This file documents the use and the internals of Assuan.

   This is Edition 3.0.2, last updated 18 June 2024, of ‘The 'Developing
with Assuan' Manual’, for Version 3.0.2.

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Introduction
1 Introduction to Assuan
2 Description of the Assuan protocol.
3 Implementation
4 Preparation
5 Generalities
6 How to develop an Assuan client
7 How to develop an Assuan server
8 How to use external I/O event loops
9 Utility functions
10 Socket wrapper functions
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Index
Introduction
1 Introduction to Assuan
2 Description of the Assuan protocol.
3 Implementation
  3.1 Server responses
  3.2 Client requests
  3.3 Error codes
4 Preparation
  4.1 Header
  4.2 Building sources
  4.3 Building sources using Automake
  4.4 Multi Threading
5 Generalities
  5.1 Data Types used by the library
  5.2 Initializing the library
  5.3 Default Log Handler
  5.4 How to work with contexts
  5.5 How to communicate with the peer
6 How to develop an Assuan client
7 How to develop an Assuan server
8 How to use external I/O event loops
  8.1 External I/O event loops in the client.
  8.2 External I/O event loops in the server.
9 Utility functions
10 Socket wrapper functions
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  Preamble
  How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
Index

Introduction
************

This manual documents how to exploit the Assuan library, a simple
interprocess communcation library.

1 Introduction to Assuan
************************

Assuan is an extensible inter-process communication (IPC) protocol and
library.  It is designed for point-to-point communication and it doesn't
provide a naming system.  To contact a server, either the client must
know how to locate the server, e.g., via a well-known Unix domain
socket, or, if the server is transient, how to start it.  In the latter
case, Assuan provides functionality to start the server process.

   In Assuan, communication is typically either via a pipe or a Unix
domain socket.  This method is neither elegant nor efficient, especially
when there is a lot of data spread across several transactions.  Not
only is there a penalty for an increased number of context switches, but
a significant amount of data is MEMCPYed from the client to a file
descriptor and from the file descriptor to the server.  Despite these
and other disadvantages, this type of client/server communication is
useful: the client is separated from the server: they run in different
address spaces.  This is especially important in situations where the
server must have a known degree of reliability and data must be
protected: as the Assuan protocol is well defined and clients cannot
corrupt the servers' address space, auditing becomes much easier.

   Assuan was developed for use by the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) to
prevent potentially buggy clients from unwittingly corrupting sensitive
transactions or compromising data such as a secret key.  Assuan permits
the servers, which do the actual work, e.g., encryption and decryption
of data using a secret key, to be developed independently of the user
interfaces, e.g., mail clients and other encryption front ends.  Like a
shared library, the interface is well defined and any number of front
ends can use it; however, unlike a shared library, the client cannot see
or touch the server's data.  As with any modular system, Assuan helps
keep the components small, understandable and less error prone.

   Assuan is not, however, limited to use with GnuPG servers and
clients: it was designed to be flexible enough to meet the demands of
many transaction-based environments.

2 Description of the Assuan protocol.
*************************************

The architecture of the modular GnuPG system is based on several highly
specialized modules which form a network of clients and servers.  A
common framework for intermodule communication is therefore needed and
implemented as a library.

   Goals:

   • Common framework for module communication
   • Easy debugging
   • Easy module testing
   • Extensible
   • Optional authentication and encryption facility
   • Usable to access external hardware

   Design criteria:

   • Client/Server with back channel
   • Use a mainly text based protocol
   • Escape certain control characters
   • Allow indefinite data length
   • Request confidentiality for parts of the communication
   • Dummy module to allow direct linking of client and server
   • Inline data or descriptor passing for bulk data
   • No protection against DoS needed
   • Subliminal channels are not an issue

3 Implementation
****************

The implementation is line based with a maximum line size of 1000
octets.  The default IPC mechanism is Unix Domain Sockets.

   On connect, the server responds either with okay or an error status.
To perform an authentication check, the server may send an Inquiry
response prior to the first Okay.  It may also issue Status messages.
The server must check that the client is allowed to connect.  This is
done by requesting the credentials for the peer and comparing them with
the server's credentials.  This avoids attacks based on wrong socket
permissions.

   The server may choose to delay the first response in case of an
error.  The server, however, never closes the connection, however, the
lower protocol may do so after some time of inactivity or when the
connection enters an error state.

   All textual messages are assumed to be in UTF-8 unless otherwise
noted.

3.1 Server responses
====================

‘OK [<arbitrary debugging information>]’
     Request was successful.

‘ERR ERRORCODE [<human readable error description>]’
     Request could not be fulfilled.  The possible error codes are
     defined by ‘libgpg-error’.

‘S KEYWORD <status information depending on keyword>’
     Informational output by the server, which is still processing the
     request.  A client may not send such lines to the server while
     processing an Inquiry command.  KEYWORD shall start with a letter
     or an underscore.

‘# <string>’
     Comment line issued only for debugging purposes.  Totally ignored.

‘D <raw data>’
     Raw data returned to client.  There must be exactly one space after
     the 'D'. The values for '%', CR and LF must be percent escaped;
     these are encoded as %25, %0D and %0A, respectively.  Only
     uppercase letters should be used in the hexadecimal representation.
     Other characters may be percent escaped for easier debugging.  All
     Data lines are considered one data stream up to the OK or ERR
     response.  Status and Inquiry Responses may be mixed with the Data
     lines.

‘INQUIRE KEYWORD <parameters>’
     The server needs further information from the client.  The client
     should respond with data (using the "D" command and terminated by
     "END"). Alternatively, the client may cancel the current operation
     by responding with "CAN".

   Consider the following examples (lines prefixed with S indicate text
that the server sends; lines prefixed with C indicate text that the
client sends):

     S: INQUIRE foo
     C: D foo bar
     C: D bar baz
     C: END
     [Server continues normal work]

   This implements a callback to the client:

     S: INQUIRE foo
     C: END
     [Server continues]

   and:

     S: INQUIRE foo
     C: CAN
     [Server terminates the operaion and in most cases returns an ERR to the client.]

   But, CAN may also mean "I have no data for you, try to get it from
elsewhere."

   Note: lines longer than 1000 bytes should be treated as a
communication error.  (The rationale for having a line length limit is
to allow for easier multiplexing of several channels.)

3.2 Client requests
===================

The server waits for client requests after sending an Okay or Error.
The client should not issue a request in other cases.

     COMMAND <parameters>

   COMMAND is a one word string without preceding white space.
Parameters are command specific, CR, LF and the percent signs should be
percent escaped as described above.  To send a backslash as the last
character it should also be percent escaped.  Percent escaping is
allowed anywhere in the parameters but not in the command.  The line
ends with a CR, LF pair or just a LF.

   Not yet implemented feature: If there is a need for a parameter list
longer than the line length limit (1000 characters including command and
CR, LF), the last character of the line (right before the CR/LF or LF)
must be a unescaped (i.e., literal) backslash.  The following line is
then expected to be a continuation of the line with the backslash
replaced by a blank and the line ending removed.

     D <raw data>

   Sends raw data to the server.  There must be exactly one space after
the 'D'. The values for '%', CR and LF must be percent escaped.  These
are encoded as %25, %0D and %0A, respectively.  Only uppercase letters
should be used in the hexadecimal representation.  Other characters may
be percent escaped for easier debugging.  All Data lines are considered
one data stream up to the ‘OK’ or ‘ERR’ response.  Status and Inquiry
Responses may be mixed with the Data lines.

     END

   Lines beginning with a ‘#’ or empty lines are ignored.  This is
useful to comment test scripts.

   Although the commands are application specific, some of them are used
by all protocols and partly supported by the Assuan library:

‘BYE’
     Close the connection.  The server will respond with ‘OK’.

‘RESET’
     Reset the connection but not any existing authentication.  The
     server should release all resources associated with the connection.

‘END’
     Used by a client to mark the end of raw data.  The server may send
     ‘END’ to indicate a partial end of data.

‘HELP’
     Lists all commands that the server understands as comment lines on
     the status channel.

‘QUIT’
     Reserved for future extensions.

‘OPTION’
     Set options for the connection.  The syntax of such a line is
            OPTION NAME [ [=] VALUE ]
     Leading and trailing spaces around NAME and VALUE are allowed but
     should be ignored.  For compatibility reasons, NAME may be prefixed
     with two dashes.  The use of the equal sign is optional but
     suggested if VALUE is given.

‘CANCEL’
     This command is reserved for future extensions.

‘AUTH’
     This command is reserved for future extensions.  Not yet specified
     as we don't implement it in the first phase.  See Werner's mail to
     gpa-dev on 2001-10-25 about the rationale for measurements against
     local attacks.

‘NOP’
     No operation.  Returns OK without any action.

3.3 Error codes
===============

Libassuan is used with gpg-error style error codes.  It is recommended
to set the error source to a different value from the default
‘GPG_ERR_SOURCE_UNKNOWN’ by calling function assuan_set_gpg_err_source
early.

4 Preparation
*************

To use ASSUAN, you have to make some changes to your sources and the
build system.  The necessary changes are small and explained in the
following sections.

4.1 Header
==========

All interfaces (data types and functions) of ‘libassuan’ are defined in
the header file ‘assuan.h’.  You must include this in all source files
using the library, either directly or through some other header file,
like this:

     #include <assuan.h>

   The namespace of ‘libassuan’ is ‘assuan_*’ for function and type
names and ‘ASSUAN*’ for other symbols.  In addition the same name
prefixes with one prepended underscore are reserved for internal use and
should never be used by an application.

