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+/h0 [()(Table of Contents)] D
+/h1 [(0.1\240\240)(XPA: Public Access to Data and Algorithms)] D
+/h2 [(0.2\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h3 [(0.3\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h4 [(0.3.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h5 [(0.4\240\240)(XPAIntro: Introduction to the XPA Messaging System)] D
+/h6 [(0.5\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h7 [(0.6\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h8 [(0.6.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: March 10, 2007)] D
+/h9 [(0.7\240\240)(XPATemplate: Access Point Names and Templates)] D
+/h10 [(0.8\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h11 [(0.9\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h12 [(0.9.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h13 [(0.10\240\240)(XPACommon: Getting Common Information About Access Points)] D
+/h14 [(0.11\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h15 [(0.12\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h16 [(0.12.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h17 [(0.13\240\240)(XPAMethod: XPA Communication Methods)] D
+/h18 [(0.14\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h19 [(0.15\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h20 [(0.15.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h21 [(0.16\240\240)(XPAInet: XPA Communication Between Hosts)] D
+/h22 [(0.17\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h23 [(0.18\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h24 [(0.19\240\240)(Manual Registration)] D
+/h25 [(0.20\240\240)(Remote Registration)] D
+/h26 [(0.21\240\240)(XPANS Proxy Registration)] D
+/h27 [(0.21.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h28 [(0.22\240\240)(XPAUsers: Distinguishing Users)] D
+/h29 [(0.23\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h30 [(0.24\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h31 [(0.24.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h32 [(0.25\240\240)(XPA Programs)] D
+/h33 [(0.26\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h34 [(0.27\240\240)(xpaset: send data to one or more XPA servers)] D
+/h35 [(0.28\240\240)(xpaget: retrieve data from one or more XPA servers)] D
+/h36 [(0.29\240\240)(xpainfo: send short message to one or more XPA servers)] D
+/h37 [(0.30\240\240)(xpaaccess: see if template matches registered XPA access points)] D
+/h38 [(0.30.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h39 [(0.31\240\240)(xpamb: the XPA Message Bus)] D
+/h40 [(0.32\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h41 [(0.33\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h42 [(0.34\240\240)(Options)] D
+/h43 [(0.34.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h44 [(0.35\240\240)(xpans: the XPA Name Server)] D
+/h45 [(0.36\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h46 [(0.36.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: January 24, 2005)] D
+/h47 [(0.37\240\240)(XPAServer: The XPA Server-side Programming Interface)] D
+/h48 [(0.38\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h49 [(0.39\240\240)(Introduction to XPA Server Programming)] D
+/h50 [(0.40\240\240)(Introduction)] D
+/h51 [(0.41\240\240)(XPANew: create a new XPA access point)] D
+/h52 [(0.42\240\240)(XPACmdNew: create a new XPA public access point for commands)] D
+/h53 [(0.43\240\240)(XPACmdAdd: add a command to an XPA command public access point)] D
+/h54 [(0.44\240\240)(XPACmdDel: remove a command from an XPA command public access point)] D
+/h55 [(0.45\240\240)(XPAInfoNew: define an XPA info public access point)] D
+/h56 [(0.46\240\240)(XPAFree: remove an XPA public access point)] D
+/h57 [(0.47\240\240)(XPAMainLoop: optional main loop for XPA)] D
+/h58 [(0.48\240\240)(XPAPoll: execute existing XPA requests)] D
+/h59 [(0.49\240\240)(XPAAtExit: install exit handler)] D
+/h60 [(0.50\240\240)(XPACleanup: release reserved XPA memory)] D
+/h61 [(0.51\240\240)(XPA Server Callback Macros)] D
+/h62 [(0.52\240\240)(XPA Race Conditions)] D
+/h63 [(0.52.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h64 [(0.53\240\240)(Xpaoom: What happens when XPA runs out of memory?)] D
+/h65 [(0.54\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h66 [(0.55\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h67 [(0.55.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: April 7, 2009)] D
+/h68 [(0.56\240\240)(XPAClient: The XPA Client-side Programming Interface)] D
+/h69 [(0.57\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h70 [(0.58\240\240)(Introduction to XPA Client Programming)] D
+/h71 [(0.59\240\240)(Introduction)] D
+/h72 [(0.60\240\240)(XPAGet: retrieve data from one or more XPA servers)] D
+/h73 [(0.61\240\240)(XPASet: send data to one or more XPA servers)] D
+/h74 [(0.62\240\240)(XPAInfo: send short message to one or more XPA servers)] D
+/h75 [(0.63\240\240)(XPAGetFd: retrieve data from one or more XPA servers and write to files)] D
+/h76 [(0.64\240\240)(XPASetFd: send data from stdin to one or more XPA servers)] D
+/h77 [(0.65\240\240)(XPAOpen: allocate a persistent client handle)] D
+/h78 [(0.66\240\240)(XPAClose: close a persistent XPA client handle)] D
+/h79 [(0.67\240\240)(XPANSLookup: lookup registered XPA access points)] D
+/h80 [(0.68\240\240)(XPAAccess: return XPA access points matching template \(XPA 2.1 and above\))] D
+/h81 [(0.68.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: March 10, 2007)] D
+/h82 [(0.69\240\240)(XPAXt: the XPA Interface to Xt \(X Windows\))] D
+/h83 [(0.70\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h84 [(0.71\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h85 [(0.71.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h86 [(0.72\240\240)(XPATcl: the XPA Interface to the Tcl/Tk Environment)] D
+/h87 [(0.73\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h88 [(0.74\240\240)(Server Routines)] D
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+/h90 [(0.76\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h91 [(0.77\240\240)(XPANew)] D
+/h92 [(0.78\240\240)(XPARec)] D
+/h93 [(0.78.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
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+/h95 [(0.80\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h96 [(0.81\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h97 [(0.81.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: December 23, 2009)] D
+/h98 [(0.82\240\240)(XPAAcl: Access Control for XPA Messaging)] D
+/h99 [(0.83\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h100 [(0.84\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h101 [(0.84.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h102 [(0.85\240\240)(XPA ChangeLog)] D
+/h103 [(0.86\240\240)(Public Release 2.1.15 \(July 23, 2013\))] D
+/h104 [(0.87\240\240)(Public Release 2.1.14 \(June 7, 2012\))] D
+/h105 [(0.88\240\240)(Public Release 2.1.13 \(April 14, 2011\))] D
+/h106 [(0.89\240\240)(Public Release 2.1.12 \(January 26, 2010\))] D
+/h107 [(0.90\240\240)(Public Release 2.1.11 \(December 7, 2009\))] D
+/h108 [(0.91\240\240)(Public Release 2.1.10 \(September 1, 2009\))] D
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+/h110 [(0.93\240\240)(Public Release 2.1.8 \(1 November 2007\))] D
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+/h112 [(0.95\240\240)(Patch Release 2.1.6 \(4 May 2005\))] D
+/h113 [(0.96\240\240)(Patch Release 2.1.5 \(12 January 2004\))] D
+/h114 [(0.97\240\240)(Patch Release 2.1.4 \(24 March 2003\))] D
+/h115 [(0.98\240\240)(Patch Release 2.1.3 \(26 September 2002\))] D
+/h116 [(0.99\240\240)(Patch Release 2.1.2 \(18 July 2002\))] D
+/h117 [(0.100\240\240)(Patch Release 2.1.1 \(20 June 2002\))] D
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+/h125 [(0.108\240\240)(Beta Release 2.1.0b10 \(31 January 2002\))] D
+/h126 [(0.109\240\240)(Beta Release 2.1.0b9 \(26 January 2002\))] D
+/h127 [(0.110\240\240)(Beta Release 2.1.0b8 \(4 January 2002\))] D
+/h128 [(0.111\240\240)(Beta Release 2.1.0b7 \(21 December 2001\))] D
+/h129 [(0.112\240\240)(Beta Release 2.1.0b6 \(29 October 2001\))] D
+/h130 [(0.113\240\240)(Beta Release 2.1.0b5 \(22 October 2001\))] D
+/h131 [(0.114\240\240)(Beta Release 2.1.0b4 \(24 September 2001\))] D
+/h132 [(0.115\240\240)(Beta Release 2.1.0b3 \(6 September 2001\))] D
+/h133 [(0.116\240\240)(Beta Release 2.1.0b2 \(17 August 2001\))] D
+/h134 [(0.117\240\240)(Beta Release 2.1.0b1 \(6 August 2001\))] D
+/h135 [(0.118\240\240)(Patch Release 2.0.5 \(10 November 2000\))] D
+/h136 [(0.119\240\240)(Patch Release 2.0.4 \(20 September 2000\))] D
+/h137 [(0.120\240\240)(Patch Release 2.0.3 \(15 June 2000\))] D
+/h138 [(0.121\240\240)(Patch Release 2.0.2 \(9 September 1999\))] D
+/h139 [(0.122\240\240)(Patch Release 2.0.1 \(6 August 1999\))] D
+/h140 [(0.123\240\240)(Public Release 2.0 \(27 May 1999\))] D
+/h141 [(0.123.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: 22 April 2002)] D
+/h142 [(0.124\240\240)(XPACode: Where to Find Example/Test Code)] D
+/h143 [(0.125\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h144 [(0.126\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h145 [(0.126.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h146 [(0.127\240\240)(XPA Changes: Changes For Users from XPA 1.0 and 2.0)] D
+/h147 [(0.128\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h148 [(0.129\240\240)(Description)] D
+/h149 [(0.129.0.0.1\240\240)(Last updated: September 10, 2003)] D
+/h150 [(0.130\240\240)(XPAConvert: Converting the XPA API to 2.0)] D
+/h151 [(0.131\240\240)(Summary)] D
+/h152 [(0.132\240\240)(Description)] D
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+/h155 [(0.134\240\240)(Summary)] D
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+)0 2 0 H(XPA:)WB 47 Sn()WB 1 Sn( Public Access to Data and Algorithms)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 1 H(Summary)WB 48 Sn()EH(
+This document is the Table of Contents for XPA.
+
+
+)0 2 2 H(Description)WB 49 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many
+kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It
+also provides an easy way for users to communicate with XPA-enabled
+programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing
+such commands in scripts. Because XPA works both at the programming
+level and the shell level, it is a powerful tool for unifying any
+analysis environment: users and programmers have great flexibility in
+choosing the best level or levels at which to access XPA services, and
+client access can be extended or modified easily at any time.
+
+)0 P(A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of
+public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with
+other client programs \201and users\202. Using standard TCP sockets as a
+transport mechanism, XPA supports both single-point and broadcast
+messaging to and from these servers. It supports direct communication
+between clients and servers, or indirect communication via an
+intermediate message bus emulation program. Host-based access control
+is implemented, as is as the ability to communicate with XPA servers
+across a network.
+
+)0 P(XPA implements a layered interface that is designed to be useful both
+to software developers and to users. The interface consists of a
+library of XPA client and server routines for use in C/C++ programs and
+a suite of high-level user programs built on top of these libraries.
+Using the XPA library, access points can be added to Tcl/Tk programs,
+Xt programs, or to Unix programs that use the XPA event loop or any
+event loop based on select\201\202. Client access subroutines can be added
+to any Tcl/Tk, Xt, or Unix program. Client access also is supported at
+the command line via a suite of high-level programs.
+
+)0 P(Choose from the following topics:
+
+)UL(
+)-1 LI()0 2 1 A(Introduction to XPA)2 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 3 1 A(Access Point Names and Templates)3 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 4 1 A(Getting Common Information About Access Points)4 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 5 1 A(Communication Methods)5 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 6 1 A(Communication Between Hosts)6 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 7 1 A(Distinguishing Users)7 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+
+)-1 LI()0 8 1 A(XPA User Programs)8 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)UL()-1 LI()0 9 1 A(xpaget: get data and info)9 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 10 1 A(xpaset: send data and info)10 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 11 1 A(xpainfo: send info alert)11 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 12 1 A(xpaaccess: get access point info)12 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 13 1 A(xpamb: message bus emulation)13 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 14 1 A(xpans: the XPA name server)14 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)LU(
+
+)-1 LI()0 15 1 A(XPA Server Routines)15 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)UL()-1 LI()0 16 1 A(XPANew: define a new access point)16 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 17 1 A(XPACmdNew: define a new command access point)17 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 18 1 A(XPACmdAdd: add a command)18 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 19 1 A(XPACmdDel: delete a command)19 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 20 1 A(XPAInfoNew: define an info access point)20 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 21 1 A(XPAFree: free an access point)21 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 22 1 A(XPAMainLoop: event loop for select server)22 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 23 1 A(XPAPoll: poll for XPA events)23 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 24 1 A(XPACleanup: release reserved XPA memory)24 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 25 1 A(XPA Server Macros: accessing structure internals)25 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 26 1 A(XPA Race Conditions: how to avoid them)26 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 27 1 A(XPA Out of Memory \201OOM\202 errors)27 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)LU(
+
+)-1 LI()0 28 1 A(XPA Client Routines)28 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)UL()-1 LI()0 29 1 A(XPAOpen: open a persistent client connection)29 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 30 1 A(XPAClose: close persistent client connection)30 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 31 1 A(XPAGet: get data)31 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 32 1 A(XPASet: send data or commands)32 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 33 1 A(XPAInfo: send an info alert)33 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 34 1 A(XPAGetFd: get data and write to an fd)34 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 35 1 A(XPASetFd: read data from and fd and send)35 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 36 1 A(XPANSLookup: look up an access point)36 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 37 1 A(XPAAccess: get access info)37 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 38 1 A(The XPA/Xt Interface: Xt interface to XPA)38 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 39 1 A(The XPA/Tcl Interface: Tcl interface to XPA)39 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)LU(
+
+)-1 LI( Tailoring the XPA Environment
+)UL()-1 LI()0 40 1 A(Environment Variables)40 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 41 1 A(Access Control)41 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)LU(
+
+)-1 LI( Miscellaneous
+)UL(
+)-1 LI()0 42 1 A(XPA ChangeLog)42 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)-1 LI()0 43 1 A(Where to Find Example/Test Code)43 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)-1 LI()0 44 1 A(User Changes Between XPA 1.0 and 2.0)44 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)-1 LI()0 45 1 A(API Changes Between XPA 1.0 and 2.0)45 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)-1 LI()0 46 1 A(What Does XPA Stand For, Anyway?)46 1 TN TL()Ec /AF f D()LU(
+)LU(
+
+
+
+)0 5 3 H(Last)WB 50 Sn( updated: September 10, 2003)EH(
+)WB NL NP Ep ET /Tc f D
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (intro.html) D
+/Ti (Introduction to XPA) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 2 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 4 H(XPAIntro:)WB 54 Sn()WB 51 Sn( Introduction to the XPA Messaging System)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 5 H(Summary)WB 55 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(A brief introduction to the XPA messaging system, which provides
+seamless communication between all kinds of Unix event-driven
+programs, including X programs, Tcl/Tk programs, and Perl programs.
+
+
+)0 2 6 H(Description)WB 56 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between all
+kinds of Unix programs, including X programs, Tcl/Tk programs, and
+Perl programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate
+with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in
+the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. Because XPA works
+both at the programming level and the shell level, it is a powerful
+tool for unifying any analysis environment: users and programmers have
+great flexibility in choosing the best level or levels at which to
+access XPA services, and client access can be extended or modified
+easily at any time.
+
+)0 P(A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of
+public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with
+other client programs \201and users\202. Using standard TCP sockets as
+a transport mechanism, XPA supports both single-point and broadcast
+messaging to and from these servers. It supports direct communication
+between clients and servers, or indirect communication via an
+intermediate message bus emulation program. Host-based access control
+is implemented, as is as the ability to communicate with XPA servers
+across a network.
+
+)0 P(XPA implements a layered interface that is designed to be useful both
+to software developers and to users. The interface consists of a
+library of XPA client and server routines for use in programs and a
+suite of high-level user programs built on top of these libraries.
+Using the XPA library, access points can be added to
+)0 52 1 A(Tcl/Tk)52 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+programs,
+)0 53 1 A(Xt)53 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+programs, or to Unix programs that use the XPA event loop or any
+event loop based on select\201\202. Client access subroutines can be added
+to any Tcl/Tk or Unix program. Client access also is supported at the
+command line via a suite of high-level programs.
+
+)0 P(The major components of the XPA layered interface are:
+)UL()-1 LI(A set of XPA server routines, centered on
+)0 16 1 A(XPANew\201\202,)16 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+which are used by XPA server programs to tag public access points with
+string identifiers and to register send and receive callbacks for
+these access points.
+
+)-1 LI(A set of XPA client routines, centered on the
+)0 32 1 A(XPASet\201\202)32 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+and
+)0 31 1 A(XPAGet\201\202,)31 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+which are used by external client applications to exchange data and
+commands with an XPA server.
+
+)-1 LI(High-level programs, centered on
+)0 10 1 A(xpaset)10 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+and
+)0 9 1 A(xpaget,)9 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+which allow data
+and information to be exchanged with XPA server programs from the
+command line and from scripts. These programs have the command syntax:
+) 2 35 PR( [data] | xpaset [qualifiers ...]
+ xpaget [qualifiers ...])RP(
+)-1 LI(An XPA name server program,
+)0 14 1 A(xpans,)14 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+through which XPA access point names are
+registered by servers and distributed to clients.)LU(
+
+)0 P(Defining an XPA access point is easy: a server application calls
+)0 16 1 A(XPANew\201\202,)16 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)0 17 1 A(XPACmdNew\201\202,)17 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+or the experimental
+)0 20 1 A(XPAInfoNew\201\202)20 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+routine to
+create a named public access point. An XPA service can specify "send"
+and "receive" callback procedures \201or an "info" procedure in the case
+of XPAInfoNew\201\202\202 to be executed by the program when an external
+process either sends data or commands to this access point or requests
+data or information from this access point. Either of the callbacks
+can be omitted, so that a particular access point can be specified as
+read-only, read-write, or write-only. Application-specific client
+data can be associated with these callbacks. Having defined one or
+more public access points in this way, an XPA server program enters
+its usual event loop \201or uses the standard XPA event loop\202.
+
+)0 P(Clients communicate with these XPA public access points
+using programs such as
+)0 9 1 A(xpaget)9 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(,
+)0 10 1 A(xpaset)10 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(, and
+)0 11 1 A(xpainfo)11 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+\201at the command line\202,
+or routines such as
+)0 31 1 A(XPAGet\201\202,)31 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+)0 32 1 A(XPASet\201\202,)32 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+and
+)0 33 1 A(XPAInfo\201\202)33 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+within a program. Both methods require specification of the name of
+the access point. The xpaget program returns data or other
+information from an XPA server to its standard output, while the
+xpaset program sends data or commands from its standard input to an
+XPA application. The corresponding API routines set/get data to/from
+memory, returning error messages and other info as needed. If a
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+is used to specify the access point name \201e.g., "ds9*"\202, then
+communication will take place with all servers matching that template.
+
+)0 P(Please note that XPA currently is not thread-safe. All XPA calls must be
+in the same thread.
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 7 H(Last)WB 57 Sn( updated: March 10, 2007)EH(
+
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
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+/Ti (Access Point Names and Templates) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 3 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 8 H(XPATemplate:)WB 59 Sn()WB 58 Sn( Access Point Names and Templates)EA()EH(
+
+)0 2 9 H(Summary)WB 60 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(XPA access points are composed of two parts: a general class and a
+specific name. Both parts accept template characters so that you
+can send/retrieve data to/from multiple servers at one time.
+
+
+)0 2 10 H(Description)WB 61 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(When XPA servers call
+)0 16 1 A(XPANew\201\202,)16 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+or
+)0 17 1 A(XPACmdNew\201\202)17 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+to define XPA access points, they specify a string identifier composed of a
+class and a name. When clients communicate with XPA access points,
+they specify which access points to communicate with using
+an identifier of the form:
+) 1 12 PR( class:name)RP(
+All registered XPA access points that match the specified identifier
+will be available for communication \201subject to access control rules,
+etc.\202
+
+)0 P(As of XPA 2.1.5, the length of both the class and name designations are
+limited to 1024 characters.
