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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-getdump</tt> program </h1>
+
+<p>
+<tt>s6-fdholder-getdump</tt> connects to a
+<a href="s6-fdholderd.html">fd-holding daemon</a> listening on a
+Unix domain socket, and retrieves its entire state: file descriptors with
+their identifiers and expiration dates. It then executes a program with
+those file descriptors still open, and the state stored in the
+environment.
+</p>
+
+<h2> Interface </h2>
+
+<pre>
+     s6-fdholder-getdump [ -t <em>timeout</em> ] <em>path</em> <em>prog...</em>
+</pre>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> s6-fdholder-getdump executes into <tt><a href="s6-ipcclient.html">s6-ipcclient</a> <em>path</em>
+<a href="s6-fdholder-getdumpc.html">s6-fdholder-getdumpc</a> <em>prog...</em></tt>.
+It does nothing else: it is just a convenience program.
+The <a href="s6-ipcclient.html">s6-ipcclient</a> program connects
+to a Unix socket at <em>path</em>, and the
+<a href="s6-fdholder-getdumpc.html">s6-fdholder-getdumpc</a> program
+gets the server's state over the socket. </li>
+ <li> It executes into <em>prog...</em> with as many more open
+file descriptors as there were in the daemon, and information about those
+file descriptors in the 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 (connecting to the
+wrong socket, for instance). </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2> Usage example </h2>
+
+<pre>
+   s6-fdholder-getdump /service/fdholderd/s s6-fdholder-setdump /service/fdholderd-2/s
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+will get the state of the s6-fdholderd daemon listening on the <tt>/service/fdholderd/s</tt>
+socket, and transmit it to the other s6-fdholderd daemon listening on the
+<tt>/service/fdholderd-2/s</tt> socket. Note that in this precise case,
+the <a href="s6-fdholder-transferdump.html">s6-fdholder-transferdump</a>
+program does the same thing more efficiently.
+</p>
+
+<h2> Notes </h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> s6-fdholder-getdump really executes into <tt>s6-ipcclient
+s6-fdholder-getdumpc
+<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/execline/fdclose.html">fdclose</a>
+6 fdclose 7 <em>prog...</em></tt>, so that <em>prog...</em> does not
+have a connection with the fd-holding daemon anymore. If you want to
+keep the server connection open for <em>prog...</em>, use
+<tt>s6-ipcclient s6-fdholder-getdumpc</tt> manually. </li>
+ <li> The exact format of the environment given to <em>prog...</em>
+is described in the 
+<a href="s6-fdholder-getdumpc.html">s6-fdholder-getdumpc</a> page. </li>
+ <li> Getting the whole state of a s6-fdholderd daemon requires specific
+privileges. Make sure you properly
+<a href="s6-fdholderd.html#configuration">configure the s6-fdholderd
+access rights</a> so your client can perform that operation. </li>
+</ul>
+
+</body>
+</html>