   Because ‘libassuan’ makes use of the GPG Error library, using
‘libassuan’ will also use the ‘GPG_ERR_*’ namespace directly, and the
‘gpg_err*’ and ‘gpg_str*’ namespaces indirectly.

4.2 Building sources
====================

If you want to compile a source file including the ‘assuan.h’ header
file, you must make sure that the compiler can find it in the directory
hierarchy.  This is accomplished by adding the path to the directory in
which the header file is located to the compilers include file search
path (via the ‘-I’ option).

   However, the path to the include file is determined at the time the
source is configured.  To solve this problem, ‘libassuan’ ships with
‘libassuan.pc’ file, that knows the path to the include file and other
configuration options.  The options that need to be added to the
compiler invocation at compile time are output by the ‘--cflags’ option
to ‘pkg-config libassuan’.  The following example shows how it can be
used at the command line:

     gcc -c foo.c $(pkg-config --cflags libassuan)

   Adding the output of ‘pkg-config --cflags libassuan’ to the
compiler's command line will ensure that the compiler can find the
‘assuan.h’ header file.

   A similar problem occurs when linking the program with the library.
Again, the compiler/linker has to find the library files.  For this to
work, the path to the library files has to be added to the library
search path (via the ‘-L’ option).  For this, the option ‘--libs’ to
‘pkg-config libassuan’ can be used.  For convenience, this option also
outputs all other options that are required to link the program with the
‘libassuan’ libraries (in particular, the ‘-lassuan’ option).  The
example shows how to link ‘foo.o’ with the ‘libassuan’ library to a
program ‘foo’.

     gcc -o foo foo.o $(pkg-config --libs libassuan)

   You can also combine both examples to a single command by specifying
both options to ‘pkg-config libassuan’:

     gcc -o foo foo.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs libassuan)

4.3 Building sources using Automake
===================================

It is much easier if you use GNU Automake instead of writing your own
Makefiles.  If you do that you do not have to worry about finding and
invoking the ‘pkg-config’ script at all.

   You can use ‘PKG_CHECK_MODULES’ macro, or, ‘libassuan’ also provides
an Automake macro that does all the work for you.

 -- Macro: AM_PATH_LIBASSUAN ([MINIMUM-VERSION], [ACTION-IF-FOUND],
          [ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND])
     Check whether ‘libassuan’ (at least version MINIMUM-VERSION, if
     given) exists on the host system.  If it is found, execute
     ACTION-IF-FOUND, otherwise do ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND, if given.

     Additionally, the function defines ‘LIBASSUAN_CFLAGS’ to the flags
     needed for compilation of the program to find the ‘assuan.h’ header
     file, and ‘LIBASSUAN_LIBS’ to the linker flags needed to link the
     program to the ‘libassuan’ library.

   You can use the defined Autoconf variables like this in your
‘Makefile.am’:

     AM_CPPFLAGS = $(LIBASSUAN_CFLAGS)
     LDADD = $(LIBASSUAN_LIBS)

4.4 Multi Threading
===================

The ‘libassuan’ library is designed so that it can be used in a threaded
application, if some rules are followed.

   • Run the initialization functions before you actually start to use
     threads.  Specifically, the functions ‘assuan_set_gpg_err_source’,
     ‘assuan_set_malloc_hooks’ and ‘assuan_set_log_cb’ should not be
     called concurrently with ‘assuan_new’.  Use ‘assuan_new_ext’
     instead or ensure proper serialization.
   • Only one thread at a time may access an ‘libassuan’ context.
   • If you use the default log handler, use
     ‘assuan_set_assuan_log_stream’ to setup a default log stream.
   • If you have callback functions shared by multiple functions, the
     callback function must be reentrant for that purpose.  ‘libassuan’
     does not serialize invocation of callback functions across
     contexts.

5 Generalities
**************

5.1 Data Types used by the library
==================================

ASSUAN uses a so-called context to store a connection's state.  The
following data type is used for that:

 -- Data type: assuan_context_t
     The ‘assuan_context_t’ type is a pointer to an object maintained
     internally by the library.  Contexts are allocated with
     ‘assuan_new’ or ‘assuan_new_ext’ and released with
     ‘assuan_release’.  Other functions take this data type to access
     the state created by these functions.

 -- Data type: assuan_fd_t
     The ‘assuan_fd_t’ is a file descriptor (in Unix) or a system handle
     (in Windows).  The special value ‘ASSUAN_INVALID_FD’ is used to
     specify invalid Assuan file descriptors.

 -- Function: assuan_fd_t assuan_fdopen (int FD)
     Create an assuan file descriptor from a POSIX (libc) file
     descriptor FD.  On Unix, this is equivalent to ‘dup’, while on
     Windows this will retrieve the underlying system handle with
     ‘_get_osfhandle’ and duplicate that.

5.2 Initializing the library
============================

Libassuan makes use of Libgpg-error and assumes that Libgpg-error has
been initialized.  In general ‘gpgrt_check_version’ should be called to
guarantee this; the Libgpg-error manual for details.

   Libassuan itself requires no initialization.  There are however some
initialization hooks provided which are often useful.  These should be
called as early as possible and in a multi-threaded application before a
second thread is created.

   These functions initialize default values that are used at context
creation with ‘assuan_new’.  As there can only be one default, all
values can also be set directly with ‘assuan_new_ext’ or with
context-specific functions after context creation.

   If your application uses its own memory allocation functions or
wrappers it is good idea to tell ‘libassuan’ about it so it can make use
of the same functions or wrappers:

 -- Data type: struct assuan_malloc_hooks
     This structure is used to store the memory allocation callback
     interface functions.  It has the following members, whose semantics
     are identical to the corresponding system functions:

     ‘void *(*malloc) (size_t cnt)’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to allocate memory for a
          context.

     ‘void *(*realloc) (void *ptr, size_t cnt)’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to reallocate memory for
          a context.

     ‘void (*free) (void *ptr)’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to release memory for a
          context.

 -- Data type: assuan_malloc_hooks_t
     This is a pointer to a ‘struct assuan_malloc_hooks’.

 -- Function: void assuan_set_malloc_hooks
          (assuan_malloc_hooks_t MALLOC_HOOKS)
     This function sets the default allocation hooks for new contexts
     allocated with ‘assuan_new’.  You need to provide all three
     functions.  Those functions need to behave exactly as their
     standard counterparts ‘malloc’, ‘realloc’ and ‘free’.  If you write
     your own functions, please take care to set ‘errno’ whenever an
     error has occurred.

 -- Function: assuan_malloc_hooks_t assuan_get_malloc_hooks ()
     This function gets the default allocation hooks for new contexts
     allocated with ‘assuan_new’.  The result structure is statically
     allocated and should not be modified.

   The ASSUAN library uses ‘libgpg-error’ error values, which consist
and error code and an error source.  The default source used by contexts
allocated with ‘assuan_new’ can be set with the following function.

 -- Function: void assuan_set_gpg_err_source
          (gpg_err_source_t ERR_SOURCE)
     This function sets the default error source for errors generated by
     contexts allocated with ‘assuan_new’.

     One way to call this function is
          assuan_set_gpg_err_source (GPG_ERR_SOURCE_DEFAULT);

 -- Function: gpg_err_source_t assuan_get_gpg_err_source (void)
     This function gets the default error source for errors generated by
     contexts allocated with ‘assuan_new’.

To integrate assuan logging and diagnostics into your own logging
system, you may use the following two functions:

 -- Data type: int (*assuan_log_cb_t) (assuan_context_t CTX,
          void *HOOK_VALUE, unsigned int CAT, const char *MSG)
     The user-provided callback function takes a context CTX, for which
     the message MSG was generated, and a hook value HOOK_VALUE that was
     supplied when the log handler was registered for the context with
     ‘assuan_set_log_cb’, and a category CAT.  The category is one of:

     ‘ASSUAN_LOG_INIT’
     ‘ASSUAN_LOG_CTX’
     ‘ASSUAN_LOG_ENGINE’
     ‘ASSUAN_LOG_DATA’
          RFU
     ‘ASSUAN_LOG_SYSIO’
          Log lowlevel I/O data.
     ‘ASSUAN_LOG_CONTROL’
          Log the control channel.

     The user may then, depending on the category, write the message to
     a log file or treat it in some other way.

     If MSG is a null pointer, then no message should be logged, but the
     function should return 1 if it is interested in log messages with
     the category CAT.  If it is not interested, 0 should be returned.
     This allows ‘libassuan’ to suppress the generation of expensive
     debug output.

 -- Function: void assuan_set_log_cb (assuan_log_cb_t LOG_CB,
          void *LOG_CB_DATA)
     This function sets the default logging handler for log messages
     generated by contexts allocated with ‘assuan_new’.

 -- Function: void assuan_get_log_cb (assuan_log_cb_t *LOG_CB,
          void **LOG_CB_DATA)
     This function gets the default logging handler for log messages
     generated by contexts allocated with ‘assuan_new’.

   You do not need to set a log handler, as ASSUAN provides a
configurable default log handler that should be suitable for most
purposes.  Logging can be disabled completely by setting the log handler
to a null pointer.

