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Joachim Wiberg b55dada80b libink: a message bus is not a peer
libink was written against the only bus it had, its own, where the
peer on the other end is the client.  A broker is not: it routes for
senders it names itself, expects a DESTINATION on anything addressed
through it, and answers on its own schedule rather than next.

Runlevels go on the wire as S and N rather than the digits Finit
keeps internally, since that is what a caller outside Finit means by
one.

The library stays a convenience library, linked into finit and
initctl and installed nowhere: the ABI promise waits until libink is
its own project.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
2026-08-13 09:28:26 +02:00

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/* libink — D-Bus wire protocol: message header parsing and building.
*
* Copyright (c) 2026 Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
*/
#ifndef LIBINK_PROTO_H_
#define LIBINK_PROTO_H_
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include "link.h" /* LINK_MSG_* type codes */
/* Message flags. */
#define LINK_FLAG_NO_REPLY_EXPECTED 0x01
#define LINK_FLAG_NO_AUTO_START 0x02
#define LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION 0x04
/* Header field codes. */
#define LINK_HDR_PATH 1
#define LINK_HDR_INTERFACE 2
#define LINK_HDR_MEMBER 3
#define LINK_HDR_ERROR_NAME 4
#define LINK_HDR_REPLY_SERIAL 5
#define LINK_HDR_DESTINATION 6
#define LINK_HDR_SENDER 7
#define LINK_HDR_SIGNATURE 8
#define LINK_HDR_UNIX_FDS 9
#define LINK_PROTOCOL_VERSION 1
/* Parsed view of an incoming message. Pointers reference bytes
* inside the receiver's own rx buffer; treat as borrowed and short-
* lived (until the next read of the same connection). */
struct link_msg {
uint8_t type;
uint8_t flags;
uint8_t endian; /* 'l' or 'B' */
uint32_t body_len;
uint32_t serial;
uint32_t reply_serial;
const char *path; /* object path, or NULL */
const char *interface; /* may be NULL on method calls */
const char *member;
const char *error_name;
const char *destination;
const char *sender;
const char *signature; /* may be NULL if body is empty */
/* Pointer into the rx buffer and length, after header padding. */
const uint8_t *body;
uint32_t body_avail;
};
/* Parse a complete D-Bus message from `buf` of size `len`. On
* success returns the total number of bytes consumed (header +
* padding + body) and fills *out. Returns 0 if more bytes are
* needed, -1 on malformed input. */
ssize_t __msg_parse(const uint8_t *buf, size_t len, struct link_msg *out);
/* Compute the on-wire size of a future message header given the
* fields we'd populate. Used to size send buffers. */
size_t __msg_header_size(const struct link_msg *m);
/* Build a method-return header into `buf` (capacity `cap`).
* `reply_serial`/`destination` come from the call being replied to.
* `signature` is the body signature ("" if no args). `body_len`
* is the length of the body that will follow the header padding.
* Returns the number of bytes written, or -1 on overflow. */
ssize_t __msg_build_return(uint8_t *buf, size_t cap,
uint32_t serial, uint32_t reply_serial,
const char *destination,
const char *signature, uint32_t body_len);
/* Build an error reply header. */
ssize_t __msg_build_error(uint8_t *buf, size_t cap,
uint32_t serial, uint32_t reply_serial,
const char *destination,
const char *error_name,
const char *signature, uint32_t body_len);
/* Build a signal header (no reply expected, no destination). */
ssize_t __msg_build_signal(uint8_t *buf, size_t cap,
uint32_t serial,
const char *path,
const char *interface,
const char *member,
const char *signature, uint32_t body_len);
/* Build a method-call header (client side). `destination` is NULL
* when no broker routes the message. */
ssize_t __msg_build_method_call(uint8_t *buf, size_t cap,
uint32_t serial,
const char *path,
const char *interface,
const char *member,
const char *destination,
const char *signature,
uint32_t body_len);
#endif /* LIBINK_PROTO_H_ */