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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2015-01-26 22:26:57 +0000
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+    <title>s6: the s6-fdholder-store program</title>
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+<p>
+<a href="index.html">s6</a><br />
+<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br />
+<a href="http://skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a>
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+
+<h1> The <tt>s6-fdholder-store</tt> program </h1>
+
+<p>
+<tt>s6-fdholder-store</tt> connects to a
+<a href="s6-fdholderd.html">fd-holding daemon</a> listening on a
+Unix domain socket, and gives it a copy of one of its open file
+descriptors for the daemon to hold.
+</p>
+
+<h2> Interface </h2>
+
+<pre>
+     s6-fdholder-store [ -d <em>fd</em> ] [ -T fdtimeout ] [ -t <em>timeout</em> ] <em>path</em> <em>id</em>
+</pre>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> s6-fdholder-store executes into <tt><a href="s6-ipcclient.html">s6-ipcclient</a> <em>path</em>
+<a href="s6-fdholder-storec.html">s6-fdholder-storec</a> <em>id</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-storec.html">s6-fdholder-storec</a> program transmits the desired
+file descriptor over the socket. </li>
+ <li> It should be used to connect to a
+<a href="s6-fdholderd.html">s6-fdholderd</a> daemon, which will store the
+file descriptor given by the user. </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2> Options </h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> <tt>-d&nbsp;<em>fd</em></tt>&nbsp;: store descriptor number <em>fd</em>.
+By default, <em>fd</em> is 0 (i.e. the program's stdin will be stored).
+s6-fdholder-store replaces its stdin with <em>fd</em> before executing into
+<tt>s6-ipcclient <a href="s6-fdholder-storec.html">s6-fdholder-storec</a></tt>. </li>
+ <li> <tt>-T&nbsp;<em>fdtimeout</em></tt>&nbsp;: the descriptor is stored with
+an expiration time of <em>fdtimeout</em> milliseconds, which means the
+<a href="s6-fdholderd.html">s6-fdholderd</a> daemon will close and get rid of
+the descriptor after that time. By default, <em>fdtimeout</em> is 0, which
+means infinite - no expiration time. </li>
+<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>
+   <a href="s6-ipcserver-socketbinder.html">s6-ipcserver-socketbinder</a> /tmp/mysocket s6-fdholder-store /service/fdholderd/s MYSOCKET
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ will open a Unix domain socket, bind it to <tt>/tmp/mysocket</tt> and
+listen to incoming connections, then give it to a
+<a href="s6-fdholderd.html">s6-fdholderd</a> instance listening on
+<tt>/service/fdholderd/s</tt>, with no expiration date, with the
+"MYSOCKET" identifier. Another program will be able to retrieve the
+socket later, using <a href="s6-fdholder-retrieve.html">s6-fdholder-retrieve</a>.
+</p>
+
+</body>
+</html>