 if a read error occurs.
The *printf functions implement a subset of the standard printf family functionality and some extensions. The following standard conversions are supported: c,d,n,o,p,s,u,x. The following modifiers are supported: +,-,#,*,0,field width,precision,l.
The b conversion is provided to decode error registers. Its usage is:
printf(
"reg=%b\n",
regval,
"<base><arg>*"
);
where <base> is the output expressed as a control character, e.g. \10 gives octal, \20 gives hex. Each <arg> is a sequence of characters, the first of which gives the bit number to be inspected (origin 1) and the next characters (up to a character less than 32) give the text to be displayed if the bit is set. Thus
printf(
"reg=%b\n",
3,
"\10\2BITTWO\1BITONE\n"
);
would give the output
reg=3<BITTWO,BITONE>
The D conversion provides a hexdump facility, e.g.
Similar to the behaviour as specified in open(2), except that file creation is not supported, so the mode parameter is not required. The flags argument may be one of O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY and O_RDWR (although no file systems currently support writing).
int close "int fd"
void closeall void
Close all open files.
ssize_t read "int fd" "void *buf" "size_t len"
ssize_t write "int fd" "void *buf" "size_t len"
(No file systems currently support writing.)
off_t lseek "int fd" "off_t offset" "int whence"
Files being automatically uncompressed during reading cannot seek backwards from the current point.
int stat "const char *path" "struct stat *sb"
int fstat "int fd" "struct stat *sb"
The stat and fstat functions only fill out the following fields in the sb structure: st_mode,st_nlink,st_uid,st_gid,st_size. The tftp file system cannot provide meaningful values for this call, and the cd9660 file system always reports files having uid/gid of zero.
Initialises the pager and tells it that the next line output will be the top of the display. The environment variable LINES is consulted to determine the number of lines to be displayed before pausing.
void pager_close void
Closes the pager.
int pager_output "char *lines"
Sends the lines in the NUL -terminated buffer at lines to the pager. Newline characters are counted in order to determine the number of lines being output (wrapped lines are not accounted for). The pager_output function will return zero when all of the lines have been output, or nonzero if the display was paused and the user elected to quit.
int pager_file "char *fname"
Attempts to open and display the file fname. Returns -1 on error, 0 at EOF, or 1 if the user elects to quit while reading.
Return a character from the console, used by gets, ngets and pager functions.
int ischar void
Returns nonzero if a character is waiting from the console.
void putchar int
Write a character to the console, used by gets, ngets, *printf, panic and twiddle and thus by many other functions for debugging and informational output.
int devopen "struct open_file *of" "const char *name" "char **file"
Open the appropriate device for the file named in name, returning in file a pointer to the remaining body of name which does not refer to the device. The f_dev field in of will be set to point to the .Vt devsw structure for the opened device if successful. Device identifiers must always precede the path component, but may otherwise be arbitrarily formatted. Used by open and thus for all device-related I/O.
int devclose "struct open_file *of"
Close the device allocated for of. The device driver itself will already have been called for the close; this call should clean up any allocation made by devopen only.
void panic "const char *msg" "..."
Signal a fatal and unrecoverable error condition. The msg ... arguments are as for printf.
Stacked file system supporting gzipped files. When trying the gzipfs file system, libstand appends .gz to the end of the filename, and then tries to locate the file using the other file systems. Placement of this file system in the file_system[] array determines whether gzipped files will be opened in preference to non-gzipped files. It is only possible to seek a gzipped file forwards, and stat and fstat on gzipped files will report an invalid length.
bzipfs_fsops
The same as gzipfs_fsops, but for bzip2 1 -compressed files.
The array of .Vt struct fs_ops pointers should be terminated with a NULL.