+
+)0 P(The XPA class:name identifier actually is a template: it accepts wild
+cards in its syntax, so a single specifier can match more than one XPA
+access point. \201Note that the class is optional and defaults to "*".\202
+The allowed syntax for clients to specify the class:name template is
+of the form shown below. \201Note that "*" is used to denote a generic
+wild card, but other wild cards characters are supported, as described
+below\202.
+) 7 46 PR( template explanation
+ -------- -----------
+ class:name exact match of class and name
+ name match any class with this name
+ *:name match any class with this name
+ class:* match any name of this class
+ *:* match any access point)RP(
+)0 P(In general, the following wild-cards can be applied to class and name:
+) 5 58 PR( wildcard explanation
+ -------- -----------
+ ? match any character, but there must be one
+ * match anything, or nothing
+ [...] match an inclusive set)RP(
+)0 P(Although the class:name template normally is used to refer to XPA
+access points, these also can be specified using their individual
+socket identifiers. For inet sockets, the socket identifier is
+)BD(ip:port)ES(, where ip can be the DNS-registered name,
+the ASCII IP number \201e.g. 123.45.67.890\202 or the hex IP number
+\201e.g. 838f3a60\202. For unix sockets, the identifier is the )BD(socket file
+name)ES(. These socket identifiers are displayed as the fourth argument
+in the xpans display of registered access points. For example,
+consider the ds9 program started using inet sockets. The xpans name
+server will register something like this:
+) 2 40 PR( csh> xpaget xpans
+ DS9 ds9 gs saord.harvard.edu:3236 eric)RP(
+You can access ds9 using ip:3236 in any of the three forms:
+) 8 37 PR( csh> xpaget saord:3236 file
+ /home/eric/data/snr.ev
+
+ csh> xpaget 123.45.67.890:3236 file
+ /home/eric/data/snr.ev
+
+ csh> xpaget 838f3a60:3236 file
+ /home/eric/data/snr.ev)RP(
+In the case of unix sockets, the socket identifier is a file:
+) 5 41 PR( csh> xpaget xpans
+ DS9 ds9 gs /tmp/.xpa/DS9_ds9.2631 eric
+
+ csh> xpaget /tmp/.xpa/DS9_ds9.2631 file
+ /home/eric/data/snr.ev)RP(
+This feature can be useful in distinguishing between multiple
+instances of a program that all have the same class:name designation.
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 11 H(Last)WB 62 Sn( updated: September 10, 2003)EH(
+
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (info.html) D
+/Ti (Getting Common Information About Access Points) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 4 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 12 H(XPACommon:)WB 64 Sn()WB 63 Sn( Getting Common Information About Access Points)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 13 H(Summary)WB 65 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(There are various kinds of generic information you can retrieve about
+an XPA access point by using the xpaget command.
+
+
+)0 2 14 H(Description)WB 66 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(You can find out which XPA access points have been registered with
+the currently running
+)0 14 1 A(XPA name server)14 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+by executing the
+)0 9 1 A(xpaget)9 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+command to retrieve info from the XPA name server:
+) 1 14 PR( xpaget xpans)RP(
+If, for example, the
+)0 43 1 A(stest)43 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( test server program
+is running, the following XPA access points will be returned \201the specifics
+of the returned info will vary for different machines and users\202:
+) 4 33 PR( XPA xpa gs 838e2f67:1262 eric
+ XPA xpa1 gs 838e2f67:1266 eric
+ XPA c_xpa gs 838e2f67:1267 eric
+ XPA i_xpa i 838e2f67:1268 eric)RP(
+Note that access to this information is subject to the usual
+)0 41 1 A(XPA Access Control)41 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( restrictions.
+
+)0 P(Each XPA access point supports a number of reserved sub-commands that provide
+access to different kinds of information, e.g. the access control for
+that access point. These sub-commands can be executed by using
+)0 10 1 A(xpaset)10 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+or
+)0 9 1 A(xpaget)9 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+at the command line, or
+)0 31 1 A(XPAGet\201\202)31 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+or
+)0 32 1 A(XPASet\201\202)32 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+in programs, e.g:
+) 5 30 PR( xpaget ds9 -acl
+ xpaget ds9 -help
+ xpaget ds9 env FOO
+
+ xpaset -p ds9 env FOO foofoo)RP(
+With the exception of )BD(-help)ES( and )BD(-version)ES(, reserved
+sub-commands are available only on the machine on which the XPA server
+itself is running.
+
+The following reserved sub-commands are defined for all access points:
+)0 DL(
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-acl)ES( get \201set\202 the access control list [options: host type acl, for set]
+)DD(
+The 'xpaset' option allows you to add a new acl for a given host, or change
+the acl for an existing host. See
+)0 41 1 A(XPA Access Control)41 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+for more information.
+This access point is available only on the server machine.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-env)ES( get \201set\202 an environment variable [options: name \201value, for set\202]
+)DD(The 'xpaget' option will return the value of the named environment
+variable. The 'xpaset' option will set the value of the names
+variable to the specified value.
+This access point is available only on the server machine.
+\201Please be advised that we have had problems setting environment
+variables in static Tcl/Tk programs such as ds9 running under Linux.\202
+
+)0 P()0 DT( )BD(-clipboard)ES( set\201get\202 information on a named clipboard
+)DD( Clients can store ASCII state information on any number of named
+clipboards. Clipboards of the same name created by clients on
+different machines are kept separate. The syntax for creating a
+clipboard is:
+) 2 65 PR( [data] | xpaset [server] -clipboard add|append [clipboard_name]
+ xpaset -p [server] -clipboard delete [clipboard_name])RP(
+Use "add" to create a new clipboard or replace the contents of an existing
+one. Use "append" to append to an existing clipboard.
+)0 P(Information on a named clipboard is retrieved using:
+) 1 45 PR( xpaget [server] -clipboard [clipboard_name])RP(
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-exec)ES( set: execute commands from buffer [options: none]
+)DD(If -exec is specified in the paramlist of an 'xpaset' call, then further
+sub-commands will be retrieved from the data buffer.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-help)ES( get: return help string for this XPA or sub-command [options: name \201for sub-commands\202]
+)DD(Each XPA access point and each XPA sub-command can have a help string
+associated with it that is specified when the access point is defined.
+The -help option will return this help string. For XPA access points
+that contain user-defined sub-commands, you can get the help string
+for a particular sub-command by specifying its name, or else get the
+help strings for all sub-commands if not name is specified.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-ltimeout)ES( get \201set\202 the long timeout value [options: seconds|reset]
+)DD(The 'xpaget' option will return the value of the long timeout \201in seconds\202.
+The 'xpaset' option will set the value of the long timeout. If "reset" is
+specified, then the timeout value will be reset to the default value.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-nsconnect)ES( set: re-establish name server connection to all XPA's [options: none]
+)DD(If the
+)0 14 1 A(XPA Name Server \201xpans\202)14 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+process has terminated unexpectedly and then re-started, this
+sub-command can be used to re-establish the connection. You use it by
+sending the command to the [name:port] or [file] of the access point
+instead of to the XPA name \201since the latter requires the xpans
+connection!\202:
+) 1 36 PR( xpaset -p 838e2f67:1268 -nsconnect)RP(
+See )0 14 1 A(xpans)14 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( for more information.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-nsdisconnect)ES( set: break name server connection to all XPA's [options: none]
+)DD(This sub-command will terminate the connection to the
+)0 14 1 A(XPA Name Server \201xpans\202)14 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(, thereby making
+all access points inaccessible except through their underlying [name:port]
+or [file] identifiers. I forget why we added it, it seems pretty useless.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-stimeout)ES( get \201set\202 the short timeout value [options: seconds|reset]
+)DD(The 'xpaget' option will return the value of the short timeout \201in seconds\202.
+The 'xpaset' option will set the value of the short timeout. If "reset" is
+specified, then the timeout value will be reset to the default value.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-remote)ES( set: register xpa with remote server [options: host[:port] [acl]] [-proxy]
+)DD(This sub-command will register the XPA access point with the XPA name
+server \201xpans\202 on the specified host \201which must already be running\202.
+The specified host also is given access control to the access point,
+using the specified acl or the default acl of "+" \201meaning the remote
+host can xpaset, xpaget, xpainfo or xpaaccess\202. If the acl is
+specified as "-", then the access point is unregistered.
+See )0 6 1 A(Communication Between Machines)6 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+for more information on how this sub-command is used.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-version)ES( get: return XPA version string [options: none]
+)DD(The version refers to the version of XPA used to define this access point
+\201currently something like 2.0\202.
+)LD(
+
+)0 P(You can add your own reserved commands to all XPA access points by using the
+)0 18 1 A(XPACmdAdd\201\202)18 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+routine, passing the XPA handle returned by )EM(XPA XPAGetReserved\201void\202)ES(
+as the first argument. Note again that these will only be available on the
+machine where the XPA service is running.
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 15 H(Last)WB 67 Sn( updated: September 10, 2003)EH(
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (method.html) D
+/Ti (XPA Communication Methods) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 5 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 16 H(XPAMethod:)WB 69 Sn()WB 68 Sn( )EA(XPA Communication Methods)EH(
+
+
+)0 2 17 H(Summary)WB 70 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(XPA supports both inet and unix \201local\202 socket communication.
+
+
+)0 2 18 H(Description)WB 71 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(XPA uses sockets for communication between processes. It supports
+three methods of socket communication: inet, localhost, and unix. In
+general, the same method should be employed for all XPA processes in a
+session and the global environment variable XPA_METHOD should be used
+to set up the desired method. By default, the preferred method is
+"inet", which is appropriate for most users. You can set up a
+different method by typing something like:
+) 3 70 PR( setenv XPA_METHOD local # unix csh
+ XPA_METHOD=local; export XPA_METHOD # unix sh, bash, windows/cygwin
+ set XPA_METHOD=localhost # dos/windows)RP(
+The options for XPA_METHOD are: )BD(inet)ES(, )BD(unix)ES( \201or
+)BD(local)ES(\202, and )BD(localhost)ES(. On Unix machines, this
+environment setup command can be placed in your shell init file
+\201.cshrc, .profile, .bashrc, etc.\202 On Windows platforms, it can be
+placed in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file \201I think!\202.
+
+)0 P(By default, )BD(inet)ES( sockets are used by XPA. These are the standard
+Internet sockets that are used by programs such as Netscape,
+ftp. etc. Inet sockets utilize the IP address of the given machine and
+a \201usually random\202 port number to communicate between processes on the
+same machine or between different machines on the Internet. \201Note that
+XPA has an )0 41 1 A(Access Control)41 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( mechanism to
+prevent unauthorized access of XPA access points by other computers on
+the Net\202. For users connected to the Internet, this usually is the
+appropriate communication method. For more information about setting
+up XPA communication between machines, see
+)0 6 1 A(Communication Between Machines)6 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(.
+
+)0 P(In you are using XPA on a machine without an Internet connection, then
+inet sockets are not appropriate. In fact, an XPA process often will
+hang for many seconds while waiting for a response from the Domain
+Name Service \201DNS\202 when using inet sockets. Instead of inet sockets,
+users on Unix platforms can also use )BD(unix)ES( sockets \201also known
+as local sockets\202. These sockets are based on the local file system
+and do not make use of the DNS. They generally are considered to be
+faster than inet sockets, but they are not implemented under
+Windows. Use local sockets as a first resort if you are on a Unix
+machine that is not connected to the Internet.
+
+)0 P(Users not connected to the Internet also can use )BD(localhost)ES(
+sockets. These are also inet-type sockets but the IP address used for
+the local machine is the )BD(localhost)ES( address, 0x7F000001, instead
+of the real IP of the machine. Depending on how sockets are set up for
+a given platform, communication with the DNS usually is not required in
+this case \201though of course, XPA cannot interact with other machines\202.
+The localhost method will generally work on both Unix and Windows
+platforms, but whether the DNS is required or not is subject to
+individual configurations.
+
+)0 P(A final warning/reminder: if your XPA-enabled server hangs at startup
+time and your XPA_METHOD is )BD(inet)ES(, the problem probably is
+related to an incorrect Internet configuration. This can be confirmed
+by using the )BD(unix)ES( method or \201usually\202 the )BD(localhost)ES(
+method. You can use these alternate methods if other hosts do not need
+access to the XPA server.
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 19 H(Last)WB 72 Sn( updated: September 10, 2003)EH(
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (inet.html) D
+/Ti (XPA Communication Between Hosts) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 6 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 20 H(XPAInet:)WB 74 Sn()WB 73 Sn( XPA Communication Between Hosts)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 21 H(Summary)WB 75 Sn()EH(
+XPA uses standard inet sockets to support communication between two or
+more host computers.
+
+
+)0 2 22 H(Description)WB 76 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(When the )0 5 1 A(Communication Method)5 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( is set to
+)BD(inet)ES( \201as it is by default\202, XPA can be used to communicate
+between different computers on the Internet. INET sockets utilize the
+IP address of the given machine and a \201usually random\202 port number to
+communicate between processes on the same machine or between different
+machines on the Internet. These standard Internet sockets are also
+used by programs such as Netscape, ftp. etc.
+
+)0 P(XPA supports a host-based )0 41 1 A(Access Control)41 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( mechanism
+to prevent unauthorized access of XPA access points by other computers
+on the Net. By default, only the machine on which the XPA server is
+running can access XPA services. Therefore, setting up communication
+between a local XPA server machine and a remote client machine
+requires a two-part registration process:
+
+)UL()-1 LI( the XPA service on the local machine must be made known to the
+remote machine
+)-1 LI( the remote machine must be given permission to access the local
+XPA service)LU(
+
+Three methods by which this remote registration can be accomplished
+are described below.
+
+)0 2 23 H(Manual)WB 77 Sn( Registration)EH(
+
+The first method is the most basic and does not require the remote
+client to have xpans running. To use it, the local server simply
+gives a remote client machine access to one or more XPA access points
+using xpaset and the )BD(-acl)ES( sub-command. For example,
+consider the XPA test program "stest" running on a local machine. By
+default the access control for the access point named "xpa" is
+restricted to that machine:
+) 3 25 PR( [sh]$ xpaget xpa -acl
+ *:* 123.456.78.910 gisa
+ *:* localhost gisa)RP(
+Using xpaset and the )BD(-acl)ES( sub-command, a remote client
+machine can be given permission to perform xpaget, xpaset, xpaaccess,
+or xpainfo operations. For example, to allow the xpaget operation, the
+following command can be issued on the local machine:
+) 1 45 PR( [sh]$ xpaset -p xpa -acl "remote_machine g")RP(
+This results in the following access permissions on the local machine:
+) 4 26 PR( [sh]$ xpaget xpa -acl
+ XPA:xpa 234.567.89.012 g
+ *:* 123.456.78.910 gisa
+ *:* localhost gisa)RP(
+
+The remote client can now use the local server's xpans name server to
+establish communication with the local XPA service. This can be done
+on a call-by-call basis using the )BD(-i)ES( switch on xpaset, xpaget, etc:
+) 6 43 PR( [sh]$ xpaget -i "local_machine:12345" xpa
+ class: XPA
+ name: xpa
+ method: 88877766:2778
+ sendian: little
+ cendian: big)RP(
+Alternatively, the XPA_NSINET variable on the remote machine can be
+set to point directly to xpans on the local machine, removing
+the need to override this value each time an XPA program is run:
+) 7 42 PR( [csh]$ setenv XPA_NSINET 'karapet:$port'
+ [csh]$ xpaget xpa
+ class: XPA
+ name: xpa
+ method: 88877766:2778
+ sendian: little
+ cendian: big)RP(
+Here, '$port' means to use the default XPA name service port \20114285\202.
+not a port environment variable.
+
+)0 P(Access permission for remote client machines can be stored in a file
+on the local machine pointed to by the )BD(XPA_ACLFILE)ES( environment
+variable or using the )BD(XPA_DEFACL)ES( environment variable. See )0 41 1 A(XPA Access Control)41 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( for more information.
+
+)0 2 24 H(Remote)WB 78 Sn( Registration)EH(
+
+If xpans is running on the remote client machine, then a local xpaset
+command can be used with the )BD(-remote)ES( sub-command to
+register the local XPA service in the remote name service, while at
+the same time giving the remote machine permission to access the local
+service. For example, assume again that "stest" is running on the
+local machine and that xpans is also running on the remote machine.
+To register access of this local xpa on the remote machine, use
+the xpaset and the )BD(-remote)ES( sub-command:
+) 1 56 PR( [sh]$ ./xpaset -p xpa -remote 'remote_machine:$port' +)RP(
+To register the local xpa access point on the remote machine with xpaget
+access only, execute:
+) 1 56 PR( [sh]$ ./xpaset -p xpa -remote 'remote_machine:$port' g)RP(
+Once the remote registration command is executed, the remote client
+machine will have an entry such as the following in its own xpans name
+service:
+) 2 31 PR( [csh]$ xpaget xpans
+ XPA xpa gs 88877766:2839 eric)RP(
+The xpa access point can now be utilized on the remote machine without
+further setup:
+) 6 23 PR( [csh]$ xpaget xpa
+ class: XPA
+ name: xpa
+ method: 838e2f68:2839
+ sendian: little
+ cendian: big)RP(
+To unregister remote access from the local machine, use the same
+command but with a '-' argument:
+) 1 54 PR( [sh]$ xpaset -p xpa -remote 'remote_machine:$port' -)RP(
+The benefit of using remote registration is that communication with
+remote access points can be mixed with that of other access points
+on the remote machine. Using )0 3 1 A(Access Point
+Names and Templates)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(, one XPA command can be used to send or
+receive messages to the remote and local services.
+
+)0 2 25 H(XPANS)WB 79 Sn( Proxy Registration)EH(
+
+The two methods described above are useful when the local and remote
+machines are able to communicate freely to one another. This would be
+the case on most Local Area Networks \201LANs\202 where all machines are
+behind the same firewall and there is no port blocking between
+machines on the same LAN. The situation is more complicated when the
+XPA server is behind a firewall, where outgoing connections are
+allowed, but incoming port blocking is implemented to prevent machines
+outside the firewall from connecting to machines inside the
+firewall. Such incoming port blocking will prevent xpaset and xpaget
+from connecting to an XPA server inside a firewall.
+
+)0 P(To allow locally fire-walled XPA services to register with remote
+machines, we have implemented a proxy service within the xpans name
+server. To register remote proxy service, xpaset and the
+)BD(-remote)ES( sub-command is again used, but with an additional
+)BD(-proxy)ES( argument added to the end of the command:
+) 1 63 PR( [sh]$ ./xpaset -p xpa -remote 'remote_machine:$port' g -proxy)RP(
+Once a remote proxy registration command is executed, the remote
+machine will have an entry such as the following in its own xpans name
+service:
+) 2 32 PR( [csh]$ xpaget xpans
+ XPA xpa gs @88877766:2839 eric)RP(
+The '@' sign in the name service entry indicates that xpans proxy
+processing is being used for this access point. Other than that, from
+the user's point of view, there is no difference in how this XPA
+access point is contacted using XPA programs \201xpaset, xpaget, etc.\202 or
+libraries:
+) 6 23 PR( [csh]$ xpaget xpa
+ class: XPA
+ name: xpa
+ method: 88877766:3053
+ sendian: little
+ cendian: big)RP(
+)0 P(Of course, the underlying processing of the XPA requests is very much
+different when xpans proxy is involved. Instead of an XPA program such
+contacting the XPA service directly, it contacts the local xpans.
