socket.h

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#ifndef _GPXE_SOCKET_H
#define _GPXE_SOCKET_H

/** @file
 *
 * Socket addresses
 *
 */

FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER );

#include <stdint.h>

/**
 * @defgroup commtypes Communication semantics
 *
 * @{
 */

/** Connection-based, reliable streams */
extern int tcp_sock_stream;
#define TCP_SOCK_STREAM 0x1
#define SOCK_STREAM tcp_sock_stream

/** Connectionless, unreliable streams */
extern int udp_sock_dgram;
#define UDP_SOCK_DGRAM 0x2
#define SOCK_DGRAM udp_sock_dgram

/** @} */

/**
 * Name communication semantics
 *
 * @v semantics         Communication semantics (e.g. SOCK_STREAM)
 * @ret name            Name of communication semantics
 */
static inline __attribute__ (( always_inline )) const char *
socket_semantics_name ( int semantics ) {
        /* Cannot use a switch() because of the {TCP_UDP}_SOCK_XXX hack */
        if ( semantics == SOCK_STREAM ) {
                return "SOCK_STREAM";
        } else if ( semantics == SOCK_DGRAM ) {
                return "SOCK_DGRAM";
        } else {
                return "SOCK_UNKNOWN";
        }
}

/**
 * @defgroup addrfam Address families
 *
 * @{
 */
#define AF_INET         1       /**< IPv4 Internet addresses */
#define AF_INET6        2       /**< IPv6 Internet addresses */
/** @} */

/**
 * Name address family
 *
 * @v family            Address family (e.g. AF_INET)
 * @ret name            Name of address family
 */
static inline __attribute__ (( always_inline )) const char *
socket_family_name ( int family ) {
        switch ( family ) {
        case AF_INET:           return "AF_INET";
        case AF_INET6:          return "AF_INET6";
        default:                return "AF_UNKNOWN";
        }
}

/** A socket address family */
typedef uint16_t sa_family_t;

/** Length of a @c struct @c sockaddr */
#define SA_LEN 32

/**
 * Generalized socket address structure
 *
 * This contains the fields common to socket addresses for all address
 * families.
 */
struct sockaddr {
        /** Socket address family
         *
         * This is an AF_XXX constant.
         */
        sa_family_t sa_family;
        /** Padding
         *
         * This ensures that a struct @c sockaddr_tcpip is large
         * enough to hold a socket address for any TCP/IP address
         * family.
         */
        char pad[ SA_LEN - sizeof ( sa_family_t ) ];
} __attribute__ (( may_alias ));

#endif /* _GPXE_SOCKET_H */