Cytoplasm/src/include/Util.h

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#ifndef CYTOPLASM_UTIL_H
#define CYTOPLASM_UTIL_H

/***
 * @Nm Util
 * @Nd Some misc. helper functions that don't need their own headers.
 * @Dd February 15 2023
 * 
 * This header holds a number of random functions related to strings,
 * time, the filesystem, and other simple tasks that don't require a
 * full separate API. For the most part, the functions here are
 * entirely standalone, depending only on POSIX functions, however
 * there are a few that depend explicitly on a few other APIs. Those
 * are noted.
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

#include <Stream.h>

/**
 * Get the current timestamp in milliseconds since the Unix epoch. This
 * uses
 * .Xr gettimeofday 2 
 * and time_t, and converts it to a single number, which is then
 * returned to the caller.
 * .Pp
 * A note on the 2038 problem: as long as sizeof(long) >= 8, that is,
 * as long as the long data type is 64 bits or more, then everything
 * should be fine. On most, if not, all, 64-bit systems, long is 64
 * bits. I would expect Cytoplasm to break for 32 bit systems
 * eventually, but we should have a ways to go before that happens.
 * I didn't want to try to hack together some system to store larger
 * numbers than the architecture supports. But we can always
 * re-evaluate over the next few years.
 */
extern unsigned long UtilServerTs(void);

/**
 * Use
 * .Xr stat 2
 * to get the last modified time of the given file, or zero if there
 * was an error getting the last modified time of a file. This is
 * primarily useful for caching file data.
 */
extern unsigned long UtilLastModified(char *);

/**
 * This function behaves just like the system call
 * .Xr mkdir 2 ,
 * but it creates any intermediate directories as necessary, unlike
 * .Xr mkdir 2 .
 */
extern int UtilMkdir(const char *, const mode_t);

/**
 * Sleep the calling thread for the given number of milliseconds.
 * POSIX does not have a very friendly way to sleep, so this wraps
 * .Xr nanosleep 2
 * to make its usage much, much simpler.
 */
extern int UtilSleepMillis(long);

/**
 * This function works identically to the POSIX
 * .Xr getdelim 3 ,
 * except that it assumes pointers were allocated with the Memory API
 * and it reads from a Stream instead of a file pointer.
 */
extern ssize_t UtilGetDelim(char **, size_t *, int, Stream *);

/**
 * This function is just a special case of 
 * .Fn UtilGetDelim
 * that sets the delimiter to the newline character.
 */
extern ssize_t UtilGetLine(char **, size_t *, Stream *);

/**
 * Get a unique number associated with the current thread.
 * Numbers are assigned in the order that threads call this
 * function, but are guaranteed to be unique in identifying
 * the thread in a more human-readable way than just casting
 * the return value of
 * .Fn pthread_self
 * to a number.
 */
extern unsigned long UtilThreadNo(void);

#endif                             /* CYTOPLASM_UTIL_H */