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Network Working Group                                       T. Dreibholz
Internet-Draft                                                 SimulaMet
Intended status: Experimental                              July 28, 2020
Expires: January 29, 2021

                            NEAT Sockets API
                 draft-dreibholz-taps-neat-socketapi-07

Abstract

   This document describes a BSD Sockets-like API on top of the
   callback-based NEAT User API.  This facilitates porting existing
   applications to use a subset of NEAT's functionality.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     1.1.  Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   2.  Initialisation and Clean-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.1.  nsa_init()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.2.  nsa_cleanup() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.3.  nsa_map_socket()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.4.  nsa_unmap_socket()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   3.  Connection Establishment and Teardown . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     3.1.  nsa_socket()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     3.2.  nsa_socketpair()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.3.  nsa_close() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.4.  nsa_fcntl() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.5.  nsa_bind()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.6.  nsa_bindx() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.7.  nsa_bindn() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     3.8.  nsa_connect() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     3.9.  nsa_connectx()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.10. nsa_connectn()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     3.11. nsa_listen()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     3.12. nsa_accept()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     3.13. nsa_accept4() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     3.14. nsa_shutdown()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   4.  Options Handling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     4.1.  nsa_getsockopt()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     4.2.  nsa_setsockopt()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     4.3.  nsa_opt_info()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   5.  Security  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     5.1.  nsa_set_secure_identity() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     5.2.  ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
   6.  Input/Output Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     6.1.  nsa_write() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     6.2.  nsa_writev()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
     6.3.  nsa_pwrite()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
     6.4.  nsa_pwrite64()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
     6.5.  nsa_pwritev() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     6.6.  nsa_pwritev64() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     6.7.  nsa_send()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     6.8.  nsa_sendto()  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     6.9.  nsa_sendmsg() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     6.10. nsa_sendv() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19