5.3 Default Log Handler
=======================

The default log handler can be configured by the following functions:

 -- Function: void assuan_set_assuan_log_prefix (const char *TEXT)
     Set the prefix to be used at the start of a line emitted by assuan
     on the log stream to TEXT.  The default is the empty string.

 -- Function: const char * assuan_get_assuan_log_prefix (void)
     Return the prefix to be used at the start of a line emitted by
     assuan on the log stream.  The default implementation returns the
     empty string.

 -- Function: void assuan_set_assuan_log_stream (FILE *FP)
     This sets the default log stream to which ‘libassuan’ should log
     messages not associated with a specific context to FP.  The default
     is to log to ‘stderr’.  This default value is also changed by using
     ‘assuan_set_log_stream’ (to set a logging stream for a specific
     context) unless this function has been used.  Obviously this is not
     thread-safe and thus it is highly recommended to use this function
     to setup a proper default.

 -- Function: FILE * assuan_get_assuan_log_stream (void)
     Return the stream which is currently being using for global
     logging.

   The log stream used by the default log handler can also be set on a
per context basis.

 -- Function: void assuan_set_log_stream (assuan_context_t CTX,
          FILE *FP)
     Enable debugging for the context CTX and write all debugging output
     to the stdio stream FP.  If the default log stream (used for
     non-context specific events) has not yet been set, a call to this
     functions implicitly sets this stream also to FP.

5.4 How to work with contexts
=============================

Some operations work globally on the library, but most operate in a
context, which saves state across operations.  To allow the use of
‘libassuan’ in mixed environments, such as in a library using GPGME and
an application using GPGME, the context is very extensive and covers
utilitary information like memory allocation callbacks as well as
specific information associated with client/server operations.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_new (assuan_context_t *CTX_P)
     The function ‘assuan_new’ creates a new context, using the global
     default memory allocation, log handler and ‘libgpg-error’ source.
     It is equivalent to

          gpg_error_t err;
          assuan_log_cb_t log_cb;
          void *log_cb_data;

          assuan_get_log_cb (&log_cb, &log_cb_data);
          err = assuan_new_ext (ctx_p, assuan_get_gpg_err_source (),
                                assuan_get_malloc_hooks (), log_cb, log_cb_data);

     As you can see, this is not thread-safe.  Take care not to modify
     the memory allocation hooks or log callback handler concurrently
     with ‘assuan_new’.

     The function returns an error if a memory allocation error occurs,
     and 0 with the new context in CTX_P otherwise.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_new_ext (assuan_context_t *CTX_P,
          gpg_err_source_t ERR_SOURCE,
          assuan_malloc_hooks_t MALLOC_HOOKS, assuan_log_cb_t LOG_CB,
          void *LOG_CB_DATA)
     The function ‘assuan_new_ext’ creates a new context using the
     supplied ‘libgpg-error’ error source ERR_SOURCE, the memory
     allocation hooks MALLOC_HOOKS and the log handler LOG_CB with the
     user data LOG_CB_DATA.

   After the context has been used, it can be destroyed again.

 -- Function: void assuan_release (assuan_context_t ctx)
     The function ‘assuan_release’ destroys the context CTX and releases
     all associated resources.

   Other properties of the context beside the memory allocation handler,
the log handler, and the ‘libgpg-error’ source can be set after context
creation.  Here are some of them:

 -- Function: void assuan_set_pointer (assuan_context_t CTX,
          void *POINTER)

     Store the arbitrary pointer value POINTER into the context CTX.
     This is useful to provide command handlers with additional
     application context.

 -- Function: void* assuan_get_pointer (assuan_context_t CTX)

     This returns the pointer for context CTX which has been set using
     the above function.  A common way to use it is by setting the
     pointer before starting the processing loop and to retrieve it
     right at the start of a command handler:
          static int
          cmd_foo (assuan_context_t ctx, char *line)
          {
            ctrl_t ctrl = assuan_get_pointer (ctx);
            ...
          }

 -- Function: void assuan_set_flag (assuan_context_t CTX,
          assuan_flag_t FLAG, int VALUE)

     Set the the FLAG for context CTX to VALUE.  Values for flags are
     usually 1 or 0 but certain flags might need other values.

      -- Data type: assuan_flag_t
          The flags are all named and collected in an ‘enum’ for better
          readability.  Available flags are:

          ‘ASSUAN_NO_WAITPID’
               When using a pipe server, by default Libassuan will wait
               for the forked process to die in ‘assuan_release’.  In
               certain cases this is not desirable.  By setting this
               flag, a call to ‘waitpid’ will be suppressed and the
               caller is responsible to cleanup the child process.
          ‘ASSUAN_CONFIDENTIAL’
               Use to return the state of the confidential logging mode.
          ‘ASSUAN_NO_FIXSIGNALS’
               Do not modify signal handler for ‘SIGPIPE’.
          ‘ASSUAN_CONVEY_COMMENTS’
               If enabled comment lines are passed to the status
               callback of the ‘assuan_transact’.
          ‘ASSUAN_FORCE_CLOSE’
               Setting this flag forces the next command to assume that
               the connection has been closed.  This breaks the command
               processing loop and may be used as an implicit BYE
               command.  VALUE is ignored and thus it is not possible to
               clear this flag.

 -- Function: int assuan_get_flag (assuan_context_t CTX,
          assuan_flag_t FLAG)
     Return the value of FLAG in context CTX.

 -- Function: void assuan_begin_confidential (assuan_context_t CTX)
     Put the logging feature into confidential mode.  This is to avoid
     logging of sensitive data.

     This is identical to:
          assuan_set_flag (ctx, ASSUAN_CONFIDENTIAL, 1);

 -- Function: void assuan_end_confidential (assuan_context_t CTX)
     Get the logging feature out of confidential mode.  All data will be
     logged again (if logging is enabled).

     This is identical to:
          assuan_set_flag (ctx, ASSUAN_CONFIDENTIAL, 0);

 -- Data type: struct assuan_system_hooks
     This structure is used to store the system callback interface
     functions.  It has the following members, whose semantics are
     similar to the corresponding system functions, but not exactly
     equivalent.

     ‘int version’
          The user should set this to ‘ASSUAN_SYSTEM_HOOKS_VERSION’.
          This indicates to the library which members of this structure
          are present in case of future extensions.  The user should
          initialize the whole structure with zero bytes.

     ‘void (*usleep) (assuan_context_t ctx, unsigned int usec)’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to sleep for ‘USEC’
          microseconds.

     ‘int (*pipe) (assuan_context_t ctx, assuan_fd_t fd[2], int inherit_idx)’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to create a pipe.  The
          returned file descriptor ‘fd[inherit_idx]’ must be inheritable
          by the child process (under Windows, this requires some extra
          work).

     ‘int (*close) (assuan_context_t ctx, assuan_fd_t fd)’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to close a file
          descriptor created through the system functions.

     ‘ssize_t (*read) (assuan_context_t ctx, assuan_fd_t fd, void *buffer, size_t size)’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to read data from a file
          descriptor.  It is functionally equivalent to the system
          ‘read’ function.

     ‘ssize_t (*write) (assuan_context_t ctx, assuan_fd_t fd, const void *buffer, size_t size)’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to write data to a file
          descriptor.  It is functionally equivalent to the system
          ‘write’ function.

     ‘int (*recvmsg) (assuan_context_t ctx, assuan_fd_t fd, assuan_msghdr_t msg, int flags)’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to receive a message
          from a file descriptor.  It is functionally equivalent to the
          system ‘recvmsg’ function.

     ‘int (*sendmsg) (assuan_context_t ctx, assuan_fd_t fd, const assuan_msghdr_t msg, int flags);’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to send a message to a
          file descriptor.  It is functionally equivalent to the system
          ‘sendmsg’ function.

     ‘int (*spawn) (assuan_context_t ctx, assuan_pid_t *r_pid, const char *name, const char **argv, assuan_fd_t fd_in, assuan_fd_t fd_out, assuan_fd_t *fd_child_list, void (*atfork) (void *opaque, int reserved), void *atforkvalue, unsigned int flags)’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to spawn a child
          process.  The ‘stdin’ and ‘stdout’ file descriptors are
          provided in ‘fd_in’ and ‘fd_out’ respectively, but can be set
          to ‘ASSUAN_INVALID_FD’, in which case they are set to
          ‘/dev/null’.  On systems which use ‘fork’ and ‘exec’, the
          ‘atfork’ function should be called with ‘atforkvalue’ and ‘0’
          for flags in the child process right after ‘fork’ returns.
          ‘fd_child_list’ is a ‘ASSUAN_INVALID_FD’ terminated array (or
          ‘NULL’) and specifies file descriptors to be inherited by the
          child process.

          A special situation occurs if ‘name’ is a null pointer, in
          which case the process should just fork but not call ‘exec’.
          In this case, ‘*argv’ should be set to ‘"client"’ in the
          parent process and ‘"server"’ in the child process.

          Flags is the bit-wise OR of some (or none) of the following
          flags:

          ‘ASSUAN_SPAWN_DETACHED’
               If set and there is a need to start the server it will be
               started as a background process.  This flag is useful
               under W32 systems, so that no new console is created and
               pops up a console window when starting the server.  On
               W32CE systems this flag is ignored.

     ‘assuan_pid_t (*waitpid) (assuan_context_t ctx, assuan_pid_t pid, int action, int *status, int options)’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to wait for the spawned
          child process PID to exit, or, if ACTION is 1, to just release
          all resources associated with PID (required on Windows
          platforms).  If ACTION is 0, this is equivalent to ‘waitpid’.