+Acting as a proxy server, xpans communicates with the XPA service
+using the command channel established at registration time. Commands
+\201including establishing a new data channel\202 are sent between xpans and
+the XPA service to set up a new message transfer, and then data is fed
+to/from the xpa request, through xpans, from/to the XPA service. In
+this way, it can be arranged so that connections between the
+fire-walled XPA service and the remote client are always initiated by
+the XPA service itself. Thus, incoming connections that would be
+blocked by the firewall are avoided. Note that there is a performance
+penalty for using the xpans/proxy service. Aside from extra overhead
+to set up proxy communication, all data must be sent through the
+intermediate proxy process.
+
+)0 P(The xpans proxy scheme requires that the remote client allow the local
+XPA server machine to connect to the remote xpans/proxy server. If the
+remote client machine also is behind a port-blocking firewall, such
+connections will be disallowed. In this case, the only solution is to
+open up some ports on the remote client machine to allow incoming
+connections to xpans/proxy. Two ports must be opened \201for command and
+data channel connections\202. By default, these two ports are 14285 and
+14287. The port numbers can be changed using the )BD(XPA_NSINET)ES(
+environment variable. This variable takes the form:
+) 1 49 PR( setenv XPA_NSINET machine:port1[,port2[,port3]])RP(
+where port1 is the main connecting port, port2 is the XPA access port,
+and port3 is the secondary data connecting port. The second and third
+ports are optional and default to port1+1 and port1+2, respectively.
+It is port1 and port3 that must be left open for incoming connections.
+
+)0 P(For example, to change the port assignments so that xpans listens
+for registration commands on port 12345 and data commands on port 28573:
+) 1 32 PR( setenv XPA_NSINET myhost:12345)RP(
+Alternatively, all three ports can be assigned explicitly:
+) 1 43 PR( setenv XPA_NSINET remote:12345,3000,12346)RP(
+In this case 12345 and 12346 should be open for incoming connections.
+The XPA access port \201which need not be open to the outside
+world\202 is set to 3000.
+
+)0 P(Finally, note that we currently have no mechanism to cope with
+Internet proxy servers \201such as SOCKS servers\202. If an XPA service is
+running on a machine that cannot connect directly to outside machines,
+but goes through a proxy server instead, there currently is no way to
+register that XPA service with a remote machine. We hope to implement
+support for SOCKS proxy in a future release.
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 26 H(Last)WB 80 Sn( updated: September 10, 2003)EH(
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (users.html) D
+/Ti (Distinguishing Users) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 7 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 27 H(XPAUsers:)WB 82 Sn()WB 81 Sn( Distinguishing Users)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 28 H(Summary)WB 83 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(XPA normally distinguishes between users on a given host, but it is possible
+to send data to access points belonging to other users.
+
+
+)0 2 29 H(Description)WB 84 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(A single XPA name service typically serves all users on a given
+machine. Two users can register the same XPA access points on the
+same machine without conflict, because the user's username is
+registered with each access point and, by default, programs such as
+xpaget and xpaset only process access points of the appropriate user.
+For example:
+) 4 32 PR( XPA xpa1 gs 838e2f67:1262 eric
+ XPA xpa2 gs 838e2f67:1266 eric
+ XPA xpa1 gs 838e2f67:2523 john
+ XPA xpa2 gs 838e2f67:2527 john)RP(
+Here the users "eric" and "john" both have registered the access
+points xpa1 and xpa2. When either "john" or "eric" retrieves
+information from xpa1, they will process only the access point
+registered in their user name.
+
+)0 P(If you want to access another user's XPA access points on a single
+machine, use the -u [user] option on xpaset, xpaget, etc. For example,
+if eric executes:
+) 1 21 PR( xpaget -u john xpa1)RP(
+he will access John's xpa1 access point.Use "*" to access all users
+on a given machine:
+) 1 20 PR( xpaget -u "*" xpa1)RP(
+Note that the )0 40 1 A(XPA Environment Variable)40 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+XPA_NSUSERS can be used to specify the default list of users to
+process:
+) 1 32 PR( setenv XPA_NSUSERS "eric,john")RP(
+will cause access points from both "eric" and "john" to be processed
+by default.
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
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+
+)0 2 32 H(Summary)WB 87 Sn()EH(
+
+)0 P(Use the XPA programs to send/receive data to/from XPA servers from the
+command line or from scripts.
+
+)0 P() 7 116 PR( <data> | xpaset [-h] [-i nsinet] [-m method] [-n] [-p] [-s] [-t sval,lval] [-u users] [-v] <template> [paramlist]
+
+ xpaget [-h] [-i nsinet] [-m method] [-s] [-t sval,lval] [-u users] <template> [paramlist]
+
+ xpainfo [-h] [-i nsinet] [-m method] [-n] [-s] [-t sval,lval] [-u users] <template> [paramlist]
+
+ xpaaccess [-c] [-h] [-i nsinet] [-m method] [-n] [-u users] [-v|-V] <template> [type])RP(
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 33 H(xpaset:)WB 88 Sn()WB 10 Sn( send data to one or more XPA servers)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 1 124 PR(<data> | xpaset [-h] [-i nsinet] [-m method] [-n] [-p] [-s] [-t sval,lval] [-u users] [-v] <template|host:port> [paramlist])RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P() 10 79 PR( -h print help message
+ -i access XPA point on different machine \201override XPA_NSINET\202
+ -m override XPA_METHOD environment variable
+ -n don't wait for the status message after server completes
+ -p don't read \201or send\202 buf data from stdin
+ -s enter server mode
+ -t [s,l] set short and long timeouts \201override XPA_[SHORT,LONG]_TIMEOUT\202
+ -u [users] XPA points can be from specified users \201override XPA_NSUSERS\202
+ -v verify message to stdout
+ --version display version and exit)RP(
+
+
+)0 P(Data read from stdin will be sent to access points matching the
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+or host:port.
+A set of qualifying parameters can be appended.
+)0 P(Normally, xpaset reads data input from stdin until EOF and sends those
+data to the XPA target, along with parameters entered on the command
+line. For example to send a FITS file to the ds9 image display:
+) 1 32 PR( cat foo.fits | xpaset ds9 fits)RP(
+)0 P(Sometimes, however, it is desirable to send only parameters to an XPA
+access point, without sending data. For such cases, use the -p switch to
+indicate that there is no data being send to stdin. For example, to
+change the colormap used by the ds9 image display program, use:
+) 1 30 PR( csh> xpaset -p ds9 cmap Heat)RP(
+Of course, this also can be accomplished by sending EOF to stdin in
+any of the usual ways:
+) 4 43 PR( csh> echo "" | xpaset ds9 cmap Heat
+ csh> xpaget ds9 cmap Heat < /dev/null
+ csh> xpaset ds9 cmap Heat
+ ^D # Ctl-D signals EOF)RP(
+)0 P(The -s switch puts xpaset into server mode, in which commands and data
+can be sent to access points without having to run xpaset multiple times.
+\201Its not clear if this buys you much!\202 The syntax for sending commands
+in server mode is:
+)0 P() 8 24 PR( csh> xpaset -s
+ xpaset ds9 colormap I8
+ ^D
+ xpaset ds9 regions
+ circle 200 300 40
+ circle 300 400 50
+ ^D
+etc.)RP(
+After the required "xpaset" command is specified, optional ASCII data
+can be appended \201as in the region example\202. A single data/command set is
+delimited by ^D. Note that typing ^D when a command is expected terminates
+the program.
+)0 P(NB: server mode only works from the terminal and only ASCII data can be
+sent in this way.
+)0 P()BD(Examples:)ES(
+) 2 40 PR( csh> xpaset ds9 file < foo.fits
+ csh> echo "stop" | xpaset myhost:12345)RP(
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 34 H(xpaget:)WB 89 Sn()WB 9 Sn( retrieve data from one or more XPA servers)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 1 99 PR(xpaget [-h] [-i nsinet] [-m method] [-s] [-t sval,lval] [-u users] <template|host:port> [paramlist])RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P() 8 79 PR( -h print help message
+ -i access XPA point on different machine \201override XPA_NSINET\202
+ -m override XPA_METHOD environment variable
+ -n don't wait for the status message after server completes
+ -s enter server mode
+ -t [s,l] set short and long timeouts \201override XPA_[SHORT,LONG]_TIMEOUT\202
+ -u [users] XPA points can be from specified users \201override XPA_NSUSERS\202
+ --version display version and exit)RP(
+
+
+)0 P(Data will be retrieved from access points matching the
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+or host:port.
+A set of qualifying parameters can be appended.
+)0 P()BD(Examples:)ES(
+) 2 38 PR( csh> xpaget ds9 images
+ csh> xpaget myhost.harvard.edu:12345)RP(
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 35 H(xpainfo:)WB 90 Sn()WB 11 Sn( send short message to one or more XPA servers)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 1 105 PR(xpainfo [-h] [-i nsinet] [-m method] [-n] [-s] [-t sval,lval] [-u users] <template|host:port> [paramlist])RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P() 8 79 PR( -h print help message
+ -i access XPA point on different machine \201override XPA_NSINET\202
+ -m override XPA_METHOD environment variable
+ -n don't wait for the status message after server completes
+ -s enter server mode
+ -t [s,l] set short and long timeouts \201override XPA_[SHORT,LONG]_TIMEOUT\202
+ -u [users] XPA points can be from specified users \201override XPA_NSUSERS\202
+ --version display version and exit)RP(
+
+
+)0 P(Info will be sent to access points matching the
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+or host:port.
+A set of qualifying parameters can be appended.
+)0 P()BD(Examples:)ES(
+) 1 30 PR( csh> xpainfo IMAGE ds9 image)RP(
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 36 H(xpaaccess:)WB 91 Sn()WB 12 Sn( see if template matches registered XPA access points)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 1 95 PR(xpaaccess [-c] [-h] [-i nsinet] [-m method] [-n] [-t sval,lval] [-u users] -v <template> [type])RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P() 10 79 PR( -c contact each access point individually
+ -h print help message
+ -i access XPA point on different machine \201override XPA_NSINET\202
+ -m override XPA_METHOD environment variable
+ -n return number of matches instead of "yes" or "no"
+ -t [s,l] set short and long timeouts \201override XPA_[SHORT,LONG]_TIMEOUT\202
+ -u [users] XPA points can be from specified users \201override XPA_NSUSERS\202
+ -v print info about each successful access point
+ -V print info or error about each access point
+ --version display version and exit)RP(
+
+
+)0 P(xpaaccess returns "yes" to stdout \201with a return error code if 1\202 if there are
+existing XPA access points that match the
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+\201and optional access type: g,i,s\202. Otherwise, it returns "no" \201with a
+return error code of 0\202. If -n is specified, the number of matches is
+returned instead \201both to stdout and in the returned error code\202. If
+-v is specified, each access point is displayed to stdout instead of
+the number of matches.
+
+)0 P(By default, xpaaccess simply contacts the xpans name server to find
+the list of registered access points that match the specified
+template. It also checks to make sure the specified types are
+supported by that access point. This is the fastest way to determine
+available access points. However, an access point might registered but
+not yet available, if, for example, the server program has not entered
+its event loop to process XPA requests. To find access points that are
+guaranteed to be available for processing, use the -c \201contact\202
+switch. With this switch, xpaaccess contacts each matching XPA server
+\201rather than the name server\202 to make sure the registered access point
+really is ready for processing. In this mode, if an access point is
+registered but not available, xpaaccess will pause for a period of
+time equal to the XPA_LONG_TIMEOUT, in order to give the server a
+chance to ready itself. By default, this timeout is 30 seconds. You
+can shorten the time of delay using the -t "short,long" switch. For
+example, to shorten the delay time to 2 seconds, use:
+) 1 27 PR( xpaaccess -c -t "2,2" ds9)RP(
+The first argument is the short delay value, and is ignored in this
+operation. The second is the long delay timeout.
+
+)0 P(Note also that the default xpaaccess method \201no -c switch\202 does not
+check access control \201acls\202 but rather only checks whether the access
+point is both registered with the xpans name server and provides the
+specified type of access. In other words, the default xpaaccess could
+return 'yes' when you might not actually have access. This mode also
+always returns 'yes' for the xpans name server itself, regardless of
+whether the name server is active. The -c \201contact\202 switch, which
+contacts the access point directly, can and does check the access
+control \201only for servers using version 2.1 and above\202 and also
+returns the real status of xpans.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
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+)0 2 38 H(xpamb:)WB 94 Sn()WB 93 Sn( the XPA Message Bus)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 39 H(Summary)WB 95 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(The xpamb program can act as a "classical" message bus interface
+between clients and servers. A client can send a data request to
+the message bus, which then interfaces with multiple servers and
+returns the data back to the client.
+
+
+)0 2 40 H(Description)WB 96 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(A "classical" message bus \201such as ToolTalk\202 consists of servers and
+clients, along with a mediating program that transfers data between
+different processes. XPA takes a slightly different approach in that
+communication between clients and servers is direct. This generally
+is the correct technique when there is only one connection \201or even a
+small number of connections\202, but can become inefficient for the
+serving program if a large amount of data is being transferred to many
+clients. For example, if a real-time data acquisition program is
+broadcasting a FITS image to several clients, it would need to
+transmit that image to each client individually. This might interfere
+with its own processing cycles. The preferable mechanism would be to
+pass the image off to an intermediate program that can then broadcast
+the data to the several clients.
+)0 P(The )BD(xpamb)ES( program can alleviate such problems by functioning
+as a message bus in cases where such an intermediary process is
+wanted. It pre-defines a single access point named
+)BD(XPAMB:xpamb)ES( to which data can be sent for re-broadcast. You
+also can tell )BD(xpamb)ES( to save the data, and associate with that
+data a new access point, so that it can be retrieved later on.
+
+)0 P(All interaction with )BD(xpamb)ES( is performed through
+)BD(xpaset)ES( and )BD(xpaget)ES( \201or the corresponding API
+routines, )BD(XPASet\201\202)ES( and )BD(XPAGet\201\202)ES(\202 to the
+)BD(XPAMB:xpamb)ES( access point. That is, )BD(xpamb)ES( is just
+another XPA-enabled program that responds to requests from
+clients. The paramlist is used to specify the targets to which
+the data will be for re-broadcast, as well as the re-broadcast paramlist:
+) 1 69 PR( data | xpaset xpamb [switches] broadcast-target broadcast-paramlist)RP(
+Optional switches are used to store data, and manipulate stored data,
+and are described below.
+
+)0 P(In its simplest form, you can, for example, send a FITS image to xpamb for
+broadcasting to all ds9 image simply by executing:
+) 1 51 PR( cat foo.fits | xpaset xpamb "DS9:*" fits foo.fits)RP(
+Since )BD(DS9)ES( is the class name for the ds9 image display
+program, this will result in the FITS image being re-sent to all fits
+access points for all active image display programs.
+
+)0 P(You can send stored data and new data to the same set of access points at
+the same time. The stored data always is send first, followed by the new
+data:
+) 1 62 PR( cat foo2.fits | xpaset xpamb -send foo "DS9:*" fits foo.fits)RP(
+will first send the foo.fits file, and then the foo2.fits file to all
+access points of class )BD(DS9)ES(. Notice that in this example,
+the foo2.fits file is not stored, but it could be stored by using the
+)BD(-store [name])ES( switch on the command line.
+
+)0 P(The )BD(xpaget)ES( command can be used to retrieve a data from XPA
+access points or from a stored data buffer, or retrieve information
+about a stored data buffer. If no arguments are given:
+) 1 14 PR( xpaget xpamb)RP(
+then information about all currently stored data buffers is returned. This
+information includes the data and time at which the data was stored, the
+size in bytes of the data, and the supplied info string.
+
+)0 P(If arguments are specified, they will be in the form:
+) 1 49 PR( xpaget xpamb [-info] [-data] [name [paramlist]])RP(
+If the optional )BD(-info)ES( and/or )BD(-data)ES( switches are specified, then
+information and/or data will be returned for the named data buffer
+following the switches. You can use either or both of these switches
+in a single command. For example, if the -info switch is used:
+) 1 24 PR( xpaget xpamb -info foo)RP(
+then the info about that stored data buffer will be returned.
+If the -data is used with a specific name:
+) 1 24 PR( xpaget xpamb -data foo)RP(
+then the stored data itself will be returned. If both are used:
+) 1 30 PR( xpaget xpamb -info -data foo)RP(
+then the info will be returned, followed by the data. Note that it is an
+error to specify one of these switches without a data buffer name and that
+the paramlist will be ignored.
+
+)0 P(If neither the )BD(-info)ES( or )BD(-data)ES( switch is specified, then
+the name refers to an XPA access point \201with an optional paramlist
+following\202.
+For example:
+) 1 23 PR( xpaget xpamb ds9 file)RP(
+is equivalent to:
+) 1 17 PR( xpaget ds9 file)RP(
+
+
+)0 2 41 H(Options)WB 97 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(For xpaset, several optional switches are used to save data and
+manipulate the stored data:
+)0 DL(
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-data [name])ES(
+)DD( Add the supplied data buffer to a pool of stored data buffers,
+using the specified name as a unique identifier for later retrieval.
+An error occurs if the name already exists \201use either )BD(replace)ES(
+or )BD(del)ES( to rectify this\202. The )BD(-add)ES( switch is supported
+for backwards compatibility with xpa 2.0.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-replace [name])ES(
+)DD( Replace previously existing stored data having the same unique name
+with new data. This essentially is a combination of the )BD(del)ES(
+and )BD(data)ES( commands.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-info ["'info string'"])ES(
+)DD( When adding a data buffer, you can specify an informational
+string to be stored with that data. This string will be returned
+by xpaget:
+) 1 24 PR( xpaget xpamb foo -info)RP(
+\201along with other information such as the date/time of storage and the size of
+the data buffer\202 if the -info switch is specified. If the info string contains
+spaces, you must enclose it in )BD(two)ES( sets of quotes:
+) 1 65 PR( cat foo | xpaset xpamb -store foo -info "'this is info on foo'")RP(
+The first set of quotes is removed by the shell while the second is used to
+delineate the info string.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-send [name])ES(
+)DD( Broadcast the stored data buffer to the named template.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(-del [name])ES(
+)DD( Delete the named data buffer and free all allocated space.)LD(
+
+)0 P(Switches can be used in any combination that makes sense. For example:
+) 1 75 PR( cat foo.fits | xpaset xpamb -store foo -info "FITS" "DS9:*" fits foo.fits)RP(
+will broadcast the foo.fits image to all access points of class
+)BD(DS9)ES(. In addition, the foo.fits file will be stored under the
+name of )BD(foo)ES( for later manipulation such as:
+) 1 49 PR( xpaset -p xpamb -send foo "DS9:*" fits foo.fits)RP(
+will re-broadcast the foo.fits image to all access points of class "DS9".
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
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+
+
+)0 2 44 H(Summary)WB 101 Sn()EH(
+) 1 70 PR( xpans [-h] [-e] [-k sec] [-p port] [-l log] [-s security log] [-P n])RP(
+
+
+)0 P() 8 71 PR( -h print help message
+ -e exit when there are no more XPA connections
+ -k send keepalive messages every n sec
+ -l log data base entries to specified file
+ -p listen for connections on specified port
+ -s log security info for each connection to specified file
+ -P accept proxy requests \201P=1\202 using separate thread \201P=2\202
+ --version display version and exit)RP(
+
+
+)0 P(The xpans name server is an XPA-enabled program that is used to
+manage the names and ports of XPA access points. It is started
+automatically when an XPA access point is registered. You can access
+the name server using xpaget to get a list of registered access points.
+)0 P(The )EM(xpans)ES( name server provides a crucial link between XPA
+clients and servers. When an XPA server defines an access point using
+XPANew\201\202, XPACmdNew\201\202, or XPAInfoNew\201\202, the name of the access point
+is registered in the name service, along with connection information.
