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1 /*	$NetBSD: listener.h,v 1.1.1.4 2021/04/07 02:43:14 christos Exp $	*/
2 /*
3  * Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
4  * Copyright (c) 2007-2012 Niels Provos and Nick Mathewson
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28 #ifndef EVENT2_LISTENER_H_INCLUDED_
29 #define EVENT2_LISTENER_H_INCLUDED_
30 
31 #include <event2/visibility.h>
32 
33 #ifdef __cplusplus
34 extern "C" {
35 #endif
36 
37 #include <event2/event.h>
38 
39 struct sockaddr;
40 struct evconnlistener;
41 
42 /**
43    A callback that we invoke when a listener has a new connection.
44 
45    @param listener The evconnlistener
46    @param fd The new file descriptor
47    @param addr The source address of the connection
48    @param socklen The length of addr
49    @param user_arg the pointer passed to evconnlistener_new()
50  */
51 typedef void (*evconnlistener_cb)(struct evconnlistener *, evutil_socket_t, struct sockaddr *, int socklen, void *);
52 
53 /**
54    A callback that we invoke when a listener encounters a non-retriable error.
55 
56    @param listener The evconnlistener
57    @param user_arg the pointer passed to evconnlistener_new()
58  */
59 typedef void (*evconnlistener_errorcb)(struct evconnlistener *, void *);
60 
61 /** Flag: Indicates that we should not make incoming sockets nonblocking
62  * before passing them to the callback. */
63 #define LEV_OPT_LEAVE_SOCKETS_BLOCKING	(1u<<0)
64 /** Flag: Indicates that freeing the listener should close the underlying
65  * socket. */
66 #define LEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_FREE		(1u<<1)
67 /** Flag: Indicates that we should set the close-on-exec flag, if possible */
68 #define LEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_EXEC		(1u<<2)
69 /** Flag: Indicates that we should disable the timeout (if any) between when
70  * this socket is closed and when we can listen again on the same port. */
71 #define LEV_OPT_REUSEABLE		(1u<<3)
72 /** Flag: Indicates that the listener should be locked so it's safe to use
73  * from multiple threadcs at once. */
74 #define LEV_OPT_THREADSAFE		(1u<<4)
75 /** Flag: Indicates that the listener should be created in disabled
76  * state. Use evconnlistener_enable() to enable it later. */
77 #define LEV_OPT_DISABLED		(1u<<5)
78 /** Flag: Indicates that the listener should defer accept() until data is
79  * available, if possible.  Ignored on platforms that do not support this.
80  *
81  * This option can help performance for protocols where the client transmits
82  * immediately after connecting.  Do not use this option if your protocol
83  * _doesn't_ start out with the client transmitting data, since in that case
84  * this option will sometimes cause the kernel to never tell you about the
85  * connection.
86  *
87  * This option is only supported by evconnlistener_new_bind(): it can't
88  * work with evconnlistener_new_fd(), since the listener needs to be told
89  * to use the option before it is actually bound.
90  */
91 #define LEV_OPT_DEFERRED_ACCEPT		(1u<<6)
92 /** Flag: Indicates that we ask to allow multiple servers (processes or
93  * threads) to bind to the same port if they each set the option.
94  *
95  * SO_REUSEPORT is what most people would expect SO_REUSEADDR to be, however
96  * SO_REUSEPORT does not imply SO_REUSEADDR.
97  *
98  * This is only available on Linux and kernel 3.9+
99  */
100 #define LEV_OPT_REUSEABLE_PORT		(1u<<7)
101 /** Flag: Indicates that the listener wants to work only in IPv6 socket.
102  *
103  * According to RFC3493 and most Linux distributions, default value is to
104  * work in IPv4-mapped mode. If there is a requirement to bind same port
105  * on same ip addresses but different handlers for both IPv4 and IPv6,
106  * it is required to set IPV6_V6ONLY socket option to be sure that the
107  * code works as expected without affected by bindv6only sysctl setting in
108  * system.
109  *
110  * This socket option also supported by Windows.
111  */
112 #define LEV_OPT_BIND_IPV6ONLY		(1u<<8)
113 
114 /**
115    Allocate a new evconnlistener object to listen for incoming TCP connections
116    on a given file descriptor.
117 
118    @param base The event base to associate the listener with.
119    @param cb A callback to be invoked when a new connection arrives.  If the
120       callback is NULL, the listener will be treated as disabled until the
121       callback is set.
122    @param ptr A user-supplied pointer to give to the callback.
123    @param flags Any number of LEV_OPT_* flags
124    @param backlog Passed to the listen() call to determine the length of the
125       acceptable connection backlog.  Set to -1 for a reasonable default.
126       Set to 0 if the socket is already listening.
127    @param fd The file descriptor to listen on.  It must be a nonblocking
128       file descriptor, and it should already be bound to an appropriate
129       port and address.
130 */
131 EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
132 struct evconnlistener *evconnlistener_new(struct event_base *base,
133     evconnlistener_cb cb, void *ptr, unsigned flags, int backlog,
134     evutil_socket_t fd);
135 /**
136    Allocate a new evconnlistener object to listen for incoming TCP connections
137    on a given address.
138 
139    @param base The event base to associate the listener with.
140    @param cb A callback to be invoked when a new connection arrives. If the
141       callback is NULL, the listener will be treated as disabled until the
142       callback is set.
143    @param ptr A user-supplied pointer to give to the callback.
144    @param flags Any number of LEV_OPT_* flags
145    @param backlog Passed to the listen() call to determine the length of the
146       acceptable connection backlog.  Set to -1 for a reasonable default.
147    @param addr The address to listen for connections on.
148    @param socklen The length of the address.
149  */
150 EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
151 struct evconnlistener *evconnlistener_new_bind(struct event_base *base,
152     evconnlistener_cb cb, void *ptr, unsigned flags, int backlog,
153     const struct sockaddr *sa, int socklen);
154 /**
155    Disable and deallocate an evconnlistener.
156  */
157 EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
158 void evconnlistener_free(struct evconnlistener *lev);
159 /**
160    Re-enable an evconnlistener that has been disabled.
161  */
162 EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
163 int evconnlistener_enable(struct evconnlistener *lev);
164 /**
165    Stop listening for connections on an evconnlistener.
166  */
167 EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
168 int evconnlistener_disable(struct evconnlistener *lev);
169 
170 /** Return an evconnlistener's associated event_base. */
171 EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
172 struct event_base *evconnlistener_get_base(struct evconnlistener *lev);
173 
174 /** Return the socket that an evconnlistner is listening on. */
175 EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
176 evutil_socket_t evconnlistener_get_fd(struct evconnlistener *lev);
177 
178 /** Change the callback on the listener to cb and its user_data to arg.
179  */
180 EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
181 void evconnlistener_set_cb(struct evconnlistener *lev,
182     evconnlistener_cb cb, void *arg);
183 
184 /** Set an evconnlistener's error callback. */
185 EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
186 void evconnlistener_set_error_cb(struct evconnlistener *lev,
187     evconnlistener_errorcb errorcb);
188 
189 #ifdef __cplusplus
190 }
191 #endif
192 
193 #endif
194