     ‘int (*socketpair) (assuan_context_t ctx, int namespace, int style, int protocol, assuan_fd_t filedes[2])’
          This is the function called by ASSUAN to create a socketpair.
          It is equivalent to ‘socketpair’.

 -- Function: void assuan_set_system_hooks
          (assuan_system_hooks_t SYSTEM_HOOKS)
     Set the default system hooks to use.  There is currently no way to
     reset to the default system hooks.

 -- Function: void assuan_sock_set_system_hooks
          (assuan_system_hooks_t SYSTEM_HOOKS)
     The socket subsystem uses an internal context which uses the
     default system hooks.  This function allows to change these system
     hooks.  The function is not thread-safe and only useful if a
     certain order of assuan and assuan socket initializations are
     required.

 -- Function: void assuan_ctx_set_system_hooks (assuan_context_t CTX,
          assuan_system_hooks_t SYSTEM_HOOKS)
     Set the system hooks for context CTX.  There is currently no way to
     reset to the default system hooks, create a new context for that.

   The following system hook collections are defined by the library for
your convenience:

‘ASSUAN_SYSTEM_NPTH’
     System hooks suitable for use with the nPth library.
‘ASSUAN_SYSTEM_NPTH_IMPL’
     The implementation of system hooks for use with the nPth library.
     This must be invoked once somewhere in the application, and defines
     the structure that is referenced by ‘ASSUAN_SYSTEM_NPTH’.

5.5 How to communicate with the peer
====================================

What would be an IPC library without the ability to read and write data?
Not very useful.  Libassuan has high level functions to take care of of
the more boring stuff, but eventually data needs to be written and read.

The basic read and write functions are:

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_read_line (assuan_context_t CTX,
          char **LINE, size_t *LINELEN)

     Read the next line written by the peer to the control channel and
     store a pointer to the buffer holding that line at the address
     LINE.  The valid length of the lines is stored at the address of
     LINELEN.  This buffer is valid until the next read operation on the
     same context CTX.  You may modify the context of this buffer.  The
     buffer is invalid (i.e., must not be used) if an error is returned.
     This function returns ‘0’ on success or an error value.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_write_line (assuan_context_t CTX,
          const char *LINE)

     Write the string LINE to the other end on the control channel.
     This string needs to be a proper formatted Assuan protocol line and
     should not include a linefeed.  Sending linefeed or ‘Nul’
     characters is not possible and not allowed by the assuan protocol.
     This function shall not be used for sending data (‘D’) lines.  This
     function returns ‘0’ on success or an error value.

To actually send bulk data lines a specialized function is available:

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_send_data (assuan_context_t CTX,
          const void *BUFFER, size_t LENGTH)

     This function is used by a server or a client to send LENGTH bytes
     of bulk data in BUFFER to the other end on the control channel.
     The data will be escaped as required by the Assuan protocol and may
     get buffered until a line is full.  To flush any pending data,
     BUFFER may be passed as ‘NULL’ and LENGTH be ‘0’.

     When used by a client, this flush operation does also send the
     ‘END’ command to terminate the response on an ‘INQUIRE’ request.
     Note that the function ‘assuan_transact’ takes care of sending this
     ‘END’ itself.

     This function returns ‘0’ on success or an error value.

   The input and output of data can be controlled at a higher level
using an I/O monitor.

 -- Data type: unsigned int (*assuan_io_monitor_t)
          (assuan_context_t CTX, void *HOOK_VALUE, int INOUT,
          const char *LINE, size_t LINELEN)
     The monitor function is called right after a line has been
     received, if INOUT is ‘ASSUAN_IO_FROM_PEER’, or just before it is
     send, if INOUT is ‘ASSUAN_IO_TO_PEER’.  The HOOK_VALUE is provided
     by the user when registering the I/O monitor function with a
     context using ‘assuan_set_io_monitor’.  The callback function
     should return the bitwise OR of some (or none) of the following
     flags:

     ‘ASSUAN_IO_MONITOR_NOLOG’
          Active logging of this line is suppressed.  This can reduce
          debug output in the case of a frequent message.
     ‘ASSUAN_IO_MONITOR_IGNORE’
          The whole output line is discarded.

 -- Function: void assuan_set_io_monitor (assuan_context_t CTX,
          assuan_io_monitor_t IO_MONITOR, void *HOOK_DATA)
     This function registers an I/O monitor IO_MONITOR for the context
     CTX with the hook value HOOK_DATA.

6 How to develop an Assuan client
*********************************

Depending on the type of the server you want to connect you need to use
different functions.

   If the peer is not a simple pipe server but one using full-duplex
sockets, the full-fledged variant of the above function should be used:

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_pipe_connect
          (assuan_context_t CTX,const char *NAME, const char *ARGV[],
          assuan_fd_t *FD_CHILD_LIST, void (*ATFORK) (void *, int),
          void *ATFORKVALUE, unsigned int FLAGS)

     A call to this functions forks the current process and executes the
     program NAME, passing the arguments given in the NULL-terminated
     list ARGV.  A list of file descriptors not to be closed may be
     given using the ‘ASSUAN_INVALID_FD’ terminated array FD_CHILD_LIST.

     If NAME is a null pointer, only a fork but no exec is done.  Thus
     the child continues to run.  However all file descriptors are
     closed and some special environment variables are set.  To let the
     caller detect whether the child or the parent continues, the parent
     returns with ‘"client"’ returned in ARGV and the child returns with
     ‘"server"’ in ARGV.  This feature is only available on POSIX
     platforms.

     If ATFORK is not NULL, this function is called in the child right
     after the fork and the value ATFORKVALUE is passed as the first
     argument.  That function should only act if the second argument it
     received is ‘0’.  Such a fork callback is useful to release
     additional resources not to be used by the child.

     FLAGS is a bit vector and controls how the function acts:

     ‘ASSUAN_PIPE_CONNECT_FDPASSING’
          If cleared a simple pipe based server is expected.  If set a
          server based on full-duplex pipes is expected.  Such pipes are
          usually created using the ‘socketpair’ function.  It also
          enables features only available with such servers.

     ‘ASSUAN_PIPE_CONNECT_DETACHED’
          If set and there is a need to start the server it will be
          started as a background process.  This flag is useful under
          W32 systems, so that no new console is created and pops up a
          console window when starting the server.  On W32CE systems
          this flag is ignored.

   If you are using a long running server listening either on a TCP or a
Unix domain socket, the following function is used to connect to the
server:

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_socket_connect (assuan_context_t CTX,
          const char *NAME, pid_t SERVER_PID, unsigned int FLAGS)

     Make a connection to the Unix domain socket NAME using the
     already-initialized Assuan context at CTX.  SERVER_PID is currently
     not used but may become handy in the future; if you don't know the
     server's process ID (PID), pass ‘ASSUAN_INVALID_PID’.  With FLAGS
     set to ‘ASSUAN_SOCKET_CONNECT_FDPASSING’, ‘sendmsg’ and ‘recvmesg’
     are used for input and output and thereby enable the use of
     descriptor passing.

     Connecting to a TCP server is not yet implemented.  Standard URL
     schemes are reserved for NAME specifying a TCP server.

   Now that we have a connection to the server, all work may be
conveniently done using a couple of callbacks and the transact function:

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_transact (assuan_context_t CTX,
          const char *COMMAND,
          gpg_error_t (*DATA_CB)(void *, const void *, size_t),
          void *DATA_CB_ARG,
          gpg_error_t (*INQUIRE_CB)(void*, const char *),
          void *INQUIRE_CB_ARG,
          gpg_error_t (*STATUS_CB)(void*, const char *),
          void *STATUS_CB_ARG)

     Here CTX is the Assuan context opened by one of the connect calls.
     COMMAND is the actual Assuan command string.  It shall not end with
     a line feed and its length is limited to ‘ASSUAN_LINELENGTH’ (~1000
     bytes)

     DATA_CB is called by Libassuan for data lines; DATA_CB_ARG is
     passed to it along with the data and the length.  [FIXME: needs
     more documentation].

     INQUIRE_CB is called by Libassuan when the server requests
     additional information from the client while processing the
     command.  This callback shall check the provided inquiry name and
     send the data as requested back using the ‘assuan_send_data’.  The
     server passed INQUIRY_CB_ARG along with the inquiry name to the
     callback.

     STATUS_CB is called by Libassuan for each status line it receives
     from the server.  STATUS_CB_ARG is passed along with the status
     line to the callback.

     The function returns ‘0’ success or an error value.  The error
     value may be the one one returned by the server in error lines or
     one generated by the callback functions.

   Libassuan supports descriptor passing on some platforms.  The next
two functions are used with this feature:

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_sendfd (assuan_context_t CTX,
          assuan_fd_t FD)

     Send the descriptor FD to the peer using the context CTX.  The
     descriptor must be sent before the command is issued that makes use
     of the descriptor.

     Note that calling this function with a CTX of ‘NULL’ and FD of
     ‘ASSUAN_INVALID_FD’ can be used as a runtime test to check whether
     descriptor passing is available on the platform: ‘0’ is returned if
     descriptor passing is available, otherwise an error with the error
     code ‘GPG_ERR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED’ is returned.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_receivefd (assuan_context_t CTX,
          assuan_fd_t *FD)

     Receive a descriptor pending for the context CTX from the peer.
     The descriptor must be pending before this function is called.  To
     accomplish this, the peer needs to use ‘assuan_sendfd’ before the
     trigger is sent (e.g., using ‘assuan_write_line ("INPUT FD")’.