+The name server then matches class:name templates passed to it by XPA
+clients with these registered entries, so that the clients can
+communicate with the appropriate servers.
+
+)0 P(The socket connection between an XPA-enabled program and
+)EM(xpans)ES( is kept open until the former exits \201or explicitly
+closes the connection\202. Apparently, some Internet equipment \201e.g. DSL
+modems\202 can cause such a connection to time-out after a period of
+inactivity. To prevent this from happening, you can use the )EM(-k
+[sec])ES( switch to send a short keep-alive message to each open
+connection after the specified time delay. \201Note that this
+application level use of keep-alive is necessary only if you are
+serving XPA-enabled clients over the Internet and have to deal with
+long-term connections involving DSL or similar equipment. XPA uses
+the ordinary socket-level keep-alive, which works for all other cases.\202
+)BD(NB \20112/2/2009\202: Out-of-band \201URG\202 TCP data, used by xpans
+keep-alive, is changed by some Cisco routers into in-band data.
+Encountering such a router will break the keep-alive function and may
+break your XPA server as well. Proceed with caution!)ES(
+
+)0 P(The )EM(xpans)ES( program will be started automatically \201assuming it
+can be found in the user's path\202 when the first XPA access point is
+registered. It therefore need not be started explicitly. However,
+when started automatically, the )EM(-e)ES( switch is used, so that
+the name server will exit when there are no more XPA access points
+registered. If you wish to keep the name server running continually,
+simply start it manually without the )EM(-e)ES( switch.
+
+)0 P(The name server will keep a log of registered access points if the
+)EM(-l [log])ES( switch is used on the command line \201this is the
+case for automatic start-up\202. The log contains enough name and connection
+information to allow you to re-register all XPA access points in case
+the name server process is terminated prematurely. For example, after
+the ds9 access point is registered,the log will contain the entry:
+) 1 35 PR( add 838e2f67:1863 ds9 ds9 gs eric)RP(
+If )EM(xpans)ES( is terminated but ds9 still is running, you
+can re-register both access points for the ds9 process by running:
+) 1 36 PR( xpaset -p 838e2f67:1863 -nsconnect)RP(
+Notice that the ip:port specifier is used with )EM(xpaset)ES( to bypass
+the need for contacting the name server \201which does not have the name
+registered yet!\202
+
+)0 P(The name server will keep a log of security information if the )EM(-s
+[security log])ES( switch is used on the command line. For each
+accepted connection, \201including connections via the )EM(xpaget)ES(
+command\202, information will be logged about the host issuing the
+command and the parameters passed into the program. This is most
+useful when )EM(xpans)ES( is accepting connections from untrusted
+machines.
+
+)0 P(When an XPA access point is removed by a server using )EM(XPAFree\201\202)ES(,
+the access information is removed from the name server. If an
+XPA-enabled process is terminated, all names registered by that process
+will be removed automatically. The log file is always updated to
+reflect the currently registered access points.
+
+)0 P(The name server itself has an XPA access point names )EM(xpans)ES(
+registered through which you can find out information about currently
+registered access points \201assuming you have access to the name server;
+see )0 41 1 A(XPA Access Control)41 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( for more information\202.
+For each registered access point, the following information is returned:
+) 5 80 PR( class # class of the access point
+ name # name of the access point
+ access # allowed access \201g=xpaget,s=xpaset,i=xpainfo\202
+ id # socket access method \201host:port for inet, file for local/unix\202
+ user # user name of access point owner)RP(
+
+)0 P(For example, to display all currently registered access points, simply execute:
+) 1 14 PR( xpaget xpans)RP(
+Continuing the example of ds9 above, this will return:
+) 1 31 PR( DS9 ds9 gs 838e2f67:1863 eric)RP(
+If the same program has been started with different XPA access names,
+you can look up only names matching a specified template. For example,
+assume that ds9 has been started up using:
+) 3 25 PR( ds9 &
+ ds9 -title ds9-1-eric &
+ ds9 -title ds9-2-eric &)RP(
+To lookup all ds9 access points which end in ".eric" and which can
+be accessed using )EM(xpaset)ES(, use:
+) 1 35 PR( xpaget xpans "DS9:*.eric" "s" "*")RP(
+This will return:
+) 2 39 PR( DS9 ds9-2-eric gs 838e29d3:42102 eric
+ DS9 ds9-1-eric gs 838e29d3:42105 eric)RP(
+The third argument "*" requests all access points from all users.
+You also can specify a specific user name and only access points
+registered by that user will be returned.
+
+)0 P(The name server uses the )EM(XPA_METHOD)ES( environment variable
+to determine whether it should listen for requests on INET or LOCAL
+sockets. Since XPA access points also use this environment variable,
+the choice of socket method will be consistent. Note that, when INET
+sockets are used, a local server can be accessed from remote machines
+if the )EM(XPA_NSINET)ES( environment variable is set to point to
+the local machine. See
+)0 40 1 A(XPA Environment Variables)40 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+for more information.
+
+)0 P(An experimental feature of xpans is its ability to act as a proxy to
+XPA servers behind firewalls that want to communicate with external
+processes. The basic idea is the following: an XPA server \201call it
+"foo"\202 on host1, possibly behind a firewall, makes a remote connection
+to a proxy-enabled xpans program on host2 \201specifying host2's XPA method\202.
+For example:
+) 1 59 PR( xpaset -p foo -remote 'host2:28571' + -proxy # on host1)RP(
+When this is done, host2 can use xpaset, xpaget, and xpainfo calls to
+communicate with the XPA server foo. All command communication is
+performed via the xpans socket connection between foo on host1 and
+xpans on host2 \201which was initiated by foo from inside the firewall\202.
+Data communication is similarly performed using a socket connection
+initiated on host1 \201usually with a port value two greater than the
+port value of the main xpans socket connection\202. An xpaset or xpaget
+call on host2 contacts xpans, which performs an XPASet\201\202 or XPAGet\201\202
+call to foo, passing commands and data back and forth between the two
+programs.
+
+)0 P(By default, proxy connections are not allowed by xpans. If the -P switch is
+specified with a value of 1, proxy connection are allowed, but all proxy
+communication is performed in the same thread as xpans processing. If
+a value of 2 is specified, the proxy processing is performed in a
+separate thread \201assuming pthreads are supported on your system\202.
+Because xpa callback processing of any type can take a long time and
+therefore can interfere with normal xpans processing, threaded proxy
+connections \201-P 2\202 are recommended. When using proxy connections, it
+might also be useful to set the XPA_IOCALLSXPA environment variable, so
+that multiple proxy requests can be handled at the same time, instead of
+serially.
+
+)0 P(Note that this proxy interface to xpans is experimental. It is used
+to provide remote data analysis capabilities on the Chandra-Ed system
+using ds9. \201See http://chandra-ed.cfa.harvard.edu and
+http://hea-www.harvard.edu/saord/ds9 for more details\202. As always, please
+contact us if you have problems or questions.
+
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
+)0 2 46 H(XPAServer:)WB 106 Sn()WB 103 Sn( The XPA Server-side Programming Interface)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 47 H(Summary)WB 107 Sn()EH(
+A description of the XPA server-side programming interface.
+
+
+)0 2 48 H(Introduction)WB 108 Sn()WB 104 Sn( to XPA Server Programming)EH()EA(
+)0 P(Creating an XPA server is easy: you generally only need to call the
+XPANew\201\202 subroutine to define a named XPA access point and set up the
+send and receive callback routines. You then enter an event loop such
+as XPAMainLoop\201\202 to field XPA requests.
+) 27 66 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ XPA )0 16 1 A(XPANew)16 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201char *class, char *name, char *help,
+ int \201*send_callback\202\201\202, void *send_data, char *send_mode,
+ int \201*rec_callback\202\201\202, void *rec_data, char *rec_mode\202;
+
+ XPA )0 17 1 A(XPACmdNew)17 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201char *class, char *name\202;
+
+ XPACmd )0 18 1 A(XPACmdAdd)18 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201XPA xpa,
+ char *name, char *help,
+ int \201*send_callback\202\201\202, void *send_data, char *send_mode,
+ int \201*rec_callback\202\201\202, void *rec_data, char *rec_mode\202;
+
+ void )0 19 1 A(XPACmdDel)19 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201XPA xpa, XPACmd cmd\202;
+
+ XPA )0 20 1 A(XPAInfoNew)20 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201char *class, char *name,
+ int \201*info_callback\202\201\202, void *info_data, char *info_mode\202;
+
+ int )0 21 1 A(XPAFree)21 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201XPA xpa\202;
+
+ void )0 22 1 A(XPAMainLoop)22 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201void\202;
+
+ int )0 23 1 A(XPAPoll)23 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201int msec, int maxreq\202;
+
+ void )0 105 1 A(XPAAtExit)105 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201void\202;
+
+ void )0 24 1 A(XPACleanup)24 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201void\202;)RP(
+
+)0 2 49 H(Introduction)WB 109 Sn()EH(
+
+To use the XPA application programming interface, a software developer
+generally will include the xpa.h definitions file:
+) 1 18 PR( #include <xpa.h>)RP(
+in the software module that defines or accesses an XPA access point, and
+then will link against the libxpa.a library:
+) 1 27 PR( gcc -o foo foo.c libxpa.a)RP(
+XPA has been compiled using both C and C++ compilers.
+
+)0 P(A server program generally defines an XPA access point by calling the
+XPANew\201\202 routine and specifies "send" and/or "receive" callback
+procedures to be executed by the program when an external process
+either sends data or commands to this access point or requests data or
+information from this access point. A program also can define several
+sub-commands for a single access point by calling XPACmdNew\201\202 and
+XPACmdAdd\201\202 instead. Having defined one or more public access points
+in this way, an XPA server program enters its usual event loop \201or
+uses the standard XPA event loop\202.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 50 H(XPANew:)WB 110 Sn()WB 16 Sn( create a new XPA access point)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 7 49 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ XPA XPANew\201char *class, char *name, char *help,
+ int \201*send_callback\202\201\202,
+ void *send_data, char *send_mode,
+ int \201*rec_callback\202\201\202,
+ void *rec_data, char *rec_mode\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(Create a new XPA public access point with the class:name
+identifier )0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+and enter this access point into the XPA name server, so that it
+can be accessed by external processes. XPANew\201\202 returns an XPA struct.
+Note that the length of the class and name designations must be less
+than or equal to 1024 characters each.
+
+)0 P(The XPA name server daemon, xpans, will be started automatically if it
+is not running already \201assuming it can be found in the path\202. The
+program's ip address and listening port are specified by the
+environment variable XPA_NSINET, which takes the form :. If
+no such environment variable exists, then xpans is started on the
+current machine listening on port 14285. It also uses 14286 as a
+known port for its public access point \201so that routines do not have
+to go to the name server to find the name server ip and port!\202
+As of XPA 2.1.1, version information is exchanged between the xpans
+process and the new access point. If the access point uses an XPA
+major/minor version newer than xpans, a warning is issued by both processes,
+since mixing of new servers and old xpa programs \201xpaset, xpaget,
+xpans, etc.\202 is not likely to work. You can turn off the warning
+message by setting the XPA_VERSIONCHECK environment variable to "false".
+
+)0 P(The help string is meant to be returned by a request from xpaget:
+) 1 25 PR( xpaget class:name -help)RP(
+)0 P(A send_callback and/or a receive_callback can be specified; at
+least one of them must be specified.
+
+)0 P(A send_callback can be specified that will be executed in response to
+an external request from the xpaget program, the XPAGet\201\202 routine, or
+XPAGetFd\201\202 routine. This callback is used to send data to the
+requesting client.
+
+)0 P(The calling sequence for send_callback\201\202 is:
+) 7 53 PR( int send_callback\201void *send_data, void *call_data,
+ char *paramlist, char **buf, size_t *len\202
+ {
+ XPA xpa = \201XPA\202call_data;
+ ...
+ return\201stat\202;
+ })RP(
+)0 P(The send_mode string is of the form: "key1=value1,key2=value2,..."
+The following keywords are recognized:
+) 4 81 PR( key value default explanation
+ ------ -------- -------- -----------
+ acl true/false true enable access control
+ freebuf true/false true free buf after callback completes)RP(
+)0 P(The call_data should be recast to the XPA struct as shown. In
+addition, client-specific data can be passed to the callback in
+send_data.
+
+)0 P(The paramlist will be supplied by the client as qualifying parameters
+for the callback. There are two ways in which the send_callback\201\202
+routine can send data back to the client:
+
+)0 P(1. The send_callback\201\202 routine can fill in a buffer and pass back a
+pointer to this buffer. An integer len also is returned to specify the
+number of bytes of data in buf. XPA will send this buffer to the
+client after the callback is complete.
+
+)0 P(2. The send_callback can send data directly to the client by writing
+to the fd pointed by the macro:
+) 1 17 PR( xpa_datafd\201xpa\202)RP(
+)0 P(Note that this fd is of the kind returned by socket\201\202 or open\201\202.
+
+)0 P(If a buf has been allocated by a standard malloc routine, filled, and
+returned to XPA, then freebuf generally is set so that the buffer will
+be freed automatically when the callback is completed and data has
+been sent to the client. If a static buf is returned, freebuf should
+be set to false to avoid a system error when freeing static storage.
+Note that default value for freebuf implies that the callback will
+allocate a buffer rather than use static storage.
+
+)0 P(On the other hand, if buf is dynamically allocated using a method
+other than a standard malloc/calloc/realloc routine \201e.g. using Perl's
+memory allocation and garbage collection scheme\202, then it is necessary
+to tell XPA how to free the allocated buffer. To do this, use the
+XPASetFree\201\202 routine within your callback:
+) 1 69 PR( void XPASetFree\201XPA xpa, void \201*myfree\202\201void *\202, void *myfree_ptr\202;)RP(
+The first argument is the usual XPA handle. The second argument is the
+special routine to call to free your allocated memory. The third
+argument is an optional pointer. If not NULL, the specified free
+routine is called with that pointer as its sole argument. If NULL, the
+free routine is called with the standard buf pointer as its sole
+argument. This is useful in cases where there is a mapping between the
+buffer pointer and the actual allocated memory location, and the
+special routine is expecting to be passed the former.
+
+)0 P(If, while the callback performs its processing, an error occurs that
+should be communicated to the client, then the routine XPAError should be
+called:
+) 1 29 PR( XPAError\201XPA xpa, char *s\202;)RP(
+)0 P(where s is an arbitrary error message. The returned error message
+string will be of the form:
+) 1 42 PR( XPA$ERROR [error] \201class:name ip:port\202)RP(
+)0 P(If the callback wants to send a specific acknowledgment message back
+to the client, the routine XPAMessage can be called:
+) 1 31 PR( XPAMessage\201XPA xpa, char *s\202;)RP(
+)0 P(where s is an arbitrary error message. The returned error message
+string will be of the form:
+) 1 44 PR( XPA$MESSAGE [message] \201class:name ip:port\202)RP(
+)0 P(Otherwise, a standard acknowledgment is sent back to the client
+after the callback is completed.
+
+)0 P(The callback routine should return 0 if no error occurs, or -1 to
+signal an error.
+
+)0 P(A receive_callback can be specified that will be executed in response
+to an external request from the xpaset program, or the XPASet \201or
+XPASetFd\201\202\202 routine. This callback is used to process data received
+from an external process.
+
+)0 P(The calling sequence for receive_callback is:
+) 7 59 PR( int receive_callback\201void *receive_data, void *call_data,
+ char *paramlist, char *buf, size_t len\202
+ {
+ XPA xpa = \201XPA\202call_data;
+ ...
+ return\201stat\202;
+ })RP(
+)0 P(The mode string is of the form: "key1=value1,key2=value2,..."
+The following keywords are recognized:
+) 6 92 PR( key value default explanation
+ ------ -------- -------- -----------
+ acl true/false true enable access control
+ buf true/false true server expects data bytes from client
+ fillbuf true/false true read data into buf before executing callback
+ freebuf true/false true free buf after callback completes)RP(
+)0 P(The call_data should be recast to the XPA struct as shown. In
+addition, client-specific data can be passed to the callback in
+receive_data.
+
+)0 P(The paramlist will be supplied by the client. In addition, if the
+receive_mode keywords buf and fillbuf are true, then on entry into the
+receive_callback\201\202 routine, buf will contain the data sent by the
+client. If buf is true but fillbuf is false, it becomes the callback's
+responsibility to retrieve the data from the client, using the data fd
+pointed to by the macro xpa_datafd\201xpa\202. If freebuf is true, then buf
+will be freed when the callback is complete.
+
+)0 P(If, while the callback is performing its processing, an error occurs
+that should be communicated to the client, then the routine XPAError
+can be called:
+) 1 29 PR( XPAError\201XPA xpa, char *s\202;)RP(
+)0 P(where s is an arbitrary error message.
+
+)0 P(The callback routine should return 0 if no error occurs, or -1 to
+signal an error.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 51 H(XPACmdNew:)WB 111 Sn()WB 17 Sn( create a new XPA public access point for commands)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 3 41 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ XPA XPACmdNew\201char *class, char *name\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(Create a new XPA public access point for commands that will share a
+common identifier class:name. Enter this access point into the XPA
+name server, so that it can be accessed by external processes.
+XPACmdNew\201\202 returns an XPA struct.
+
+)0 P(It often is more convenient to have one public access point that can
+manage a number of commands, rather than having individual access
+points for each command. For example, it is easier to command the
+ds9 image display using:
+) 3 35 PR( echo "colormap I8" | xpaset ds9
+ echo "scale log" | xpaset ds9
+ echo "file foo.fits" | xpaset ds9)RP(
+)0 P(then to use:
+) 3 39 PR( echo "I8" | xpaset ds9_colormap
+ echo "log" | xpaset ds9_scale
+ echo "foo.fits" | xpaset ds9_file)RP(
+)0 P(In the first case, the commands remain the same regardless of the
+target XPA name. In the second case, the command names must change
+for each instance of ds9. That is, if a second instance of ds9
+called DS9 were running, it would be commanded either as:
+) 3 35 PR( echo "colormap I8" | xpaset DS9
+ echo "scale log" | xpaset DS9
+ echo "file foo.fits" | xpaset DS9)RP(
+)0 P(or as:
+) 3 39 PR( echo "I8" | xpaset DS9_colormap
+ echo "log" | xpaset DS9_scale
+ echo "foo.fits" | xpaset DS9_file)RP(
+)0 P(Thus, in cases where a program is going to manage many commands, it
+generally is easier to define them as commands associated with the
+XPACmdNew\201\202 routine, rather than as separate access points using
+XPANew\201\202.
+
+)0 P(When XPACmdNew\201\202 is called, only the class:name identifier is
+specified. Each sub-command is subsequently defined using the
+XPACmdAdd\201\202 routine.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 52 H(XPACmdAdd:)WB 112 Sn()WB 18 Sn( add a command to an XPA command public access point)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 7 52 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ XPACmd XPACmdAdd\201XPA xpa, char *name, char *help,
+ int \201*send_callback\202\201\202,
+ void *send_data, char *send_mode,
+ int \201*rec_callback\202\201\202,
+ void *rec_data, char *rec_mode\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(Add a command to an XPA command access point. The XPA argument specifies the
+XPA struct returned by a call to XPANewCmd\201\202. The name argument is the
+name of the command. The other arguments function identically to the
+arguments in the XPANew\201\202 command, i.e., the send_callback and rec_callback
+routines have identical calling sequences to their XPANew\201\202 counterparts,
+with the exceptions noted below.
