X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/mLib/blobdiff_plain/b6b9d458c78364bdbbd7fbd7ec543bc364014b45..24017b42acbfca3af7a68f5edd286138fc9a09c9:/man/selbuf.3 diff --git a/man/selbuf.3 b/man/selbuf.3 index 386a718..bedae52 100644 --- a/man/selbuf.3 +++ b/man/selbuf.3 @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ .\" -*-nroff-*- -.TH selbuf 3mLib "23 May 1999" mLib +.TH selbuf 3 "23 May 1999" mLib .SH NAME selbuf \- line-buffering input selector +.\" @selbuf_enable +.\" @selbuf_disable +.\" @selbuf_init .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B "#include " @@ -18,11 +21,11 @@ selbuf \- line-buffering input selector The .B selbuf subsystem is a selector which integrates with the -.BR sel (3mLib) +.BR sel (3) system for I/O multiplexing. It reads entire text lines from a file descriptor and passes them to a caller-defined function. It uses the line buffer described in -.BR lbuf (3mLib) +.BR lbuf (3) to do its work: you should read about it in order to understand exactly what gets considered to be a line of text and what doesn't, and the exact rules about what your line handling function should and shouldn't @@ -36,22 +39,22 @@ This object must be allocated by the caller, and initialized using the .B selbuf_init function. This requires a fair few arguments: .TP -.I b +.BI "selbuf *" b Pointer to the .B selbuf object to initialize. .TP -.I s +.BI "sel_state *" s Pointer to a multiplexor object (type .BR sel_state ) to which this selector should be attached. See -.BR sel (3mLib) +.BR sel (3) for more details about multiplexors, and how this whole system works. .TP -.I fd +.BI "int " fd The file descriptor of the stream the selector should read from. .TP -.I func +.BI "void (*" func ")(char *" s ", void *" p ) The .I "line handler" function. It is passed a pointer to each line read from the file (or @@ -61,7 +64,7 @@ argument to .B selbuf_init described below). .TP -.I p +.BI "void *" p A pointer argument passed to .I func for each line read from the file. Apart from this, the pointer is not @@ -85,5 +88,9 @@ queued up from the last I/O operation: it doesn't necessarily wait for the next .B sel_select call. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR lbuf (3), +.BR sel (3), +.BR mLib (3). .SH AUTHOR Mark Wooding,