7 How to develop an Assuan server
*********************************

Implementing a server for Assuan is a bit more complex than a client.
However, it is a straightforward task we are going to explain using a
commented example.

The list of the implemented server commands is defined by a table like:

       static struct {
         const char *name;
         int (*handler) (assuan_context_t, char *line);
       } command_table[] = {
         { "FOO", cmd_foo },
         { "BAR", cmd_bar },
         { "INPUT", NULL },
         { "OUTPUT", NULL },
         { NULL }};

   For convenience this table is usually put after the actual command
handlers (‘cmd_foo’, ‘cmd_bar’) or even put inside ‘command_handler’
(see below).  Note that the commands ‘INPUT’ and ‘OUTPUT’ do not require
a handler because Libassuan provides a default handler for them.  It is
however possible to assign a custom handler.

   A prerequisite for this example code is that a client has already
connected to the server.  Often there are two modes combined in one
program: A pipe-based server, where a client has forked the server
process, or a Unix domain socket based server that is listening on the
socket.

     void
     command_handler (int fd)
     {
       gpg_error_t rc;
       int i;
       assuan_context_t ctx;

       rc = assuan_new (&ctx);
       if (rc)
         {
           fprintf (stderr, "server context creation failed: %s\n",
                    gpg_strerror(rc));
           return;
         }

       if (fd == -1)
         {
           assuan_fd_t filedes[2];

           filedes[0] = assuan_fd_from_posix_fd (0);
           filedes[1] = assuan_fd_from_posix_fd (1);
           rc = assuan_init_pipe_server (ctx, filedes);
         }
       else
         rc = assuan_init_socket_server (ctx, fd, ASSUAN_SOCKET_SERVER_ACCEPTED);
       if (rc)
         {
           fprintf (stderr, "server init failed: %s\n", gpg_strerror (rc));
           return;
         }

This is the first part of the command handler.  We start off by
allocating a new Assuan context with ‘assuan_new’.  See function
assuan_new.

   In case this is called as a pipe based server, FD will be based as FD
and the code assumes that the server's ‘stdin’ and ‘stdout’ file handles
are connected to a pipe.  The initialization is thus done using the
function:

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_init_pipe_server (assuan_context_t CTX,
          assuan_fd_t FILEDES[2])

     This function takes the two file descriptors from FILEDES and
     returns a new Assuan context at R_CTX.  As usual, a return value of
     ‘0’ indicates success and a failure is indicated by returning an
     error value.  In case of error, ‘NULL’ will be stored at R_CTX.

     In case the server has been called using a bi-directional pipe
     (socketpair), FILEDES is ignored and the file descriptor is taken
     from the environment variable ‘_assuan_connection_fd’.  You
     generally don't need to know this, because ‘assuan_pipe_connect’,
     which is called by the client to connect to such a server,
     automagically sets this variable.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_init_socket_server
          (assuan_context_t CTX, assuan_fd_t FD, unsigned int FLAGS)

     This function takes the file descriptor FD, which is expected to be
     associated with a socket, and an Assuan context CTX.  The following
     bits are currently defined for FLAGS:

     ‘ASSUAN_SOCKET_SERVER_FDPASSING’
          If set, ‘sendmsg’ and ‘recvmesg’ are used for input and
          output, which enables the use of descriptor passing.
     ‘ASSUAN_SOCKET_SERVER_ACCEPTED’
          If set, FD refers to an already accepted socket.  That is,
          Libassuan won't call ACCEPT for it.  It is suggested to set
          this bit as it allows better control of the connection state.

     As usual, a return value of ‘0’ indicates success and a failure is
     indicated by returning an error value.

On the Windows platform the following function needs to be called after
‘assuan_init_socket_server’:

 -- Function: void assuan_set_sock_nonce ( assuan_context_t CTX,
          assuan_sock_nonce_t *NONCE)

     Save a copy of NONCE in context CTX.  This should be used to
     register the server's nonce with a context established by
     ‘assuan_init_socket_server’.  It is technically only needed for
     Windows, but it does no harm to use it on other systems.

After error checking, the implemented assuan commands are registered
with the server.

       for (i = 0; command_table[i].name; i++)
         {
           rc = assuan_register_command (ctx,
                                         command_table[i].name,
                                         command_table[i].handler, NULL);
           if (rc)
             {
               fprintf (stderr, "register failed: %s\n", gpg_strerror (rc));
               assuan_release (ctx);
               return;
             }
         }

 -- Data type: gpg_error_t (*assuan_handler_t) (assuan_context_t CTX,
          char *LINE)
     This is the function invoked by ASSUAN for various command related
     callback functions.  Some of these callback functions have a
     different type, but most use ‘assuan_handler_t’.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_register_command (assuan_context_t CTX,
          const char *CMD_STRING, assuan_handler_t HANDLER,
          const char *HELP_STRING)

     This registers the command named CMD_STRING with the Assuan context
     CTX.  HANDLER is the function called by Libassuan if this command
     is received from the client.  NULL may be used for HANDLER to use a
     default handler (this only works with a few pre-defined commands).
     Note that several default handlers have already been registered
     when the context has been created: ‘NOP’, ‘CANCEL’, ‘OPTION’,
     ‘BYE’, ‘AUTH’, ‘RESET’ and ‘END’.  It is possible, but not
     recommended, to override these commands.

     HELP_STRING is a help string that is used for automatic
     documentation.  It should contain a usage line followed by an empty
     line and a complete description.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_register_post_cmd_notify
          (assuan_context_t CTX, void (*FNC)(assuan_context_t),
          gpg_error_t ERR)

     Register a function to be called right after a command has been
     processed.  ERR is the result code from the last internal assuan
     operation and not the one returned by the handler.  It may be used
     for command-related cleanup.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_register_bye_notify
          (assuan_context_t CTX, assuan_handler_t HANDLER)

     Register function FNC with context CTX to be called right before
     the standard handler for the ‘BYE’ command is being called.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_register_reset_notify
          (assuan_context_t CTX, assuan_handler_t HANDLER)

     Register function FNC with context CTX to be called right before
     the standard handler for the ‘RESET’ command is being called.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_register_cancel_notify
          (assuan_context_t CTX, assuan_handler_t HANDLER)

     Register function FNC with context CTX to be called right before
     the standard handler for the ‘RESET’ command is being called.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_register_option_handler
          (assuan_context_t CTX,
          gpg_error_t (*FNC)(assuan_context_t, const char*, const char*))

     Register function FNC with context CTX for processing options.
     That function is being called with the context, the name and the
     value of the option.  Leading and trailing spaces are removed from
     the name and the value.  The optional leading two dashes of the
     name are removed as well.  If no value has been given, an empty
     string is passed.  The function needs to return ‘0’ on success or
     an error code.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_register_input_notify
          (assuan_context_t CTX, assuan_handler_t HANDLER)

     Although the input function may be overridden with a custom
     handler, it is often more convenient to use the default handler and
     to know whether an ‘INPUT’ command has been seen and successfully
     parsed.  The second argument passed to that function is the entire
     line.  Because that line has already been parsed when the function
     gets called, a file descriptor set with the ‘INPUT’ command may
     already be used.  That file descriptor is available by calling
     ‘assuan_get_input_fd’.  If the notification function returns an
     error, the input fd does not change.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_register_output_notify
          (assuan_context_t CTX, assuan_handler_t HANDLER)

     Although the output function may be overridden with a custom
     handler, it is often more convenient to use the default handler and
     to know whether an ‘OUTPUT’ command has been seen and successfully
     parsed.  The second argument passed to that function is the entire
     line.  Because that line has already been parsed when the function
     gets called, a file descriptor set with the ‘OUTPUT’ command may
     already be used.  That file descriptor is available by calling
     ‘assuan_get_output_fd’.  If the notification function returns an
     error, the output fd does not change.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_set_hello_line (assuan_context_t CTX,
          const char *LINE)

     This is not actually a register function but may be called also
     after registering commands.  It changes the "Hello" line, sent by
     the server to the client as a first response, from a default string
     to the string LINE.  For logging purposes, it is often useful to
     use such a custom hello line which may tell version numbers and
     such.  Linefeeds are allowed in this string, however, each line
     needs to be shorter than the Assuan line length limit.

Now that everything has been setup, we can start to process our clients
requests.

       for (;;)
         {
           rc = assuan_accept (ctx);
           if (rc == -1)
             break;
           else if (rc)
             {
               fprintf (stderr, "accept problem: %s\n", gpg_strerror (rc));
               break;
             }

           rc = assuan_process (ctx);
           if (rc)
             {
               fprintf (stderr, "processing failed: %s\n", gpg_strerror (rc));
               continue;
             }
         }
       assuan_release (ctx);
     }

For future extensibility and to properly detect the end of the
connection the core of the server should loop over the accept and
process calls.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_accept (assuan_context_t CTX)

     A call to this function cancel any existing connection and waits
     for a connection from a client (that might be skipped, depending on
     the type of the server).  The initial handshake is performed which
     may include an initial authentication or encryption negotiation.
     On success ‘0’ is returned.  An error value will be returned if the
     connection could for some reason not be established.  An error code
     of ‘GPG_ERR_EOF’ indicates the end of the connection.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_process (assuan_context_t CTX)

     This function is used to handle the Assuan protocol after a
     connection has been established using ‘assuan_accept’.  It is the
     main protocol handler responsible for reading the client commands
     and calling the appropriate handlers.  The function returns ‘0’ on
     success or an error value if something went seriously wrong.  Error
     values from the individual command handlers, i.e., operational
     error, are not seen here.