+
+)0 P(When help is requested for a command access point using:
+) 1 22 PR( xpaget -h class:name)RP(
+)0 P(all of the command help strings are listed. To get help for a given
+command, use:
+) 1 26 PR( xpaget -h class:name cmd)RP(
+)0 P(Also, the acl keyword in the send_mode and receive_mode strings is
+global to the access point, not local to the command. Thus, the value
+for the acl mode should be the same in all send_mode \201or receive_mode\202
+strings for each command in a command access point. \201The acl for
+send_mode need not be the same as the acl for receive_mode, though\202.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 53 H(XPACmdDel:)WB 113 Sn()WB 19 Sn( remove a command from an XPA command public access point)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 3 38 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ void XPACmdDel\201XPA xpa, XPACmd cmd\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(This routine removes a command from the list of available commands in
+a given XPA. That command will no longer be available for processing.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 54 H(XPAInfoNew:)WB 114 Sn()WB 20 Sn( define an XPA info public access point)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 5 51 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ XPA XPAInfoNew\201char *class, char *name,
+ int \201*info_callback\202\201\202,
+ void *info_data, char *info_mode\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P([NB: this is an experimental interface, new to XPA 2.0, whose value
+and best use is evolving.]
+
+)0 P(A program can register interest in receiving a short message about a
+particular topic from any other process that cares to send such a
+message. Neither has to be an XPA server. For example, if a user
+starts to work with a new image file called new.fits, she might
+wish to alert interested programs about this new file by sending a
+short message using xpainfo:
+) 1 34 PR( xpainfo IMAGEFILE /data/new.fits)RP(
+
+)0 P(In this example, each process that has used the XPAInfoNew\201\202 call to
+register interest in messages associated with the identifier IMAGEFILE
+will have its info_callback\201\202 executed with the following calling
+sequence:
+) 4 64 PR( int info_cb\201void *info_data, void *call_data, char *paramlist\202
+ {
+ XPA xpa = \201XPA\202call_data;
+ })RP(
+)0 P(The arguments passed to this routine are equivalent to those sent in
+the send_callback\201\202 routine. The main difference is that there is no
+buf sent to the info callback: this mechanism is meant for short
+announcement of messages of interest to many clients.
+
+)0 P(The mode string is of the form: "key1=value1,key2=value2,..."
+The following keywords are recognized:
+) 3 69 PR( key value default explanation
+ ------ -------- -------- -----------
+ acl true/false true enable access control)RP(
+)0 P(Because no buf is passed to this callback, the usual buf-related keywords
+are not applicable here.
+
+)0 P(The information sent in the parameter list is arbitrary. However, we
+envision sending information such as file names or XPA access points
+from which to collect more data. Note that the xpainfo program and
+the XPAInfo\201\202 routine that cause the info_callback to execute do not
+wait for the callback to complete before returning.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 55 H(XPAFree:)WB 115 Sn()WB 21 Sn( remove an XPA public access point)EA()EH(
+
+
+) 3 23 PR()BD( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ int XPAFree\201XPA xpa\202;)ES()RP(
+
+
+)0 P(Remove the specified XPA public access point from the name server and
+free all associated storage. Note that removal from the name server
+happens automatically when the process terminates, so this call is not
+generally needed. It is used when public access points are being
+defined temporarily and then destroyed when no longer needed. For
+example, ds9 temporarily creates a public access point when it
+loads a new image for display and destroys it when the image is
+unloaded.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 56 H(XPAMainLoop:)WB 116 Sn()WB 22 Sn( optional main loop for XPA)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 3 21 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ void XPAMainLoop\201\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(Once XPA access points have been defined, a program must enter an
+event loop to watch for requests from external programs. This can be
+done in a variety of ways, depending on whether the event loop is
+processing events other than XPA events. In cases where there are no
+non-XPA events to be processed, the program can simply call the
+XPAMainLoop\201\202 event loop. This loop is implemented essentially as
+follows \201error checking is simplified in this example\202:
+) 8 62 PR( FD_ZERO\201&readfds\202;
+ while\201 XPAAddSelect\201NULL, &readfds\202 \202{
+ if\201 sgot = select\201swidth, &readfds, NULL, NULL, NULL\202 >0 \202
+ XPAProcessSelect\201&readfds, 0\202;
+ else
+ break;
+ FD_ZERO\201&readfds\202;
+ })RP(
+)0 P(The XPAAddSelect\201\202 routine sets up the select\201\202 readfds variable so
+that select\201\202 will wait for I/O on all the active XPA channels. It
+returns the number of XPAs that are active; the loop will end when
+there are no active XPAs. The standard select\201\202 routine is called to
+wait for an external I/O request. Since no timeout struct is passed
+in argument 5, the select\201\202 call hangs until there is an external
+request. When an external I/O request is made, the XPAProcessSelect\201\202
+routine is executed to process the pending requests. In this routine,
+the maxreq value determines how many requests will be processed: if
+maxreq <=0, then all currently pending requests will be processed.
+Otherwise, up to maxreq requests will be processed. \201The most usual
+values for maxreq is 0 to process all requests.\202
+
+)0 P(If a program has its own Unix select\201\202 loop, then XPA access points can
+be added to it by using a variation of the standard XPAMainLoop:
+) 7 39 PR( XPAAddSelect\201xpa, &readfds\202;
+ [app-specific ...]
+ if\201 select\201width, &readfds, ...\202 \202{
+ XPAProcessSelect\201&readfds, maxreq\202;
+ [app-specific ...]
+ FD_ZERO\201&readfds\202;
+ })RP(
+)0 P(XPAAddSelect\201\202 is called before select\201\202 to add the access points.
+If the first argument is NULL, then all active XPA access points
+are added. Otherwise only the specified access point is added.
+After select\201\202 is called, the XPAProcessSelect\201\202 routine can be called
+to process XPA requests. Once again, the maxreq value determines how
+many requests will be processed: if maxreq <=0, then all currently
+pending requests will be processed. Otherwise, up to maxreq requests
+will be processed.
+
+)0 P(XPA access points can be added to
+)0 38 1 A(Xt event loops)38 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( \201using XtAppMainLoop\201\202\202
+and
+)0 39 1 A(Tcl/Tk event loops)39 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( \201using vwait and the Tk loop\202.
+When using XPA with these event loops, you only need to call:
+) 1 44 PR(int XPAXtAddInput\201XtAppContext app, XPA xpa\202)RP(
+or
+) 1 29 PR( int XPATclAddInput\201XPA xpa\202)RP(
+respectively before entering the loop.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 57 H(XPAPoll:)WB 117 Sn()WB 23 Sn( execute existing XPA requests)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 3 36 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ int XPAPoll\201int msec, int maxreq\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(It is sometimes desirable to implement a polling loop, i.e., where one
+checks for and processes XPA requests without blocking. For this
+situation, use the XPAPoll\201\202 routine:
+) 1 32 PR( XPAPoll\201int msec, int maxreq\202;)RP(
+)0 P(The XPAPoll\201\202 routine will perform XPAAddSelect\201\202 and select\201\202, but with a
+timeout specified in millisecs by the msec argument. If one or more
+XPA requests are made before the timeout expires, the XPAProcessSelect\201\202
+routine is called to process those requests. The maxreq value determines
+how many requests will be processed: if maxreq < 0, then no events are
+processed, but instead, the return value indicates the number of events
+that are pending. If maxreq == 0, then all currently pending requests
+will be processed. Otherwise, up to maxreq requests will be processed.
+\201The most usual values for maxreq are 0 to process all requests and 1
+to process one request\202.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 58 H(XPAAtExit:)WB 118 Sn()WB 105 Sn( install exit handler)EA()EH(
+
+
+) 3 23 PR()BD( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ void XPAAtExit\201void\202;)ES()RP(
+
+
+)0 P(XPAAtExit\201\202 will install an exit handler using atexit\201\202 to run XPAFree on all
+XPA access points. This might be useful in cases where Unix sockets are being
+used: if an explicit call to XPAFree\201\202 is not made by the program, the Unix
+socket file will not be deleted immediately without an atexit handler. \201NB: this
+call should not be made in a Tcl/Tk application. Accessing the Tcl native file
+system after Tcl has shut down all file systems causes the Tcl/Tl program to
+crash\202.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 59 H(XPACleanup:)WB 119 Sn()WB 24 Sn( release reserved XPA memory)EA()EH(
+
+
+) 3 24 PR()BD( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ void XPACleanup\201void\202;)ES()RP(
+
+
+)0 P(When XPA is initialized, it allocates a small amount of memory for the
+access control list, temp directory path, and reserved commands. This
+memory is found by valgrind to be "still reachable", meaning that "your
+program didn't free some memory it could have". Calling the
+XPACleanup\201\202 routine before exiting the program will free this memory
+and make valgrind happy.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 60 H(XPA)WB 120 Sn()WB 25 Sn( Server Callback Macros)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 4 57 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ xpa_class, xpa_name, xpa_method, xpa_cmdfd, xpa_datafd,
+ xpa_sendian, xpa_cendian)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(Server routines have access to information about the XPA being called via
+the following macros \201each of which takes the xpa handle as an argument\202:
+) 9 66 PR( macro explanation
+ ------ -----------
+ xpa_class class of this xpa
+ xpa_name name of this xpa
+ xpa_method method string \201inet or local connect info\202
+ xpa_cmdfd fd of command socket
+ xpa_datafd fd of data socket
+ xpa_sendian endian-ness of server \201"little" or "big"\202
+ xpa_cendian endian-ness of client \201"little" or "big")RP(
+)0 P(The argument to these macros is the call_data pointer that is passed
+to the server procedure. This pointer should be type case to XPA
+in the server routine:
+) 1 27 PR( XPA xpa = \201XPA\202call_data;)RP(
+
+)0 P(The most important of these macros is xpa_datafd\201\202. A server routine
+that sets "fillbuf=false" in receive_mode or send_mode can use this
+macro to perform I/O directly to/from the client, rather than using
+buf.
+
+)0 P(The xpa_cendian and xpa_sendian macros can be used together to determine
+if the data transferred from the client is byte swapped with respect
+to the server. Values for these macros are: "little", "big", or "?".
+In order to do a proper conversion, you still need to know the format
+of the data \201i.e., byte swapping is dependent on the size of the data
+element being converted\202.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 61 H(XPA)WB 121 Sn()WB 26 Sn( Race Conditions)EA()EH(
+
+
+Potential XPA race conditions and how to avoid them.
+
+
+)0 P(Currently, there is only one known circumstance in which XPA can get
+\201temporarily\202 deadlocked in a race condition: if two or more XPA
+servers send messages to one another using an XPA client routine such
+as XPASet\201\202, they can deadlock while each waits for the other server
+to respond. \201This can happen if the servers call XPAPoll\201\202 with a
+time limit, and send messages in between the polling call.\202 The
+reason this happens is that both client routines send a string to the
+other server to establish the handshake and then wait for the server
+response. Since each client is waiting for a response, neither is able
+to enter its event-handling loop and respond to the other's
+request. This deadlock will continue until one of the timeout periods
+expire, at which point an error condition will be triggered and the
+timed-out server will return to its event loop.
+
+)0 P(Starting with version 2.1.6, this rare race condition can be
+avoided by setting the XPA_IOCALLSXPA environment variable for servers
+that will make client calls. Setting this variable causes all XPA
+socket IO calls to process outstanding XPA requests whenever the
+primary socket is not ready for IO. This means that a server making a
+client call will \201recursively\202 process incoming server requests while
+waiting for client completion. It also means that a server callback
+routine can handle incoming XPA messages if it makes its own XPA call.
+The semi-public routine oldvalue=XPAIOCallsXPA\201newvalue\202 can be used
+to turn this behavior off and on temporarily. Passing a 0 will turn
+off IO processing, 1 will turn it back on. The old value is returned
+by the call.
+
+)0 P(By default, the XPA_IOCALLSXPA option is turned off, because we judge
+that the added code complication and overhead involved will not be
+justified by the amount of its use. Moreover, processing XPA requests
+within socket IO can lead to non-intuitive results, since incoming
+server requests will not necessarily be processed to completion in the
+order in which they are received.
+
+)0 P(Aside from setting XPA_IOCALLSXPA, the simplest way to avoid this race
+condition is to multi-process: when you want to send a client message,
+simply start a separate process to call the client routine, so that
+the server is not stopped. It probably is fastest and easiest to use
+fork\201\202 and then have the child call the client routine and exit. But
+you also can use either the system\201\202 or popen\201\202 routine to start one
+of the command line programs and do the same thing. Alternatively, you
+can use XPA's internal launch\201\202 routine instead of system\201\202. Based on
+fork\201\202 and exec\201\202, this routine is more secure than system\201\202 because
+it does not call /bin/sh.
+
+)0 P(Starting with version 2.1.5, you also can send an XPAInfo\201\202 message with
+the mode string "ack=false". This will cause the client to send a message
+to the server and then exit without waiting for any return message from
+the server. This UDP-like behavior will avoid the server deadlock when
+sending short XPAInfo messages.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 62 H(Last)WB 122 Sn( updated: September 10, 2003)EH(
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (oom.html) D
+/Ti (Out of Memory) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 27 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 63 H(Xpaoom:)WB 124 Sn()WB 123 Sn( What happens when XPA runs out of memory?)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 64 H(Summary)WB 125 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(When XPA can't allocate memory, it exits. You can arrange to have it call
+longjmp\201\202 instead.
+
+
+)0 2 65 H(Description)WB 126 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(When an XPA server or client cannot allocate memory, it will attempt to
+output an error message and then exit. If this is not satisfactory \201e.g.,
+perhaps your program is interactive and can recover from OOM errors\202, you
+can tell XPA to call longjmp\201\202 to go to a recovery branch. To pass the
+requisite jmp_buf variable to XPA, make the following call:
+) 1 24 PR( XPASaveJmp\201void *env\202;)RP(
+The value of env is the address of a jmp_buf variable that was previously
+passed to setjmp\201\202. For example:
+) 9 62 PR( jmp_buf env;
+ ...
+ if\201 setjmp\201jmp_buf\202 != 0 \202{
+ /* out of memory -- take corrective action, if possible */
+ } else {
+ /* save env for XPA */
+ XPASaveJmp\201\201void *\202&jmp_buf\202;
+ }
+ // enter main loop ...)RP(
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 66 H(Last)WB 127 Sn( updated: April 7, 2009)EH(
+
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (client.html) D
+/Ti (XPA Client API) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 28 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 67 H(XPAClient:)WB 130 Sn()WB 128 Sn( The XPA Client-side Programming Interface)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 68 H(Summary)WB 131 Sn()EH(
+A description of the XPA client-side programming interface.
+
+
+)0 2 69 H(Introduction)WB 132 Sn()WB 129 Sn( to XPA Client Programming)EH()EA(
+)0 P(Sending/receiving data to/from an XPA access point is easy: you
+generally only need to call the XPAGet\201\202 or XPASet\201\202 subroutines.
+) 33 71 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ int )0 31 1 A(XPAGet)31 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ char **bufs, size_t *lens, char **names, char **messages, int n\202;
+
+ int )0 32 1 A(XPASet)32 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ char *buf, size_t len, char **names, char **messages, int n\202;
+
+ int )0 33 1 A(XPAInfo)33 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ char **names, char **messages, int n\202;
+
+ int )0 37 1 A(XPAAccess)37 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ char **names, char **messages, int n\202;
+
+ int )0 34 1 A(XPAGetFd)34 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ int *fds, char **names, char **messages, int n\202;
+
+ int )0 35 1 A(XPASetFd)35 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ int fd, char **names, char **messages, int n\202;
+
+ XPA )0 29 1 A(XPAOpen)29 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201char *mode\202;
+
+ void )0 30 1 A(XPAClose)30 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201XPA xpa\202;
+
+ int )0 36 1 A(XPANSLookup)36 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(\201XPA xpa,)WR(
+ char *template, char *type,
+ char ***classes, char ***names, char ***methods, char ***infos\202;)RP(
+
+)0 2 70 H(Introduction)WB 133 Sn()EH(
+
+To use the XPA application programming interface, a software developer
+generally will include the xpa.h definitions file:
+) 1 18 PR( #include <xpa.h>)RP(
+in the software module that defines or accesses an XPA access point and
+then will link against the libxpa.a library:
+) 1 27 PR( gcc -o foo foo.c libxpa.a)RP(
+XPA has been compiled using both C and C++ compilers.
+)0 P(Client communication with XPA public access points generally is
+accomplished using XPAGet\201\202 or XPASet\201\202 within a program \201or xpaget
+and xpaset at the command line\202. Both routines require specification
+of the name of the access point. If a )0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+is used to specify the access point name \201e.g., "ds9*"\202, then
+communication will take place with all servers matching that template.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 71 H(XPAGet:)WB 134 Sn()WB 31 Sn( retrieve data from one or more XPA servers)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 6 70 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ int XPAGet\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ char **bufs, size_t *lens, char **names, char **messages,
+ int n\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(Retrieve data from one or more XPA servers whose class:name identifier
+matches the specified template.
+
+)0 P(A
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+of the form "class1:name1" is sent to the
+XPA name server, which returns a list of at most n matching XPA
+servers. A connection is established with each of these servers and
+the paramlist string is passed to the server as the data transfer
+request is initiated. If an XPA struct is passed to the call, then the
+persistent connections are updated as described above. Otherwise,
+temporary connections are made to the servers \201which will be closed
+when the call completes\202.
+
+)0 P(The XPAGet\201\202 routine then retrieves data from at most n XPA servers,
+places these data into n allocated buffers and places the buffer
+pointers in the bufs array. The length of each buffer is stored in the
+lens array. A string containing the class:name and ip:port is stored
+in the name array. If a given server returned an error or the server
+callback sends a message back to the client, then the message will be
+stored in the associated element of the messages array. NB: if
+specified, the name and messages arrays must be of size n or greater.
+
+)0 P(The returned message string will be of the form:
+) 1 46 PR( XPA$ERROR error-message \201class:name ip:port\202)RP(
+or
+) 1 42 PR( XPA$MESSAGE message \201class:name ip:port\202)RP(
+)0 P(Note that when there is an error stored in an messages entry, the
+corresponding bufs and lens entry may or may not be NULL and 0
+\201respectively\202, depending on the particularities of the server.
+
+)0 P(The return value will contain the actual number of servers that were
+processed. This value thus will hold the number of valid entries in
+the bufs, lens, names, and messages arrays, and can be used to loop
+through these arrays. In names and/or messages is NULL, no information is
+passed back in that array.
+
+)0 P(The bufs, names, and messages arrays should be freed upon completion \201if
+they are not NULL\202;
+
+)0 P(The mode string is of the form: "key1=value1,key2=value2,..."
+The following keywords are recognized:
+) 4 115 PR( key value default explanation
+ ------ -------- -------- -----------
+ ack true/false true if false, don't wait for ack from server \201after callback completes\202
+ doxpa true/false true client processes xpa requests)RP(
+)0 P(The ack keyword is not very useful, since the server completes the callback
+in order to return the data anyway. It is here for completion \201and perhaps
+for future usefulness\202.
+
+)0 P(Normally, an XPA client will process incoming XPA server requests
+while awaiting the completion of the client request. Setting this
+variable to "false" will prevent XPA server requests from being
+processed by the client.
+
+)0 P()BD(Example:)ES(
+) 25 70 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ #define NXPA 10
+ int i, got;
+ size_t lens[NXPA];
+ char *bufs[NXPA];
+ char *names[NXPA];
+ char *messages[NXPA];
+ got = XPAGet\201NULL, "ds9", "file", NULL, bufs, lens, names, messages,
+ NXPA\202;
+ for\201i=0; i<got; i++\202{
+ if\201 messages[i] == NULL \202{
+ /* process buf contents */
+ ProcessImage\201bufs[i], ...\202;
+ free\201bufs[i]\202;
+ }
+ else{
+ /* error processing */
+ fprintf\201stderr, "ERROR: %s \201%s\202\200n", messages[i], names[i]\202;
+ }
+ if\201 names[i] \202
+ free\201names[i]\202;
+ if\201 messages[i] \202
+ free\201messages[i]\202;
+ })RP(
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 72 H(XPASet:)WB 135 Sn()WB 32 Sn( send data to one or more XPA servers)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 6 66 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ int XPASet\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ char *buf, size_t len, char **names, char **messages,
+ int n\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(Send data to one or more XPA servers whose class:name identifier
+matches the specified template.
