purgatory

1Introduction

This library aims to be an implementation of the 9p file protocol as described in:

https://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/5/intro

2Status

The library is under development,most of the protocol has been implemented except for Twstat (https://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/5/stat); bugs, of course, exists, API may changes.

3Prerequisites:

• alexandria
• cl-ppcre
• usocket
• babel
• uiop

To run the tests also

• cl+ssl
• clunit2

needs to be installed (via quicklisp).

Of course a 9p server is needed.

4Installation:

The best way to get purgatory working is using the excellent quicklisp

  (ql:quickload "9p-client")

5Usage

A typical usage of the library should starts with a code similar to the one below:

    (let ((*messages-sent* '())
          (*fid*             1)
          (*tag*             8)
          (root-fid        (mount stream root)))
      ...)

Note that `stream` should be a stream of (unsigned-byte 8) and likely is created by a client socket. The file ./tests/all-tests.lisp contains a small macro with-open-ssl-stream that will help creating a TLS stream using usocket.

The file ./tests/protocol-tests.lisp contains a lot of examples about the usage of the library.

There are quite a few high level functions to use the filesystem that are listed below:

mount

Initialize the connection to the server using `root-path' as the

root of the remote filesystem

read-all-pending-messages-ignoring-errors

Read all the messages from the server and ignore any error

clone-fid

Make a new fid that points to the same resource pointed by `fid'

create-directory

Create a new directory with name `directory-name' under the

directory pointed by `parent-fid'. The parameter `permissions' mustbe provided in octal (default: #o760))

• path-exists-p
• create-path :: Create a file or directory as specified by `path'.

To create a directory specify a path terminating with a '/'. Parentdirectories are created if do not exist. The parameter `permissions'must be provided in octal (default: #o640))

Returns the fid to the last element of `path'

If the last element of `path' is a directory the directory is created with permissions: #o760.

It `path' already reference a valid file it is opened for read and write.

Finally if already reference a valid directory is opened for read only.

open-path

Open a full, existing, path relative to `root-fid'. `Mode' must be

one of +create-for-read+ +create-for-write+~+create-for-read-write+"~

slurp-file

Read in a vector of (unsigned byte 8) the full content of

'path' relative to `root-fid'

remove-path

Remove the last element of 'path' relative to `root-fid'.If `path' does not exists this function does nothing.

open-directory

Open the directory pointed to `path' relative to `root-fid'.

Returns the fid of the directory pointed by `path'.

This fid can be used by `read-directory` to get the directory entries (see the struct `stat')

read-directory

Read the next entry of a directory specified by `dir-fid'.

`Dir-fid' is usually the values returned by `open-directory`.

This function on success returns tree values:

• dir-fid to read the next entry or to check if there are no more

entries (see below);

• the stat struct for the current entry;
• an offset to the next entry.

Each call to this function on the same directory fid, except the first, must use the offset returned by the last call, for example

   (let* ((dir-fid (open-directory stream root-fid path)))
     (multiple-value-bind (next-dir-fid stat stat-size)
         (read-directory stream dir-fid)   ; offset 0 on the first call
       (multiple-value-bind (next-dir-fid-2 stat-2 next-stat-size-2)
           (read-directory stream dir-fid stat-size) ; offset equals
                                                     ; to  stat-size
                                                     ; from previous
                                                     ; call
         ...)))

When this function returns nil there no more entries for this directory (see the code of directory children).

sort-dir-stats

Sort a list of stat struct `data' (by default sorting entry names

in lexicographic ascending order

collect-directory-children

Traverse the file system tree starting at`starting-directory' returning a list of strings representing the paths ofall files under `starting-directory'.

collect-tree

Traverse the file system tree starting at `starting-directory'returning two values

• a list of strings representing the paths of all the filesunder `starting-directory';
• a list of all the path to the sub-directories under `starting-directory'.

The lists are ordered in topological order (depth first strategy).

copy-file

Copy a file pointed by path-from to a file pointed by path-to.progress-fn, if defined, must be a function with a singleparameter: the number of octects wrote in a single call of theTwrite command.

Note: the destination file is overwritten if does exists."

Also checking the protocol documentation is useful https://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/5/intro

6BUGS

Please send bug reports or patches to the issue tracker.

7License

This library is released under Lisp Lesser General Public license (seeCOPYING.LESSER file)

8NO WARRANTY

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

9Acknowledgment

My deep thanks to op for the support and redfog for the name of the library, Thank you!