That is all needed for the server code.  You only need to come up with
the code for the individual command handlers.  Take care that the line
passed to the command handlers is allocated statically within the
context and calls to Assuan functions may modify that line.  You are
also allowed to modify that line which makes parsing much easier.

8 How to use external I/O event loops
*************************************

The above implementations of an Assuan client and server are
synchronous, insofar as the main routines block until a request or
client connection is completely processed.  In some programs, for
example GUI applications, this is undesirable.  Instead, Assuan
operations should be non-blocking, and the caller should be able to poll
all involved file descriptors to determine when the next Assuan function
can be invoked without blocking.

   To make this possible, client and server have to adhere to some
rules:
   • Either partner should always write full lines.  If partial lines
     are written, the remainder of the line should be sent without
     delay.
   • Either partner should eagerly receive status messages.  While
     receiving and sending bulk data may be delayed, the status
     communication channel is different: Both partners may send status
     messages in blocking mode at any time the protocol allows them to
     send such status messages.  To ensure that these send operations do
     not actually block the sender, the recipient must be ready to
     receive without undue delay.
   • If descriptor passing is used over a socket, the descriptor must be
     sent after the corresponding command without undue delay.

   Together, these restrictions allow to limit the need for asynchronous
I/O operations to bulk data and the inbound status file descriptor.

   In addition to the above rules, client and server should adhere to
the following implementation guidelines.

8.1 External I/O event loops in the client.
===========================================

The reference implementation for using external I/O event loops in the
client is the GPGME library, which exports its own external I/O event
loop mechanism and utilizes the Assuan library transparently for the
user.  The following steps document how GPGME achieves this.

  1. Before connecting, set up pipes for bulk data transfer (using the
     INPUT/OUTPUT commands, for example).  These are passed to the
     server either by inheritance (using a pipe server) or by FD passing
     (using a socket server).

  2. Then you need to connect to the server.  GPGME uses a pipe server,
     so it just spawns a server process, which is a non-blocking
     operation.  FIXME: Currently, using a client with external event
     loop over a socket connection is not supported.  It is easy to
     support (we just need a variation of ‘assuan_socket_connect’ which
     takes an already connected socket FD and turns it into an Assuan
     context), so if you need this let us know.

  3. After connecting, get the inbound status FD with
     ‘assuan_get_active_fds’ (the first one returned is the status FD).
     This FD can be duplicated if it is convenient (GPGME does this to
     be able to close this FD and associated callback handlers without
     disrupting Assuan's internals).

  4. Then register the Assuan inbound status FD and all bulk data FDs
     with the I/O event mechanism.  In general, this requires setting up
     callback handlers for these FDs and registering them with the main
     event loop.

  5. When bulk data FDs become ready, you can simply perform the
     corresponding read or write operations.  When the inbound status FD
     becomes ready, you can receive the next server line with
     assuan_read_line().

  6. You should close and unregister the bulk data FDs when you wrote
     all data (for outbound FDs) or receive an EOF (for inbound FDs).
     When you receive an ERR from the server, or an OK for the final
     operation, you can unregister the inbound status FD and call
     ‘assuan_release’.

  7. As noted above, all send operations on the outbound status FD are
     done immediate with blocking.  In GPGME, this has never caused any
     problems.

  8. The ‘INQUIRE’ function can be handled in two ways: If the requested
     data is immediately available, the client can just send the data
     blockingly.  If the requested data needs to be fetched from a
     blocking source, a callback handler can be registered for the FD
     with the main event loop.  GPGME does not support the ‘INQUIRE’
     function, so we do not have any practical experience with this.

   Currently, the client can not cancel a pending operation gracefully.
It can, however, disconnect from the server at any time.  It is the
responsibility of the server to periodically send status messages to the
client to probe if the connection remains alive.

8.2 External I/O event loops in the server.
===========================================

Currently, no Assuan server exists which uses external I/O event loops.
However, the following guidelines should lead to a usable
implementation:

  1. For socket servers: You can not use ‘assuan_accept’, so you should
     just implement the bind/connect/listen/accept stage yourself.  You
     can register the listen FD with your main event loop, accept the
     connection when it becomes ready, and finally call
     ‘assuan_init_socket_server’ with the final argument being
     ‘ASSUAN_SOCKET_SERVER_ACCEPTED’ to create an Assuan context for
     this connection.  This way you can also handle multiple connections
     in parallel.  The reference implementation for this approach is
     DirMngr.

     For pipe servers: ‘assuan_init_pipe_server’ creates an Assuan
     context valid for the pipe FDs.

  2. Once you have a context for a single connection, you can get the
     inbound status FD with ‘assuan_get_active_fds’ (the first one
     returned is the status FD). This FD can be duplicated if it is
     convenient.  Every time the inbound status FD is readable, you
     should invoke the function ‘assuan_process_next’ (see below) to
     process the next incoming message.  ‘assuan_process_next’ processes
     as many status lines as can be received by a single ‘read’
     operation.  When it returns, the inbound status FD may still be
     readable, but Assuan does not check this.

     The function ‘assuan_process_next’ returns 0 if it can not make
     progress reliably, and it returns true in ‘done’ if the client
     closed the connection.  See below for more information on this
     function.

  3. The command will be dispatched by ‘assuan_process_next’ just as
     with ‘assuan_process’, however, you will want to implement the
     command handlers in such a way that they do not block.  For
     example, the command handler may just register the bulk data FDs
     with the main event loop and return.

     When the command is finished, irregardless if this happens directly
     in the command handler or later, you must call
     ‘assuan_process_done’ with an appropriate error value (or 0 for
     success) to return an appropriate status line to the client.  You
     can do this at the end of the command handler, for example by
     ending it with ‘return assuan_process_done (error_code);’.  Another
     possibility is to invoke ‘assuan_process_done’ from the place in
     the code which closes the last active bulk FD registered with the
     main event loop for this operation.

   It is not possible to use ‘assuan_inquire’ in a command handler, as
this function blocks on receiving the inquired data from the client.
Instead, the asynchronous version ‘assuan_inquire_ext’ needs to be used
(see below), which invokes a callback when the client provided the
inquired data.  A typical usage would be for the command handler to
register a continuation with ‘assuan_inquire_ext’ and return 0.
Eventually, the continuation would be invoked by ‘assuan_process_next’
when the client data arrived.  The continuation could complete the
command and eventually call ‘assuan_process_done’.

   Cancellation is supported by returning an appropriate error value to
the client with ‘assuan_process_done’.  For long running operations, the
server should send progress status messages to the client in regular
intervals to notice when the client disconnects.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_process_next (assuan_context_t CTX,
          int *DONE)
     This is the same as ‘assuan_process’ but the caller has to provide
     the outer loop.  He should loop as long as the return code is zero
     and DONE is false.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_process_done (assuan_context_t CTX,
          gpg_error_t RC)
     Finish a pending command and return the error code RC to the
     client.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_inquire_ext (assuan_context_t CTX,
          const char *KEYWORD, size_t MAXLEN,
          gpg_error_t (*CB) (void *cb_data, gpg_error_t rc, unsigned char *buffer, size_t buffer_len),
          void *CB_DATA)
     This is similar to ‘assuan_inquire’ but the caller has to provide
     the outer loop (using ‘assuan_process_next’).  The caller should
     specify a continuation with CB, which receives CB_DATA as its first
     argument, and the error value as well as the inquired data as its
     remaining arguments.

9 Utility functions
*******************

There are a lot of helper functions to make writing Assuan code easier.
Some of these functions provide information not available with the
general functions.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_write_status (assuan_context_t CTX,
          const char *KEYWORD, const char *TEXT)

     This is a convenience function for a server to send a status line.
     You need to pass it the KEYWORD and the content of the status line
     in TEXT.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_inquire (assuan_context_t CTX,
          const char *KEYWORD, unsigned char **R_BUFFER,
          size_t *R_LENGTH, size_t MAXLEN)

     A server may use this function to request specific data from a
     client.  This function sends an 'INQUIRE' command back to the
     client and returns the client's response in a newly allocated
     buffer.  You need to pass at least the server's context (CTX) and a
     description of the required data (KEYWORD).  All other parameters
     may be ‘NULL’ or ‘0’, but this is rarely useful.

     On success the result is stored in a newly allocated buffer stored
     at R_BUFFER.  The length of the data is stored at R_LENGTH.  If
     MAXLEN has not been given as ‘0’, it specifies an upper size limit
     of the expected data.  If the client returns too much data the
     function fails and an error with the error code
     ‘GPG_ERR_ASS_TOO_MUCH_DATA’ will be returned.

 -- Function: FILE* assuan_get_data_fp (assuan_context_t CTX)

     Return a stdio stream for the Assuan context CTX.  This stream may
     then be used for data output (assuan_write_data).  The stream is
     valid until the end of the current handler.  Calling ‘fclose’ for
     that stream is not required.  Assuan does all the buffering needed
     to insert the status line as well as the required line wrapping and
     quoting for data lines.