+
+)0 P(A
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+of the form "class1:name1" is sent to the
+XPA name server, which returns a list of at most n matching XPA
+servers. A connection is established with each of these servers and
+the paramlist string is passed to the server as the data transfer
+request is initiated. If an XPA struct is passed to the call, the
+persistent connections are updated as described above. Otherwise,
+temporary connections are made to the servers \201which will be closed
+when the call completes\202.
+
+)0 P(The XPASet\201\202 routine transfers data from buf to the XPA servers.
+The length of buf \201in bytes\202 should be placed in the len variable.
+
+)0 P(A string containing the class:name and ip:port of each of these server
+is returned in the name array. If a given server returned an error or
+the server callback sends a message back to the client, then the
+message will be stored in the associated element of the messages
+array. NB: if specified, the name and messages arrays must be of size
+n or greater.
+
+)0 P(The returned message string will be of the form:
+
+) 1 42 PR( XPA$ERROR [error] \201class:name ip:port\202)RP(
+or
+) 1 44 PR( XPA$MESSAGE [message] \201class:name ip:port\202)RP(
+)0 P(The return value will contain the actual number of servers that were
+processed. This value thus will hold the number of valid entries in
+the names and messages arrays, and can be used to loop through these
+arrays. In names and/or messages is NULL, no information is passed back
+in that particular array.
+
+)0 P(The mode string is of the form: "key1=value1,key2=value2,..."
+The following keywords are recognized:
+) 5 115 PR( key value default explanation
+ ------ -------- -------- -----------
+ ack true/false true if false, don't wait for ack from server \201after callback completes\202
+ verify true/false false send buf from XPASet[Fd] to stdout
+ doxpa true/false true client processes xpa requests)RP(
+)0 P(The ack keyword is useful in cases where one does not want to wait for
+the server to complete, e.g. if a lot of processing needs to be done
+by the server on the passed data or when the success of the server
+operation is not relevant to the client.
+
+)0 P(Normally, an XPA client will process incoming XPA server requests
+while awaiting the completion of the client request. Setting this
+variable to "false" will prevent XPA server requests from being
+processed by the client.
+
+)0 P()BD(Example:)ES(
+) 21 75 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ #define NXPA 10
+ int i, got;
+ size_t len;
+ char *buf;
+ char *names[NXPA];
+ char *messages[NXPA];
+ ...
+ [fill buf with data and set len to the length, in bytes, of the data]
+ ...
+ /* send data to all access points */
+ got = XPASet\201NULL, "ds9", "fits", NULL, buf, len, names, messages, NXPA\202;
+ /* error processing */
+ for\201i=0; i<got; i++\202{
+ if\201 messages[i] \202{
+ fprintf\201stderr, "ERROR: %s \201%s\202\200n", messages[i], names[i]\202;
+ }
+ if\201 names[i] \202 free\201names[i]\202;
+ if\201 messages[i] \202 free\201messages[i]\202;
+ })RP(
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 73 H(XPAInfo:)WB 136 Sn()WB 33 Sn( send short message to one or more XPA servers)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 5 58 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ int XPAInfo\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ char **names, char **messages, int n\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(Send a short paramlist message to one or more XPA servers whose
+class:name identifier matches the specified
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(.
+
+)0 P(A
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+of the form "class1:name1" is sent to the
+XPA name server, which returns a list of at most n matching XPA
+servers. A connection is established with each of these servers and
+the paramlist string is passed to the server as the data transfer
+request is initiated. If an XPA struct is passed to the call, then the
+persistent connections are updated as described above. Otherwise,
+temporary connections are made to the servers \201which will be closed
+when the call completes\202.
+
+)0 P(The XPAInfo\201\202 routine does not send data from a buf to the XPA
+servers. Only the paramlist is sent. The semantics of the paramlist
+is not formalized, but at a minimum is should tell the server how to
+get more information. For example, it might contain the class:name
+of the XPA access point from which the server \201acting as a client\202
+can obtain more info using XPAGet.
+
+)0 P(A string containing the class:name and ip:port of each server is
+returned in the name array. If a given server returned an error or
+the server callback sends a message back to the client, then the
+message will be stored in the associated element of the messages
+array. The returned message string will be of the form:
+) 1 48 PR( XPA$ERROR error-message \201class:name ip:port\202)RP(
+or
+) 1 46 PR( XPA$MESSAGE message \201class:name ip:port\202)RP(
+)0 P(The return value will contain the actual number of servers that were
+processed. This value thus will hold the number of valid entries in
+the names and messages arrays, and can be used to loop through these
+arrays. In names and/or messages is NULL, no information is passed back
+in that array.
+
+)0 P(The following keywords are recognized:
+) 3 88 PR( key value default explanation
+ ------ -------- -------- -----------
+ ack true/false true if false, don't wait for ack from server)RP(
+)0 P(When ack is false, XPAInfo\201\202 will not wait for an error return from the XPA
+server. This means, in effect, that XPAInfo will send its paramlist string
+to the XPA server and then exit: no information will be sent from the server
+to the client. This UDP-like behavior is essential to avoid race
+conditions in cases where XPA servers are sending info messages to
+other servers. If two servers try to send each other an info message
+at the same time and then wait for an ack, a race condition will result and
+one or both will time out.
+
+)0 P()BD(Example:)ES(
+) 1 65 PR( \201void\202XPAInfo\201NULL, "IMAGE", "ds9 image", NULL, NULL, NULL, 0\202;)RP(
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 74 H(XPAGetFd:)WB 137 Sn()WB 34 Sn( retrieve data from one or more XPA servers and write to files)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 5 63 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ int XPAGetFd\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ int *fds, char **names, char **messages, int n\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(Retrieve data from one or more XPA servers whose class:name identifier
+matches the specified
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+and write it to files associated with
+one or more standard I/O fds \201i.e, handles returned by open\201\202\202.
+
+)0 P(A
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+of the form "class1:name1" is sent to the
+XPA name server, which returns a list of at most ABS\201n\202 matching XPA
+servers. A connection is established with each of these servers and
+the paramlist string is passed to the server as the data transfer
+request is initiated. If an XPA struct is passed to the call, then the
+persistent connections are updated as described above. Otherwise,
+temporary connections are made to the servers \201which will be closed
+when the call completes\202.
+
+)0 P(The XPAGetFd\201\202 routine then retrieves data from the XPA servers,
+and write these data to the fds associated with one or more fds
+\201i.e., results from open\202. Is n is positive, then there will be n fds
+and the data from each server will be sent to a separate fd. If n is
+negative, then there is only 1 fd and all data is sent to this single
+fd. \201The latter is how xpaget is implemented.\202
+
+)0 P(A string containing the class:name and ip:port is stored in the name
+array. If a given server returned an error or the server callback
+sends a message back to the client, then the message will be stored in
+the associated element of the messages array. NB: if specified, the
+name and messages arrays must be of size n or greater.
+
+)0 P(The returned message string will be of the form:
+) 1 48 PR( XPA$ERROR error-message \201class:name ip:port\202)RP(
+or
+) 1 46 PR( XPA$MESSAGE message \201class:name ip:port\202)RP(
+)0 P(Note that when there is an error stored in an messages entry, the
+corresponding bufs and lens entry may or may not be NULL and 0
+\201respectively\202, depending on the particularities of the server.
+
+)0 P(The return value will contain the actual number of servers that were
+processed. This value thus will hold the number of valid entries in
+the bufs, lens, names, and messages arrays, and can be used to loop
+through these arrays. In names and/or messages is NULL, no information is
+passed back in that array.
+
+)0 P(The mode string is of the form: "key1=value1,key2=value2,..."
+The following keywords are recognized:
+) 3 115 PR( key value default explanation
+ ------ -------- -------- -----------
+ ack true/false true if false, don't wait for ack from server \201after callback completes\202)RP(
+)0 P(The ack keyword is not very useful, since the server completes the callback
+in order to return the data anyway. It is here for completion \201and perhaps
+for future usefulness\202.
+
+)0 P()BD(Example:)ES(
+) 19 72 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+ #define NXPA 10
+ int i, got;
+ int fds[NXPA];
+ char *names[NXPA];
+ char *messages[NXPA];
+ for\201i=0; i<NXPA; i++\202
+ fds[i] = open\201...\202;
+ got = XPAGetFd\201NULL, "ds9", "file", NULL, fds, names, messages, NXPA\202;
+ for\201i=0; i<got; i++\202{
+ if\201 messages[i] != NULL \202{
+ /* error processing */
+ fprintf\201stderr, "ERROR: %s \201%s\202\200n", messages[i], names[i]\202;
+ }
+ if\201 names[i] \202
+ free\201names[i]\202;
+ if\201 messages[i] \202
+ free\201messages[i]\202;
+ })RP(
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 75 H(XPASetFd:)WB 138 Sn()WB 35 Sn( send data from stdin to one or more XPA servers)EA()EH(
+
+)ES(
+) 5 60 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ int XPASetFd\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ int fd, char **names, char **messages, int n\202)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(Read data from a standard I/O fd and send it to one or more XPA
+servers whose class:name identifier matches the specified
+)0 3 1 A(template.
+
+)0 P(A
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+of the form "class1:name1" is sent to the
+XPA name server, which returns a list of at most n matching XPA
+servers. A connection is established with each of these servers and
+the paramlist string is passed to the server as the data transfer
+request is initiated. If an XPA struct is passed to the call, then the
+persistent connections are updated as described above. Otherwise,
+temporary connections are made to the servers \201which will be closed
+when the call completes\202.
+
+)0 P(The XPASetFd\201\202 routine then reads bytes from the specified fd
+until EOF and sends these bytes to the XPA servers.
+The final parameter n specifies the maximum number of servers to contact.
+A string containing the class:name and ip:port of each server is returned in
+the name array. If a given server returned an error, then the error
+message will be stored in the associated element of the messages array.
+NB: if specified, the name and messages arrays must be of size n or greater.
+
+)0 P(The return value will contain the actual number of servers that were
+processed. This value thus will hold the number of valid entries in
+the names and messages arrays, and can be used to loop through these
+arrays. In names and/or messages is NULL, no information is passed back
+in that array.
+
+)0 P(The mode string is of the form: "key1=value1,key2=value2,..."
+The following keywords are recognized:
+) 4 115 PR( key value default explanation
+ ------ -------- -------- -----------
+ ack true/false true if false, don't wait for ack from server \201after callback completes\202
+ verify true/false false send buf from XPASet[Fd] to stdout)RP(
+)0 P(The ack keyword is useful in cases where one does not want to wait for
+the server to complete, e.g. is a lot of processing needs to be done
+on the passed data or when the success of the server operation is not
+relevant to the client.
+
+)0 P()BD(Example:)ES(
+) 19 71 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ #define NXPA 10
+ int i, got;
+ int fd;
+ char *names[NXPA];
+ char *messages[NXPA];
+ fd = open\201...\202;
+ got = XPASetFd\201NULL, "ds9", "fits", NULL, fd, names, messages, NXPA\202;
+ for\201i=0; i<got; i++\202{
+ if\201 messages[i] != NULL \202{
+ /* error processing */
+ fprintf\201stderr, "ERROR: %s \201%s\202\200n", messages[i], names[i]\202;
+ }
+ if\201 names[i] \202
+ free\201names[i]\202;
+ if\201 messages[i] \202
+ free\201messages[i]\202;
+ })RP(
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 76 H(XPAOpen:)WB 139 Sn()WB 29 Sn( allocate a persistent client handle)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 3 26 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ XPA XPAOpen\201char *mode\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(XPAOpen\201\202 allocates a persistent XPA struct that can be used with
+calls to XPAGet\201\202, XPASet\201\202, XPAInfo\201\202, XPAGetFd\201\202, and
+XPASetFd\201\202. Persistence means that a connection to an XPA server is
+not closed when one of the above calls is completed but will be
+re-used on successive calls. Using XPAOpen\201\202 therefore saves the time
+it takes to connect to a server, which could be significant with slow
+connections or if there will be a large number of exchanges with a
+given access point. The mode argument currently is ignored \201"reserved
+for future use"\202.
+
+)0 P(An XPA struct is returned if XPAOpen\201\202 was successful; otherwise NULL
+is returned. This returned struct can be passed as the first argument
+to XPAGet\201\202, etc. Those calls will update the list of active XPA
+connections. Already connected servers \201from a previous call\202 are
+left connected and new servers also will be connected. Old servers
+\201from a previous call\202 that are no longer needed are disconnected.
+The connected servers will remain connected when the next call to
+XPAGet\201\202 is made and connections are once again updated.
+
+)0 P()BD(Example:)ES(
+) 4 22 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ XPA xpa;
+ xpa = XPAOpen\201NULL\202;)RP(
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 77 H(XPAClose:)WB 140 Sn()WB 30 Sn( close a persistent XPA client handle)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 3 25 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ void XPAClose\201XPA xpa\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(XPAClose closes the persistent connections associated with this XPA struct
+and frees all allocated space. It also closes the open sockets connections
+to all XPA servers that were opened using this handle.
+
+)0 P()BD(Example:)ES(
+) 4 18 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ XPA xpa;
+ XPAClose\201xpa\202;)RP(
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 78 H(XPANSLookup:)WB 141 Sn()WB 36 Sn( lookup registered XPA access points)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 6 49 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ int XPANSLookup\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char type,
+ char ***classes, char ***names,
+ char ***methods, char ***infos\202)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(XPA routines act on a class:name identifier in such a way
+that all access points that match the identifier are processed. It is
+sometimes desirable to choose specific access points from the
+candidates that match the
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(. In order to do this, the
+XPANSLookup routine can be called to return a list of matches, so that
+specific class:name instances can then be fed to XPAGet\201\202, XPASet\201\202, etc.
+
+)0 P( The first argument is an optional XPA struct. If non-NULL, the
+existing name server connection associated with the specified xpa is
+used to query the xpans name server for matching templates. Otherwise,
+a new \201temporary\202 connection is established with the name server.
+
+)0 P(The second argument to XPANSLookup is the class:name
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+to match.
+
+)0 P(The third argument for XPANSLookup\201\202 is the type of access and can be
+any combination of:
+) 5 62 PR( type explanation
+ ------ -----------
+ g xpaget calls can be made on this access point
+ s xpaset calls can be made on this access point
+ i xpainfo calls can be made on this access point)RP(
+)0 P(The call typically specifies only one of these at a time.
+
+)0 P(The final arguments are pointers to arrays that will be filled
+in and returned by the name server. The name server will allocate and
+return arrays filled with the classes, names, and methods of all XPA
+access points that match the )0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+and have the specified type. Also returned are info strings, which
+generally are used internally by the client routines. These can be
+ignored \201but the strings must be freed\202. The function returns the
+number of matches. The returned value can be used to loop through the
+matches:
+
+)BD(Example:)ES(
+) 24 73 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ char **classes;
+ char **names;
+ char **methods;
+ char **infos;
+ int i, n;
+ n = XPANSLookup\201NULL, "foo*", "g", &classes, &names, &methods, &infos\202;
+ for\201i=0; i<n; i++\202{
+ [more specific checks on possibilities ...]
+ [perhaps a call to XPAGet for those that pass, etc. ...]
+ /* don't forget to free alloc'ed strings when done */
+ free\201classes[i]\202;
+ free\201names[i]\202;
+ free\201methods[i]\202;
+ free\201infos[i]\202;
+ }
+ /* free up arrays alloc'ed by names server */
+ if\201 n > 0 \202{
+ free\201classes\202;
+ free\201names\202;
+ free\201methods\202;
+ free\201infos\202;
+ })RP(
+)0 P(The specified
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+also can be a host:port specification, for example:
+) 1 14 PR( myhost:12345)RP(
+)0 P(In this case, no connection is made to the name server. Instead, the
+call will return one entry such that the ip array contains the ip for
+the specified host and the port array contains the port. The class
+and name entries are set to the character "?", since the class and
+name of the access point are not known.
+
+
+
+
+)0 2 79 H(XPAAccess:)WB 142 Sn()WB 37 Sn( return XPA access points matching
+template \201XPA 2.1 and above\202)EA()EH(
+
+
+)BD() 5 60 PR( #include <xpa.h>
+
+ int XPAAccess\201XPA xpa,
+ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode,
+ char **names, char **messages, int n\202;)RP()ES(
+
+
+)0 P(The XPAAccess routine returns the public access points that match the
+specified second argument )0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( and
+have the specified access type.
+
+)0 P(A
+)0 3 1 A(template)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+of the form "class1:name1" is sent to the
+XPA name server, which returns a list of at most n matching XPA
+servers. A connection is established with each of these servers and
+the paramlist string is passed to the server as the data transfer
+request is initiated. If an XPA struct is passed to the call, then the
+persistent connections are updated as described above. Otherwise,
+temporary connections are made to the servers \201which will be closed
+when the call completes\202.
+
+)0 P(The XPAAccess\201\202 routine retrieves names from at most n XPA servers
+that match the specified template and that were checked for access
+using the specified mode. The return string contains both the
+class:name and ip:port. If a given server returned an error or the
+server callback sends a message back to the client, then the message
+will be stored in the associated element of the messages array.
+NB: if specified, the name and messages arrays must be of size n or greater.
+
+)0 P(The returned message string will be of the form:
+) 1 46 PR( XPA$ERROR error-message \201class:name ip:port\202)RP(
+)0 P(Note that names of matching registered access points are always
+returned but may not be valid; it is not sufficient to assume that the
+returned number of access points is the number of valid access points.
+Rather, it is essential to check the messages array for error
+messages. Any string in the messages array is an error message and
+indicated that the associated access point is not available.
+
+)0 P(For example, assume that a server registers a number of access points
+but delays entering its event loop. If a call to XPAAccess\201\202 is made
+before the event loop is entered, the call will timeout \201after waiting
+for the long timeout period\202 and return an error of the form:
+) 1 65 PR( XPA$ERROR: timeout waiting for server authentication \201XPA:xpa1\202)RP(
+The error means that the XPA access point has been registered but is
+not yet available \201because events are not being processed\202. When the
+server finally enters its event loop, subsequent calls to XPAAccess\201\202
+will return successfully.
+
+)0 P(NB: This routine only works with XPA servers built with XPA 2.1.x and later.
+Servers with older versions of XPA will return the error message:
+
+ XPA$ERROR invalid xpa command in initialization string
+
+If you get this error message, then the old server actually is ready
+for access, since it got to the point of fielding the query! The
+xpaaccess program, for example, ignores this message in order to work
+properly with older servers.
+
+)0 P(The third argument for XPAAccess\201\202 is the type of access and can be
+any combination of:
+) 5 62 PR( type explanation
+ ------ -----------
+ g xpaget calls can be made on this access point
+ s xpaset calls can be made on this access point
+ i xpainfo calls can be made on this access point)RP(
+)0 P(The mode string argument is of the form: "key1=value1,key2=value2,..."
+The following keywords are recognized:
+) 3 115 PR( key value default explanation
+ ------ -------- -------- -----------
+ ack true/false true if false, don't wait for ack from server \201after callback completes\202)RP(
+)0 P(The ack keyword is not very useful, since the server completes the callback
+in order to return the data anyway. It is here for completion \201and perhaps
+for future usefulness\202.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 80 H(Last)WB 143 Sn( updated: March 10, 2007)EH(
+
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (xt.html) D
+/Ti (XPA/Xt Interface) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 38 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 81 H(XPAXt:)WB 145 Sn()WB 144 Sn( the XPA Interface to Xt \201X Windows\202)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 82 H(Summary)WB 146 Sn()EH(
+Describes how XPA access points can be added to X Toolkit \201Xt\202 programs.