     This function is only available on systems supporting either
     ‘funopen’ or ‘fopencookie’.  If it is not supported ‘NULL’ is
     returned and ‘errno’ is set to ‘ENOSYS’.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_set_okay_line (assuan_context_t CTX,
          const char *LINE)

     Set the text used for the next ‘OK’ response to LINE.  This is
     sometimes useful to send additional human readable information
     along with the OK line.  The string is automatically reset at the
     end of the current handler.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_command_parse_fd (assuan_context_t CTX,
          char *LINE, assuan_fd_t *RFD)

     This is the core of the default ‘INPUT’ and ‘OUTPUT’ handler.  It
     may be used in custom commands as well to negotiate a file
     descriptor.  If LINE contains ‘FD=N’, it returns N in RFD assuming
     a local file descriptor.  If LINE contains just ‘FD’ it returns a
     file descriptor at RFD; this file descriptor needs to have been
     sent by the client right before using ‘assuan_sendfd’.

     On W32 systems the returned file descriptor is a system handle and
     not a libc low level I/O file descriptor.  Thus applications need
     to use ‘_open_osfhandle’ before they can pass this descriptor to
     standard functions like ‘fdopen’ or ‘dup’.

 -- Function: const char * assuan_get_command_name
          (assuan_context_t CTX)

     Return the name of the command currently processed by a handler.
     The returned string is valid until the next call to an Assuan
     function on the same context.  Returns ‘NULL’ if no handler is
     executed or the command is not known.

 -- Function: assuan_fd_t assuan_get_input_fd (assuan_context_t CTX)

     Return the file descriptor sent by the client using the last
     ‘INPUT’ command.  Returns ‘ASSUAN_INVALID_FD’ if no file descriptor
     is available.

 -- Function: assuan_fd_t assuan_get_output_fd (assuan_context_t CTX)

     Return the file descriptor sent by the client using the last
     ‘OUTPUT’ command.  Returns ‘ASSUAN_INVALID_FD’ if no file
     descriptor is available.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_close_input_fd (assuan_context_t CTX)

     Close the file descriptor set by the last ‘INPUT’ command.  This
     function has the advantage over a simple ‘close’ that it can do
     some sanity checks and make sure that a following
     ‘assuan_get_input_fd’ won't return an already closed descriptor.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_close_output_fd (assuan_context_t CTX)

     Close the file descriptor set by the last ‘OUTPUT’ command.  This
     function has the advantage over a simple ‘close’ that it can do
     some sanity checks and make sure that a following
     ‘assuan_get_input_fd’ won't return an already closed descriptor.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_set_error (assuan_context_t CTX,
          gpg_error_t ERR, const char *TEXT)
     This is a helper to provide a more descriptive error text with
     ‘ERR’ lines.  For this to work, the text needs to be stored in the
     context CTX while still being in the command handler.  This
     function is commonly called this way
            return assuan_set_error (ctx, err, "commands needs 5 arguments");
     The value ERR is passed through and thus the return value of the
     command handler in the example.  The provided text further explains
     that error to humans.

 -- Function: pid_t assuan_get_pid (assuan_context_t CTX)

     This function returns the pid of the connected connected peer.  If
     that pid is not known ‘ASSUAN_INVALID_PID’ is returned.  Note that
     it is not always possible to learn the pid of the other process.
     For a pipe based server the client knows it instantly and a
     mechanism is in place to let the server learn it.  For socket based
     servers the pid is only available on systems providing the
     ‘SO_PEERCRED’ socket option (1).

 -- Data type: assuan_peercred_t
     This structure is used to store the peer credentials.  The
     available members depend on the operating system.

     ‘pid_t pid’
          The process ID of the peer.

     ‘uid_t uid’
          The user ID of the peer process.

     ‘gid_t gid’
          The group ID of the peer process.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_get_peercred (assuan_context_t CTX,
          assuan_peercred_t *PEERCRED)
     Return user credentials of the peer.  This will work only on
     certain systems and only when connected over a socket.  On success,
     a pointer to the peer credentials is stored in PEERCRED.  The
     information is only valid as long as the state of the connection is
     unchanged (at least until the next assuan call to the same
     context).

     As of now only the server is able to retrieve this information.
     Note, that for getting the pid of the peer ‘assuan_get_pid’ is
     usually better suited.

 -- Function: int assuan_get_active_fds (assuan_context_t CTX, int WHAT,
          assuan_fd_t *FDARRAY, int FDARRAYSIZE)

     Return all active file descriptors for the context CTX.  This
     function can be used to select on the file descriptors and to call
     ‘assuan_process_next’ if there is an active one.  The first
     descriptor in the array is the one used for the command connection.
     Currently WHAT needs to be ‘0’ to return descriptors used for
     reading, ‘1’ will eventually be used to return descriptors used for
     writing.  FDARRAY is an array of integers provided by the caller;
     FDARRAYSIZE gives the size of that array.

     On success the number of active descriptors are returned.  These
     active descriptors are then stored in FDARRAY.  On error ‘-1’ is
     returned; the most likely reason for this is a too small FDARRAY.

     Note that on W32 systems the returned file descriptor is a system
     handle and not a libc low level I/O file descriptor.

 -- Function: int assuan_pending_line (assuan_context_t CTX)
     A call to this function return true if a full line has been
     buffered and thus an entire assuan line may be read without
     triggering any actual I/O.

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) to our knowledge only the Linux kernel has this feature

10 Socket wrapper functions
***************************

It is sometimes useful to support Unix domain sockets on Windows.  To do
this in a portable way, Assuan provides a set of wrapper functions which
may be used on any system but will enhance Windows to support these
socket types.  The actual implementation is based on local TCP sockets
and fully transparent for the client.  Server code needs to utilize two
extra functions to check the permissions.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_sock_init (void)
     Initialize the socket wrappers.  Must be called once at startup if
     any of the socket wrapper functions are used.

 -- Function: gpg_error_t assuan_sock_deinit (void)
     Deinitialize the socket wrappers.

 -- Function: int assuan_sock_close (assuan_fd_t FD)
     Wrapper for close which does a closesocket on Windows if needed.

 -- Function: assuan_fd_t assuan_sock_new (int DOMAIN, int TYPE,
          int PROTO);
     Wrapper around socket.

 -- Function: assuan_fd_t assuan_sock_accept (assuan_fd_t SOCKFD,
          struct sockaddr *ADDR, socklen_t *P_ADDRLEN)

     Wrapper around accept.

 -- Function: int assuan_sock_connect (assuan_fd_t SOCKFD,
          struct sockaddr *ADDR, int ADDRLEN)

     Wrapper around connect.  For Unix domain sockets under Windows this
     function also does a write immediately after the the connect to
     send the nonce as read from the socket's file.  Under Unix this
     function check whether the socket file is a redirection file and
     connects to the redirected socket instead; see
     ‘assuan_sock_set_sockaddr_un’ for details on the redirection file
     format.

 -- Function: int assuan_sock_connect_byname (const char * HOST,
          unsigned short PORT, int TIMEOUT, const char *CREDENTIALS,
          unsigned int FLAGS)

     Directly connect to PORT on HOST given as a name.  The current
     implementation requires that FLAGS has either ‘ASSUAN_SOCK_SOCKS’
     or ‘ASSUAN_SOCK_TOR’ set.  On success a new TCP STREAM socket is
     returned; on error ‘ASSUAN_INVALID_FD’ and ERRNO set.  If
     CREDENTIALS is not ‘NULL’, it is a string used for password based
     SOCKS authentication.  Username and password are separated by a
     colon.  TIMEOUT specifies timeout value (in miliseconds) for the
     connection.  TIMEOUT with zero means no timeout (for client side,
     the SOCKS server may timeout).  TIMEOUT with -1 means no wait.  To
     test whether the proxy is available HOST and PORT may be given as
     NULL/0: If the proxy is available the function returns a valid
     socket which is in the state after credentials sub-negotiation.
     The caller now knows that the SOCKS proxy is available and has been
     authenticated; normally the caller closes the socket then.

 -- Function: int assuan_sock_bind ( assuan_fd_t SOCKFD,
          struct sockaddr *ADDR, int ADDRLEN)

     Wrapper around bind.  Under Windows this creates a file and writes
     the port number and a random nonce to this file.

 -- Function: int assuan_sock_set_sockaddr_un ( const char *FNAME,
          struct sockaddr *ADDR, int *R_REDIRECTED)

     This is a helper function to initialize the Unix socket domain
     address structure ADDR and store the file name FNAME there.  If
     R_REDIRECTED is not NULL the function checks whether FNAME already
     exists, is a regular file, and not a socket.  In that case FNAME is
     read to see whether this is a redirection to a socket file.  If
     that is the case 1 is stored at R_REDIRECTED.  If the file does not
     look like a redirection file 0 will be stored there and FNAME will
     be used in the regular way.

     The format of a redirection file is

          %Assuan%
          socket=NAME

     With NAME being is the actual socket to use.  No white spaces are
     allowed, both lines must be terminated by a single linefeed, and
     extra lines are not allowed.  Environment variables are interpreted
     in NAME if given in ‘${VAR}’ notation.  No escape characters are
     defined; if the string ‘${’ shall be used in file name, an
     environment variable with that content may be used.  The length of
     the redirection file is limited to 511 bytes which is more than
     sufficient for any known implementation of Unix domain sockets.

 -- Function: int assuan_sock_get_nonce ( struct sockaddr *ADDR,
          int ADDRLEN, assuan_sock_nonce_t *NONCE)

     This is used by the server after a bind to return the random nonce.
     To keep the code readable this may also be used on POSIX system.

 -- Function: int assuan_sock_check_nonce ( assuan_fd_t FD,
          assuan_sock_nonce_t *NONCE)

     If the option ‘ASSUAN_SOCKET_SERVER_ACCEPTED’ has been used,
     Libassuan has no way to check the nonce of the server.  Thus an
     explicit check of the saved nonce using this function is required.
     If this function fails the server should immediately drop the
     connection.  This function may not be used if Libassuan does the
     accept call itself (i.e., ‘ASSUAN_SOCKET_SERVER_ACCEPTED’ has not
     been used) because in this case Libassuan calls this function
     internally.  See also ‘assuan_set_sock_nonce’.

     Actually this mechanism is only required on Windows but for
     cleanness of code it may be used on POSIX systems as well, where
     this function is a nop.

   To control certain properties of the wrapper two additional functions
are provided:

 -- Function: int assuan_sock_set_flag ( assuan_fd_t FD,
          const char *NAME, int VALUE)

     Set the flags NAME for socket FD to VALUE.  See below for a list of
     valid names.  Returns 0 on success; on failure sets ERRNO and
     returns -1.

 -- Function: int assuan_sock_get_flag ( assuan_fd_t FD,
          const char *NAME, int *R_VALUE)

     Store the current value of the flag NAME for socket FD at R_VALUE.
     See below for a list of valid names.  Returns 0 on success; on
     failure sets ERRNO and returns -1.

   The supported flags are:

‘cygwin’
     This flag has an effect only on Windows.  If the value is 1, the
     socket is set into Cygwin mode so that Cygwin clients can connect
     to such a socket.  This flag needs to be set before a bind and
     should not be changed during the lifetime of the socket.  There is
     no need to set this flag for connecting to a Cygwin style socket
     because no state is required at the client.  On non-Windows
     platforms setting this flag is ignored, reading the flag always
     returns a value of 0.

‘tor-mode’
‘socks’
     If VALUE is 1 globally enable SOCKS5 mode for new connections using
     IPv6 or IPv4.  FD must be set to ‘ASSUAN_INVALID_FD’ A future
     extension may allow to disable SOCKS5 mode for a specified socket
     but globally disabling SOCKS5 mode is not possible.  Using the flag
     "tor-mode" expects the SOCKS5 proxy to listen on port 9050, the
     flag "socks" expects the proxy to listen on port 1080.

     Connections to the loopback address are not routed though the SOCKS
     proxy.  UDP requests are not supported at all.  The proxy will be
     connected at address 127.0.0.1; an IPv6 connection to the proxy is
     not yet supported.

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Index
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* Menu:

* AM_PATH_LIBASSUAN:                     Automake.           (line  384)
* assuan_accept:                         Server code.        (line 1284)
* assuan_begin_confidential:             Contexts.           (line  702)
* assuan_close_input_fd:                 Utilities.          (line 1576)
* assuan_close_output_fd:                Utilities.          (line 1583)
* assuan_command_parse_fd:               Utilities.          (line 1541)
* assuan_context_t:                      Data Types.         (line  429)
* assuan_ctx_set_system_hooks:           Contexts.           (line  812)
* assuan_end_confidential:               Contexts.           (line  709)
* assuan_fd_t:                           Data Types.         (line  436)
* assuan_fdopen:                         Data Types.         (line  441)
* assuan_flag_t:                         Contexts.           (line  674)
* assuan_get_active_fds:                 Utilities.          (line 1637)
* assuan_get_assuan_log_prefix:          Default Log Handler.
                                                             (line  571)
* assuan_get_assuan_log_stream:          Default Log Handler.
                                                             (line  585)
* assuan_get_command_name:               Utilities.          (line 1556)
* assuan_get_data_fp:                    Utilities.          (line 1520)
* assuan_get_flag:                       Contexts.           (line  698)
* assuan_get_gpg_err_source:             Initializing the library.
                                                             (line  514)
* assuan_get_input_fd:                   Utilities.          (line 1564)
* assuan_get_log_cb:                     Initializing the library.
                                                             (line  552)
* assuan_get_malloc_hooks:               Initializing the library.
                                                             (line  497)
* assuan_get_output_fd:                  Utilities.          (line 1570)
* assuan_get_peercred:                   Utilities.          (line 1624)
* assuan_get_pid:                        Utilities.          (line 1601)
* assuan_get_pointer:                    Contexts.           (line  655)
* assuan_init_pipe_server:               Server code.        (line 1097)
* assuan_init_socket_server:             Server code.        (line 1112)
* assuan_inquire:                        Utilities.          (line 1502)
* assuan_inquire_ext:                    External I/O Loop Server.
                                                             (line 1478)
* assuan_malloc_hooks_t:                 Initializing the library.
                                                             (line  485)
* assuan_new:                            Contexts.           (line  609)
* assuan_new_ext:                        Contexts.           (line  629)
* assuan_peercred_t:                     Utilities.          (line 1611)
* assuan_pending_line:                   Utilities.          (line 1656)
* assuan_pipe_connect:                   Client code.        (line  909)
* assuan_process:                        Server code.        (line 1294)
* assuan_process_done:                   External I/O Loop Server.
                                                             (line 1473)
* assuan_process_next:                   External I/O Loop Server.
                                                             (line 1467)
* assuan_read_line:                      Reading and Writing.
                                                             (line  836)
* assuan_receivefd:                      Client code.        (line 1018)
* assuan_register_bye_notify:            Server code.        (line 1189)
* assuan_register_cancel_notify:         Server code.        (line 1201)
* assuan_register_command:               Server code.        (line 1163)
* assuan_register_input_notify:          Server code.        (line 1219)
* assuan_register_option_handler:        Server code.        (line 1207)
* assuan_register_output_notify:         Server code.        (line 1232)
* assuan_register_post_cmd_notify:       Server code.        (line 1180)
* assuan_register_reset_notify:          Server code.        (line 1195)
* assuan_release:                        Contexts.           (line  640)
* assuan_send_data:                      Reading and Writing.
                                                             (line  859)
* assuan_sendfd:                         Client code.        (line 1005)
* assuan_set_assuan_log_prefix:          Default Log Handler.
                                                             (line  567)
* assuan_set_assuan_log_stream:          Default Log Handler.
                                                             (line  576)
* assuan_set_error:                      Utilities.          (line 1590)
* assuan_set_flag:                       Contexts.           (line  668)
* assuan_set_gpg_err_source:             Initializing the library.
                                                             (line  506)
* assuan_set_hello_line:                 Server code.        (line 1245)
* assuan_set_io_monitor:                 Reading and Writing.
                                                             (line  895)
* assuan_set_log_cb:                     Initializing the library.
                                                             (line  547)
* assuan_set_log_stream:                 Default Log Handler.
                                                             (line  592)
* assuan_set_malloc_hooks:               Initializing the library.
                                                             (line  488)
* assuan_set_okay_line:                  Utilities.          (line 1533)
* assuan_set_pointer:                    Contexts.           (line  648)
* assuan_set_sock_nonce:                 Server code.        (line 1133)
* assuan_set_system_hooks:               Contexts.           (line  799)
* assuan_sock_accept:                    Socket wrappers.    (line 1689)
* assuan_sock_bind:                      Socket wrappers.    (line 1724)
* assuan_sock_check_nonce:               Socket wrappers.    (line 1762)
* assuan_sock_close:                     Socket wrappers.    (line 1682)
* assuan_sock_connect:                   Socket wrappers.    (line 1694)
* assuan_sock_connect_byname:            Socket wrappers.    (line 1705)
* assuan_sock_deinit:                    Socket wrappers.    (line 1679)
* assuan_sock_get_flag:                  Socket wrappers.    (line 1788)
* assuan_sock_get_nonce:                 Socket wrappers.    (line 1756)
* assuan_sock_init:                      Socket wrappers.    (line 1675)
* assuan_sock_new:                       Socket wrappers.    (line 1685)
* assuan_sock_set_flag:                  Socket wrappers.    (line 1781)
* assuan_sock_set_sockaddr_un:           Socket wrappers.    (line 1730)
* assuan_sock_set_system_hooks:          Contexts.           (line  804)
* assuan_socket_connect:                 Client code.        (line  952)
* assuan_transact:                       Client code.        (line  969)
* assuan_write_line:                     Reading and Writing.
                                                             (line  847)
* assuan_write_status:                   Utilities.          (line 1495)
* gpg_error_t (*assuan_handler_t) (assuan_context_t CTX, char *LINE): Server code.
                                                             (line 1157)
* int (*assuan_log_cb_t) (assuan_context_t CTX, void *HOOK_VALUE, unsigned int CAT, const char *MSG): Initializing the library.
                                                             (line  521)
* introduction:                          Top.                (line   66)
* LGPL, GNU Lesser General Public License: Library Copying.  (line 1824)
* struct assuan_malloc_hooks:            Initializing the library.
                                                             (line  468)
* struct assuan_system_hooks:            Contexts.           (line  716)
* unsigned int (*assuan_io_monitor_t) (assuan_context_t CTX, void *HOOK_VALUE, int INOUT, const char *LINE, size_t LINELEN): Reading and Writing.
                                                             (line  878)