+
+
+)0 2 83 H(Description)WB 147 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(XPA supports Xt programs: you can call XPANew\201\202, XPACmdNew\201\202, or
+XPAInfoNew\201\202 within any C routine to add XPA server callbacks to an Xt
+program. Since an Xt program has its own event loop call \201i.e.,
+XtAppMainLoop\201\202\202, it therefore does not need or want to use the XPA
+even loop. Thus, in order to add XPA access points to the standard Xt
+event loop, the following routine should be called before entering the
+loop:
+) 1 46 PR( int XPAXtAddInput\201XtAppContext app, XPA xpa\202)RP(
+)0 P(The XPAAddAddInput\201\202 routine will add XPA access points to the Xt event
+loop by making calls to the standard XtAppAddInput\201\202 routine. \201If the
+XtAppContext argument is NULL, then the alternate XtAddInput\201\202 routine
+is used instead.\202 If the xpa argument is NULL, then all active XPA
+access points are added to the loop. If xpa is not NULL, then only
+the specified access point is added. The latter type of call is used
+to add new access points from within a callback, after the program has
+entered the XtAppMainLoop\201\202 even loop.
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 84 H(Last)WB 148 Sn( updated: September 10, 2003)EH(
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (tcl.html) D
+/Ti (XPA/Tcl Interface) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 39 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 85 H(XPATcl:)WB 151 Sn()WB 149 Sn( the XPA Interface to the Tcl/Tk Environment)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 86 H(Summary)WB 152 Sn()EH(
+
+)0 P(Tcl/Tk programs can act as XPA clients and/or servers using the Tcl
+interface to XPA that is contained in the libtclxpa.so shared object.
+
+)0 2 87 H(Server)WB 153 Sn( Routines)EH(
+
+) 11 70 PR( set xpa [xpanew class name help sproc sdata smode rproc rdata rmode]
+ xpafree xpa
+ set xpa [xpanew class name help iproc idata imode]
+ set xpa [xpacmdnew class name]
+ xpacmdadd xpa name help sproc sdata smode rproc rdata rmode
+ xpacmddel xpa cmd
+ set val [xparec xpa option]
+ options: name, class, method, cmdfd, datafd, cmdchan, datachan
+ xpasetbuf xpa buf len
+ xpaerror xpa message
+ xpamessage xpa message)RP(
+
+)0 2 88 H(Client)WB 154 Sn( Routines)EH(
+
+) 11 69 PR( set xpa [xpaopen mode]
+ xpaclose xpa
+ set got [xpaget xpa template paramlist mode bufs lens names errs n]
+ set got [xpaget xpa template paramlist mode chans names errs n]
+ set got [xpaset xpa template paramlist mode buf len names errs n]
+ set got [xpasetfd xpa template paramlist mode chan names errs n]
+ set got [xpainfo xpa template paramlist mode names errs n]
+ # NB: 2.1 calling sequence change
+ # set got [xpaaccess template type] \2012.0.5\202
+ set got [xpaaccess xpa template paramlist mode names errs n]
+ set got [xpanslookup template type classes names methods])RP(
+
+
+)0 2 89 H(Description)WB 155 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(You can call XPANew\201\202, XPACmdNew\201\202, or XPAInfoNew\201\202 within a C
+routine to add C-based XPA server callbacks to a TCL/Tk program that
+uses a Tcl/Tk event loop \201either vwait\201\202 or the Tk event loop\202;
+Such a program does not need or want to use the XPA event loop.
+Therefore, in order to add XPA access points to the Tcl/Tk loop, the
+following routine should be called beforehand:
+) 1 30 PR( int XPATclAddInput\201XPA xpa\202;)RP(
+)0 P(Normally, the xpa argument is NULL, meaning that all current XPA
+access points are registered with the event loop. However, if a
+single XPA access point is to be added \201i.e., after the event loop is
+started\202 then the handle of that XPA access point can be passed to
+this routine.
+
+)0 P(The significance of the XPA/TCL interface goes beyond the support for
+using XPA inside C code. The interface allows you to write XPA
+servers and to make calls to the XPA client interface within the Tcl
+environment using the Tcl language directly. The XPA/Tcl
+interface can be loaded using the following package command:
+) 1 28 PR( package require tclxpa 2.0)RP(
+Alternatively, you can load the shared object \201called libtclxpa.so \202 directly:
+) 1 30 PR( load .../libtclxpa.so tclxpa)RP(
+)0 P(Once the tclxpa package is loaded, you can use Tcl versions of XPA
+routines to define XPA servers or make client XPA calls. The
+interface for these routines is designed to match the Unix XPA
+interface as nearly as possible. Please refer to
+)0 15 1 A(XPA Servers)15 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+and
+)0 28 1 A(XPA Clients)28 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+for general information about these routines.
+
+)0 P(The file test.tcl in the XPA source directory gives examples for using the
+XPA/Tcl interface.
+
+)0 P(The following notes describe the minor differences between the interfaces.
+
+)0 2 90 H(XPANew)WB 156 Sn()WB 150 Sn()EA()EH(
+) 1 70 PR()BD( set xpa [xpanew class name help sproc sdata smode rproc rdata rmode])ES()RP(
+)0 P(rproc and sproc routines are routines. The calling sequence of the
+rproc routine is identical to its C counterpart:
+) 1 59 PR( proc rec_cb { xpa client_data paramlist buf len } { ... })RP(
+)0 P(The sproc routine, however is slightly different from its C counterpart
+because of the difficulty of passing data back from the callback to C:
+) 1 51 PR( proc sendcb { xpa client_data paramlist } { ... })RP(
+)0 P(Note that the C-based server's char **buf and int *len arguments are
+missing from the Tcl callback. This is because we did not know how to
+fill buf with data and pass it back to the C routines for communication
+with the client. Instead, the Tcl server callback uses the following
+routine to set buf and len:
+) 1 23 PR( xpasetbuf xpa buf len)RP(
+where:
+) 5 79 PR( arg explanation
+ ------ -----------
+ xpa the first argument of the server callback
+ buf the data to be returned to the client
+ len data length in bytes, \201if absent, use length of the buf object\202)RP(
+)0 P(When this routine is called, a copy of buf is saved for transmission to
+the client.
+
+)0 P(The fact that buf is duplicated means that TCL server writers might wish to
+perform the I/O directly within the callback, rather than have XPA do it
+automatically at the end of the routine. To do this, set:
+) 1 15 PR( fillbuf=false)RP(
+)0 P(in the xpanew smode and then perform I/O through the Tcl channel
+obtained from:
+) 1 34 PR( set dchan [xparec $xpa datachan])RP(
+)0 P(where:
+) 5 79 PR( arg explanation
+ ------ -----------
+ xpa the first argument of the server callback
+ datachan literal string "datachan" that returns the data channel
+ len data length in bytes, \201if absent, use length of the buf object\202)RP(
+)0 P()BD(NB: datachan and cmdchan are not available under Windows. It is
+necessary to use the "raw" equivalents: datafd and cmdfd.)ES(
+
+)0 P(The same considerations apply to the rproc for receive servers: a copy
+of the incoming data is generated to pass to the receive callback. This
+copy again can be avoided by using "fillbuf=false" in the rmode and then
+reading the incoming data from datachan.
+
+)0 P(The send and receive callback routines can use the xpaerror and xpamessage
+routines to send errors and messages back to the client. If you also
+want tcl itself to field an error condition, use the standard return call:
+) 1 56 PR( return ?-code c? ?-errorinfo i? ?-errorcode ec? string)RP(
+)0 P(See the Tcl man page for more info.
+
+)0 2 91 H(XPARec)WB 157 Sn()WB 150 Sn()EA()EH(
+)0 P(The Tcl xparec procedure supplies server routines with access to information
+that is available via macros in the C interface:
+) 1 31 PR( set val [xparec xpa <option>])RP(
+)0 P(where option is: name, class, method, cmdfd, datafd, cmdchan,
+datachan. Note that two additional identifiers, cmdchan and datachan,
+have been added to to provide Tcl channels corresponding to datafd and
+cmdfd. \201These latter might still be retrieved in Tcl and passed back
+to a C routines.\202 An additional option called "version" can be used to
+determine the XPA version used to build the Tcl interface. Note that
+the standard options require a valid XPA handle, but "version" does
+not \201since it simply reports the value of the XPA_VERSION definition
+in the XPA source include file\202.
+
+)0 P()BD(NB: datachan and cmdchan are not available under Windows. It is
+necessary to use the "raw" equivalents: datafd and cmdfd.)ES(
+) 12 58 PR( macro explanation
+ ------ -----------
+ class class of this xpa
+ name name of this xpa
+ method method string \201inet or local connect info\202
+ cmdchan Tcl channel of command socket
+ datachan Tcl channel of data socket
+ cmdfd fd of command socket
+ datafd fd of data socket
+ sendian endian-ness of server \201"little" or "big"\202
+ cendian endian-ness of client \201"little" or "big"
+ version XPA version used to build this code)RP(
+
+)0 P(Under Windows, the Tcl event handler cannot automatically sense when an
+XPA socket is ready for IO \201i.e. Tcl_CreateFileHandler\201\202 is not available
+under Windows\202. The Windows Tcl event handler therefore must be awakened
+occasionally for check for XPA events. This is done using the standard
+Tcl_SetMaxBlockTime\201\202 call. The time parameter is defined in tclloop.c
+and is currently set to 1000 microseconds \2011/1000 of a second\202.
+
+)0 P(The version option can be used to differentiate between source code versions.
+It was created to support legacy Tcl code that needs to maintain the 2.0.5
+calling sequence for xpaaccess. You can use a version test such as:
+) 12 44 PR( if [catch { xparec "" version } version] {
+ puts "pre-2.1.0e"
+ } else {
+ puts [split $version .]
+ }
+) 7 32 PR(
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 92 H(Last)WB 158 Sn( updated: September 10, 2003)EH(
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (env.html) D
+/Ti (The XPA Environment) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 40 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 93 H(XPAEnv:)WB 160 Sn()WB 159 Sn( Environment Variables for XPA Messaging)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 94 H(Summary)WB 161 Sn()EH(
+Describes the environment variables which can be used to tailor the overall
+XPA environment.
+
+
+)0 2 95 H(Description)WB 162 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(The following environment variables are supported by XPA:
+)0 DL()0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_ACL)ES(
+)DD( If )EM(XPA_ACL)ES( is )EM(true)ES(, then
+host-based )0 41 1 A(XPA Access Control)41 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+is turned on and only specified machines can access specified access
+points. If )EM(false)ES(, then access control is turned off and any
+machine can access point. The default is turn turn access control on.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_ACLFILE)ES(
+)DD( If
+)0 41 1 A(XPA Access Control)41 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+is turned on, this variable specifies the name of the file containing
+access control information for all access points started by this user.
+The default file name is: )EM($HOME/acls.xpa)ES(.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_CONNECT_TIMEOUT)ES(
+)DD( When an XPA server first starts up, it immediately tries to
+connect to the XPA name server program \201xpans\202 on the host specified by
+the )EM(XPA_NSINET)ES( variable. \201If this connection fails on the
+local host, and if xpans can be found in the path, then the name
+server is started automatically.\202 Unfortunately, a mis-configured
+network can cause this connect attempt to hang for many seconds while
+the connect\201\202 system call times out. Therefore, an alarm is started
+to interrupt the connect\201\202 call and prevent a long hang. The initial
+value of the alarm timeout is 10 seconds, but can be changed by setting
+this environment variable. If you want to disable the alarm and allow
+the initial connect\201\202 to time out, set the value of this variable to
+0. Normally, users would not change this variable at all.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_CLIENT_DOXPA)ES(
+)DD( Normally, an XPA client \201xpaget, xpaset, etc.\202 will process incoming
+XPA server requests while awaiting the completion of the client request.
+Setting this variable to "false" will prevent XPA server requests from
+being processed by the client.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_DEFACL)ES(
+)DD( If
+)0 41 1 A(XPA Access Control)41 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+is turned on, this variable specifies the default access control
+condition for all access points, if the )EM(XPA_ACLFILE)ES( file does
+not exist. The default acl is: )EM($host:* $host +)ES(, meaning that
+all processes on the host machine have full access to all access points.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_HOST)ES(
+)DD(For the INET socket method, XPA utilizes the canonical hostname \201as
+returned by the gethostname\201\202 routine\202 to construct the IP part of the
+method id. Under some circumstances, this might not be a correct choice
+of name and IP. For example, if an XPA server is started on a machine
+running VPN, you might want to use the VPN name and IP instead of the
+canonical host name, so that other machines in the VPN network can
+access the server. In this case, you can set the XPA_HOST to be
+the VPN name \201if resolvable\202 or, more easily, the VPN IP.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_IOCALLSXPA)ES(
+)DD(
+Setting this variable causes all XPA socket IO calls to process
+outstanding XPA requests whenever the primary socket is not ready for
+IO. This means that a server making a client call will \201recursively\202
+process incoming server requests while waiting for client completion.
+This inter-IO XPA processing avoids a rare
+)0 26 1 A(XPA Race Condition)26 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(: two or more
+XPA servers sending messages to one another using an XPA client
+routine such as XPASet\201\202 can deadlock while each waits for the other
+server to respond. This can happen, for example, if the servers call
+XPAPoll\201\202 with a time limit, and send messages in between the polling call.
+
+)0 P(By default, this option is turned off, because we judge that the added
+code complication and overhead involved will not be justified by the
+amount of its use. Moreover, processing XPA requests within socket IO
+can lead to non-intuitive results, since incoming server requests will
+not necessarily be processed to completion in the order in which they
+are received.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_LOGNAME)ES(
+)DD(XPA preferentially uses the de facto standard environment variable
+LOGNAME to determine the username when registering an access point in
+the name server. If this environment variable has been used for
+something other than the actual user name \201such as a log file name\202,
+unexpected results can ensue. In such cases, use the XPA_LOGNAME
+variable to set the user name. \201If neither exists, then getpwuid\201geteuid\201\202\202
+is used as a last resort\202.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_LONG_TIMEOUT)ES(
+)DD( XPA is designed to allow data to be sent from one process to
+another over a long period of time \201i.e., a program that generates
+image data sends that data to an image display, but slowly\202 but it
+also seeks to prevent hangs. This is done by supporting 2 timeout
+periods: a )EM(short)ES( timeout for protocol communication
+and a )EM(long)ES( for data communication.
+)0 P(The )EM(XPA_LONG_TIMEOUT)ES( variable controls the )EM(long)ES(
+timeout and is used to prevent hangs in cases where communication
+between the client and server that is )EM(not)ES( controlled by the
+XPA interface itself. Transfer of data between client and server, or a
+client's wait for a status message after completion of the server
+callback, are two examples of this sort of communication. By default,
+the )EM(long)ES( timeout is set to 180 seconds.
+Setting the value to -1 will disable )EM(long)ES( timeouts and allow
+an infinite amount of time.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_MAXHOSTS)ES(
+)DD( The maximum number of access points that the programs
+)EM(xpaset)ES(, )EM(xpaget)ES(, and )EM(xpainfo)ES( will
+communicate with at one time. The default is 64, meaning, for
+example, that the )EM(xpaset)ES( program will not send a message
+to more than 100 access points at one time and )EM(xpaget)ES( will
+not retrieve from more than 100 access points at one time.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_METHOD)ES(
+)DD(Determines the socket connection method used by this session of XPA.
+The choices are: )EM(inet)ES( \201to use INET or Internet-based
+sockets\202, )EM(localhost)ES( \201to use the machines localhost inet
+socket\202, or )EM(local \201unix\202)ES( \201to use UNIX sockets\202. The default
+is )EM(INET)ES(. Using the )EM(inet)ES( method will allow access
+from other machines \201subject to access controls\202 but using
+)EM(localhost)ES( or )EM(local)ES( will not. Localhost is most useful
+for private access and when the machine in question is not connected
+to the Internet. The unix method also can be used for private access
+and non-Internet connections \201Unix platforms only\202.
+)0 P(Once defined, the first registration of an XPA access point will
+ensure that an instance of the
+)0 14 1 A(XPA Name Server \201xpans\202)14 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+is running that handles that connection method. All new access points
+will use the new connection method but existing access points will use
+the original method.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_NSINET)ES(
+)DD( For the )EM(inet)ES( method of socket connection, this variable
+specifies the host and port on which the
+)0 14 1 A(XPA Name Server \201xpans\202)14 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+is listens for new access points. The default is )EM($host:$port)ES(,
+meaning that the default XPA port \20114285\202 on the current machine
+\201as returned by gethostname\201\202\202 is used. If several machines were all
+accessing the same XPA access points, you would use this variable to
+specify that they all use the same name server to find out about these
+access points. For example, a value of )EM(myhost:$port)ES( would
+mean that the xpans name server is running on myhost and uses the
+default port 12345. All machines would then get the XPA access points
+registered with that name server, subject to access controls.
+)0 P(The port used by xpans to register its XPA access point normally is
+taken to be one greater than the port on which it receives new access
+points from XPA servers. You can specify a specific access point port
+using the syntax machine:port1,port2, i.e., the access point port is
+specified after the comma. For example, $host:12345,23456 will listen
+for new access ports on 12345 and will accept XPA commands on 23456.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_NSREGISTER)ES(
+)DD(This boolean variable specifies whether a server registers its XPA
+access point with the specified xpans name server. The default is
+)EM(true)ES(. If set to )EM(false)ES(, the access point still is
+set up but it is not registered with xpans and therefore cannot be
+accessed by name. \201It can be accessed by method, if the latter is
+known.\202 Note that an access point can be registered later on \201using
+-remote or -proxy, for example\202. This variable mainly is useful in
+cases where the Internet configuration is broken \201so that registration
+causes a DNS hang\202 but you still wish to and can use the server with a
+remote xpans \201e.g., ds9's Virtual Observatory capability\202.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_NSUNIX)ES(
+)DD( For the )EM(local)ES( method of socket connection, this variable
+specifies the name of the Unix file that will be used to access the
+)0 14 1 A(XPA Name Server \201xpans\202)14 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(. The default is
+)EM(xpans_unix)ES(. This variable is not usually needed. Note that
+is the )EM(local)ES( socket method is used, then remote machines will
+not be able to access the xpans name server or the registered XPA access
+points.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_NSUSERS)ES(
+)DD(This variable specifies whether other users' access points will be
+returned by the
+)0 14 1 A(XPA Name Server \201xpans\202)14 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D( for use by
+)EM(xpaget)ES(, )EM(xpaset)ES(, etc.
+Generally speaking, it is sufficient to run one xpans name server per
+machine and register the access points for all users with that xpans.
+This means, for example, that if you request information from
+ds9 by running:
+) 1 21 PR( xpaget ds9 colormap)RP(
+you might get information from your own ds9 as well as
+from another user running ds9 on the same machine. The
+)EM(XPA_NSUSERS)ES( variable controls whether you want such access
+to the access points of other users.
+By default, only your own access points are returned, so
+that, in the example above, you would only get the colormap information
+from the ds9 you registered. If, however, you had set the value of the
+)EM(XPA_NSUSERS)ES( variable to )EM(eric,fred)ES(, then you would be
+able to communicate with both eric and fred's access points. Note that
+this variable can be overridden using the )EM(-u)ES( switch on the
+)EM(xpaget)ES(, )EM(xpaset)ES(, and )EM(xpainfo)ES( programs.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_PORT)ES(
+)DD(
+A semi-colon delimited list of user specified ports to use for specific
+XPA access points. The format is each specification is:
+) 1 28 PR(class:template port1[ port2])RP(
+where )BD(port1)ES( is the main \201command\202 port for the access point and
+)BD(port2)ES( is the \201secondary\202 data port. If port2 is not specified,
+it defaults to a value of 0 \201meaning the system assigns the port\202.
+
+)0 P(Specification of specific ports is useful, for example, when a machine
+outside a firewall needs to communicate with a machine inside a
+firewall. In such a case, the firewall should be configured to allow
+socket connections to both the command and data port from the outside
+machine, and the inside XPA program should be started up with the
+outside machine in its ACL list. Then, when the inside program is
+started with specified ports, outside XPA programs can use
+"machine:port" to contact the inside access points, instead of the
+access point names. That is, the machine outside the firewall does not
+need access to the XPA name server:
+) 2 62 PR(export XPA_PORT="DS9:ds9 12345 12346" # on machine "inside"
+cat foo.fits | xpaset inside:12345 fits # on machine "outside")RP(
+Note that 2 ports are required for full XPA communication and
+therefore 2 ports should be specified to go through a firewall. The
+second port assignment is not important if you simply are assigning
+the command port in order to communicate commands with a known
+port \201e.g., to bypass the xpans name server\202. If only one \201command\202
+port is specified, the system will negotiate a random data port and
+everything will work properly.
+
+)0 P(This support is somewhat experimental. If you run into problems, please
+let us know.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_PORTFILE)ES(
+)DD(
+A list of user-specified port to use for specific xpa access points.
+The format of the file is:
+) 1 28 PR(class:template port1 [port2])RP(
+where )BD(port1)ES( is the main port for the access point and
+)BD(port2)ES( is the data port. If port2 is not specified, it defaults
+to a value of 0 \201meaning the system assigns the port\202. See
+)BD(XPA_PORT)ES( above for an explanation of user-specified ports.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_SHORT_TIMEOUT)ES(
+)DD( XPA is designed to allow data to be sent from one process to
+another over a long period of time \201i.e., a program that generates
+image data sends that data to an image display, but slowly\202 but it
+also seeks to prevent hangs. This is done by supporting 2 timeout
+periods: a )EM(short)ES( timeout for protocol communication
+and a )EM(long)ES( for data communication.
+)0 P(The )EM(XPA_SHORT_TIMEOUT)ES( variable
+controls the )EM(short)ES( timeout and is used to prevent hangs
+in cases where the XPA protocol requires internal communication between
+the client and server that is controlled by the XPA interface
+itself. Authentication is an example of this sort of communication,
+as is the establishment of a data channel between the two processes.
+The default value for the )EM(short)ES( is 30 seconds \201which is
+a pretty long time, actually\202. Setting the value to -1 will disable
+)EM(short)ES( timeouts and allow an infinite amount of time.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_SIGUSR1)ES(
+)DD( If the value of this variable is )EM(true)ES(, then XPA will
+catch SIGUSR1 signals when performing an I/O operation in order to
+curtail that operation. This facility allows users to send a SIGUSR1
+signal to an XPA server if a client is hanging up the server by
+sending or receiving data too slowly \201timeouts also can be used -- see
+above\202. When enabled in this way, the SIGUSR1 signal is ignored at all other
+times, so that its safe to send the signal at any time. If the
+variable is set to )EM(false)ES(, then SIGUSR1 is not used at
+all. Turning off SIGUSR1 would be desired in cases there the program
+uses SIGUSR1 for some other reason and does not want XPA interfering.
+The default is to use the signal.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_TIMESTAMP_ERRORS)ES(
+)DD( If )EM(XPA_TIMESTAMP_ERRORS)ES( is )EM(true)ES(, then error
+messages will include a date/time string. This can be useful when
+XPA errors are being saved in an error log \201e.g. Web/CGI use\202. The
+default is false.)LD(
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_TMPDIR)ES(
+)DD( This variable specifies the directory into which XPA logs, Unix
+socket files \201when )EM(XPA_METHOD)ES( is )EM(local)ES(\202, etc. are
+stored. The default is )EM(/tmp/.xpa)ES(.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_VERBOSITY)ES(
+)DD( Specify the verbosity level of error messages. If the value is
+set to )EM(0)ES(, )EM(false)ES(, or )EM(off)ES(, then no error
+messages are printed to stderr. If the value is )EM(1)ES(, then
+important XPA error messages will be output. If the value is
+set to )EM(2)ES(, XPA warnings about out-of-sync messages will also
+be output. These latter almost always can be ignored.
+
+)0 P()0 DT()BD(XPA_VERSIONCHECK)ES(
+)DD( Specify whether a new access point should check its major and minor XPA
+version number against the version used by the xpans name server at
+registration time. The default is )EM(true)ES(. When checking is
+performed, a warning is issued if the server major version is found to
+be greater than the xpans version. Note that the check is performed
+both by the XPA server and by the xpans process and warnings will be
+issued by each. Also, instead of the values of )EM(true)ES( or
+)EM(false)ES(, you can give this variable an integer value n. In this
+case, each version checking process \201i.e., the XPA-enabled server or
+xpans\202 will print out a maximum of n warning messages \201after which
+version warnings are silently swallowed\202.
+)0 P(In general, it is a bad idea to run an XPA-enabled server program
+using a version of XPA newer than the basic xpaset, xpaget, xpaaccess,
+xpans programs. This sort of mismatch usually will not work due to
+protocol changes.
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 96 H(Last)WB 163 Sn( updated: December 23, 2009)EH(
+
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (acl.html) D
+/Ti (XPA Access Control) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 41 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 97 H(XPAAcl:)WB 165 Sn()WB 164 Sn( Access Control for XPA Messaging)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 98 H(Summary)WB 166 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(XPA supports host-based access control for each XPA access point. You
+can enable/disable access control using the XPA_ACL environment
+variable. You can specify access to specific XPA access points for
+specific machines using the XPA_DEFACL and XPA_ACLFILE environment
+variables. By default, an XPA access point is accessible only to
+processes running on the same machine \201same as X Windows\202.
+
+
+)0 2 99 H(Description)WB 167 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(When INET sockets are in use \201the default, as specified by the
+)EM(XPA_METHOD)ES( environment variable\202, XPA supports a host-based
+access control mechanism for individual access points. This mean that
+access can be specified for get, set, or info operations for each
+access point on a machine by machine basis. For LOCAL sockets, access
+is restricted \201by definition\202 to the host machine.
+
+)0 P(XPA access control is enabled by default, but can be turned off by
+setting the )EM(XPA_ACL)ES( environment variable to )EM(false)ES(.
+In this case, any process can access any XPA server.
+
+)0 P(Assuming that access control is turned on, the ACL for an individual
+XPA access point is set up when that access point is registered
+\201although it can be changed later on; see below\202. This can be done in
+one of two ways:
+
+Firstly, the )EM(XPA_ACLFILE)ES( environment variable can defined to
+point to a file of access controls for individual access points. The format
+of this file is:
+) 1 18 PR( class:name ip acl)RP(
+The first argument is a template that specifies the class:name of the
+access point covered by this ACL. See
+)0 3 1 A(XPA Access Points and Templates)3 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+for more information about xpa templates.
+
+)0 P(The second argument is the IP address \201in human-readable format\202 of
+the machine which is being given access. This argument can be
+)EM(*)ES( to match all IP addresses. It also can be )EM($host)ES(
+to match the IP address of the current host.
+
+)0 P(The third argument is a string combination of )EM(s)ES(, )EM(g)ES(,
+or )EM(i)ES( to allow )EM(xpaset)ES(, )EM(xpaget)ES(, or
+)EM(xpainfo)ES( access respectively. The ACL argument can be
+)EM(+)ES( to give )EM(sgi)ES( access or it can be )EM(-)ES( to turn
+off all access.
+
+)0 P(For example,
+) 3 21 PR( *:xpa1 somehost sg
+ *:xpa1 myhost +
+ * * g)RP(
+will allow processes on the machine somehost to make xpaget and xpaset calls,
+allow processes on myhost to make any call, and allow all other hosts to
+make xpaget \201but not xpaset\202 calls.
+
+Secondly, if the )EM(XPA_ACLFILE)ES( does not exist, then a single
+default value for all access points can be specified using the
+)EM(XPA_DEFACL)ES( environment variable. The default value for this
+variable is:
+) 1 34 PR( #define XPA_DEFACL "*:* $host +")RP(
+meaning that all access points are fully accessible to all processes
+on the current host. Thus, in the absence of any ACL environment variables,
+processes on the current host have full access to all access points
+created on that host. This parallels the X11 xhost mechanism.
+
+)0 P(Access to an individual XPA access point can be changed using the -acl
+parameter for that access point. For example:
+) 1 34 PR( xpaset -p xpa1 -acl "somehost -")RP(
+will turn off all access control for somehost to the xpa1 access point, while:
+) 1 38 PR( xpaset -p XPA:xpa1 -acl "beberly gs")RP(
+will give beberly xpaget and xpaset access to the access point whose
+class is XPA and whose name is xpa1.
+)0 P(Similarly, the current ACL for a given access point can be retrieved using:
+) 1 18 PR( xpaget xpa1 -acl)RP(
+Of course, you must have xpaget access to this XPA access point to
+retrieve its ACL.
+
+)0 P(Note that the XPA access points registered in the )EM(xpans)ES(
+program also behave according to the ACL rules. That is, you cannot
+use xpaget to view the access points registered with xpans unless
+you have the proper ACL.
+
+)0 P(Note also when a client request is made to an XPA server, the access
+control is checked when the initial connection is established. This
+access in effect at this time remains in effect so long as the client
+connection is maintained, regardless of whether the access fro that
+XPA is changed later on.
+
+)0 P(We recognize that host-based access control is only relatively secure
+and will consider more stringent security \201e.g., private key\202 in the
+future if the community requires such support.
+
+
+
+
+
+)0 P()0 0 1 A(Go to XPA Help Index)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)0 5 100 H(Last)WB 168 Sn( updated: September 10, 2003)EH(
+
+)WB NL
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+DS
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+/Ti (XPA ChangeLog) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
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+)0 2 101 H(XPA)WB 169 Sn( ChangeLog)EH(
+
+)0 P(This ChangeLog covers the XPA 2 implementation. It will be updated
+as we continue to develop and improve XPA. The up-to-date version can be
+found )R1 2 A(here)EA(.
+
+)0 2 102 H()WB 170 Sn( Public Release 2.1.15 \201July 23, 2013\202)EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( Added support for large data transfers
+)0 P()-1 LI( XPAGet and XPASet now pass size_t instead of int for lengths
+)0 P()-1 LI( Send and receive callbacks now pass size_t instead of int for lengths
+)0 P()-1 LI( Port to mingw \201Windows\202)LU(
+
+
+)0 2 103 H()WB 171 Sn( Public Release 2.1.14 \201June 7, 2012\202)EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( Fixed several memory leaks in the Tcl wrappers \201tcl.c\202.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Use Tcl stubs library for linking shared Tcl, if available.)LU(
+
+)0 2 104 H()WB 172 Sn( Public Release 2.1.13 \201April 14, 2011\202)EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( An atexit handler is no longer installed automatically \201it crashes
+Tcl 8.5.8 applications\202. Call XPAAtExit\201void\202 to install the handler.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Removed permission checking from Find\201\202 on cygwin systems. This was broken
+by Windows 7.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Removed addition of -no-cpp-precomp flag from gcc 4.2 and beyond \201Mac\202.)LU(
+
+)0 2 105 H()WB 173 Sn( Public Release 2.1.12 \201January 26, 2010\202)EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( Added XPA_HOST environment variable to allow users to specify
+the hostname \201and hence, ip\202 component of the INET method id. This is
+useful, for example, if you want to register an access point using a
+VPN-generated IP instead of the canonical IP.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fix typo in Tcl binding to xpainfo causing a crash after 2 invocations.)LU(
+
+)0 2 106 H()WB 174 Sn( Public Release 2.1.11 \201December 7, 2009\202)EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( Generalized XPANSKeepAlive\201\202 to send messages to xpans, proxy xpans, or
+both. The default is to send just to proxies \201e.g. chandra-ed\202.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Changed XPANSKeepAlive\201\202 to send an in-band new-line char to
+xpans, changed xpans to handle an in-band new-line as a keep-alive
+message. Necessitated by Cisco routers that clear the URG flag in
+a TCP packet, breaking OOB data transfer for the whole Internet, as
+well as the OOB-based keep-alive implemented in xpans.
+)0 P()-1 LI( In xpans, print warning when the keep-alive option switch is used.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Port to mingw \201thanks to B.Schoenhammer\202
+)0 P()-1 LI( Change OOB character sent by xpans keepalive to a space, trying to working around cisco routers that force OOB data into the inbound stream.
+)0 P()-1 LI( fix gcc fprintf warning in xpans.c)LU(
+
+)0 2 107 H()WB 175 Sn( Public Release 2.1.10 \201September 1, 2009\202)EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( Update mklib and configure.ac to support 64-bit builds on Macs.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed bug in XPAAccess\201\202 in which the returned names could have an extra
+\201bogus\202 character when the target is an explicit ip:port or local socket file.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Add setjmp/longjmp support to xalloc.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Add XPASaveJmp\201void *env\202 as a high-level interface to xalloc_savejmp\201\202;)LU(
+
+)0 2 108 H()WB 176 Sn( Internal Release 2.1.9)EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( Fixed a bug that prevented an access point starting with a number
+from being recognized peoperly. NB: a pure number still signifies a
+port on the current machine. Also num:num signifies ip:port, where ip
+can be a pure hex value or the canonical form vvv.xxx.yyy.zzz.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Modified internal Launch\201\202 routine to use posix_spawn\201\202, if necessary.
+This is required for OS X 10.5 \201leopard\202, which frowns upon use of fork\201\202
+and exec\201\202. Also modified zprocess routines to use Launch\201\202.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added XPASetFree\201xpa, void \201*myfree\202\201void *\202\202 routine to allow callbacks
+to specify a free routine other than malloc free \201e.g. Perl garbage collection\202.
+)0 P()-1 LI( XPACmdAdd\201\202 now checks to ensure that it was passed an XPA struct created
+by XPACmdNew\201\202.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Change launch.h to xlaunch.h to avoid conflict with OS X.)LU(
+
+)0 2 109 H()WB 177 Sn( Public Release 2.1.8 \2011 November 2007\202)EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( A public release to complete current XPA development work.)LU(
+
+)0 2 110 H()WB 178 Sn( Patch Release 2.1.7b[1,2] \201Feb 22, 2006; March 8, 2007\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added a convenience null to the end of the buffers returned by XPAGet.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added code to avoid calling atexit routine if a fork'ed child
+calls exit\201\202 instead of _exit\201\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added XPA_CLIENT_DOXPA environment variable to turn off client
+processing of xpa server requests.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added --version to xpaset, xpaget, xpainfo, xpaaccess, xpans to
+display XPA version and exit.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added support for integrating XPA into a Gtk loop.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( xpaaccess now returns its answer in the error code as well as to stdout
+\201without the -n switch, it returns 1 for a match, with the -n switch,
+the number of matches is returned\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed bug which prevented xpans from being started up automatically
+by an xpa server if its pathname contained a space character.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed bug in MINGW port of xpans in which an XPA server that
+terminated via an interrupt was not being properly removed from the
+list of registered access points.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added XPA_LOGNAME to override LOGNAME when registering username
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Upgraded swish-e indexing code to 2.4.5.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 111 H()WB 179 Sn( Patch Release 2.1.6 \2014 May 2005\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added -P switch to xpans to enable experimental proxy support
+\201default is disabled\202. An argument of 1 processes proxy requests in
+the same thread as xpans requests, while an argument of 2 processes
+proxy requests in a separate thread. \201The latter is recommended to
+avoid xpans timeouts, since xpa callback processing can take a long
+time.\202
+
+)0 P(
+)-1 LI( Added ability to build shared libraries \201done automatically with
+configure --enable-shared\202 with compilers other than gcc.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Made yet another attempt to build shared libraries under OS X.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed a server bug in Tcl support under Windows \201introduced early
+in 2.1.6\202 which caused an occasional SEGV.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed race condition in cases where 2 or more servers makes client calls
+to one another.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed bug in the XPA handler routine in which an access point was
+turned off if an error occurred in that routine \201as opposed to the
+user-defined callback routine\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed race condition when "ack=false" flag \201or -n\202 is used with XPASet\201\202
+\201or xpaset\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added defensive code to XPA handler to ensure that the passed XPA record
+is valid.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Tcl/XPA servers such as ds9 were not turning off select\201\202 on the
+xpa channels inside an xpa callback, as required. This is now fixed.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added timestamps to most server and client error messages if the
+XPA_TIMESTAMP_ERRORS variable is set. This is useful when XPA errors are
+being logged in an error log \201e.g. Web/CGI use\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Generated PostScript and PDF versions of the help pages.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Moved OPTIONS section before \201often-lengthy\202 DESCRIPTION section in
+man pages.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( All memory allocation now performs error checking on the result.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Removed some compiler warnings that surfaced when using gcc -O2.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Updated configure.ac to better support Tcl in Panther with Apple
+Frameworks.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 112 H()WB 180 Sn( Patch Release 2.1.5 \20112 January 2004\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed bug in XPAPoll\201\202. Erroneously, no requests were being
+processed when maxreq==0. Now, all pending events are processed, as
+per the documentation.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added ack=false to XPAInfo\201\202 \201and corresponding -n to xpainfo\202
+so that client does not wait for a response from the server. This is
+essential in cases where XPA servers wish to send info messages to
+one another without causing a race condition.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Generated man pages from the html pages. These are installed
+automatically at build time.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( The xpans program with Unix sockets now uses a lock file to signal
+that it is running, in order to avoid a potential \201but rare\202 race
+condition at startup.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Code that calls Unix-type bind\201\202 now manipulate umask\201\202 to ensure that
+all users have write permissions to the socket file \201OS X apparently uses
+these permissions while previous platforms ignore them\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Configure now checks for socklen_t type \201OS X does not define it\202.
+
+)0 P(
+)-1 LI( Added an atexit function to run XPAFree. The aim here is to delete Unix
+socket files on exiting.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Under Windows, the Tcl event-handling code now blocks for 1/1000 of a
+second instead of not blocking at all \201which inadvertently used 100% of cpu\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Upgraded Tcl/Tk support to 8.4.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Made another round of checks was made through all instances of
+strcat, strcpy, etc. to look for potential buffer overflows. Changed
+all instances of sprintf\201\202 to snprintf\201\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Class and name designators are now limited to 1024 characters, for
+no particular reason.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( The obsolete $SAORD_BIN variable was being added to the path when
+searching for xpans. This is no longer the case.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed non-ANSI compiler errors in both xpa.c and xpans.c.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed minor problems to support compilation with g++.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Ported to Intel icc and gcc 3.3 compilers.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Upgraded autoconf to 2.57. Included in this upgrade is a change that
+makes gcc the default compiler \201use "configure CC=cc" to change this\202.
+Also, by default, the Tcl shared object is no longer automatically built
+if the Tcl libraries are used. Use the --enable-tclshlib switch in
+configure to enable this feature.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Changed license from public domain to GNU GPL.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 113 H()WB 181 Sn( Patch Release 2.1.4 \20124 March 2003\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Made inet method unique, even when hosts are behind a firewall using
+the same ports \201on different local machines\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( The initial connection from an xpa server to a local xpans now is
+controlled by a timeout \201default 5 sec, controlled by XPA_CONNECT_TIMEOUT
+variable\202. This should prevent a hang on connect\201\202 if the network
+is not set up correctly.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed rare race condition when an XPA server callback performed its own
+XPAGet or XPASet call to another XPA server.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Use POSIX O_NONBLOCK for non-blocking I/O in fcntl call if it
+exists, instead of O_NDELAY.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 114 H()WB 182 Sn( Patch Release 2.1.3 \20126 September 2002\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added -k [sec] switch to xpans to support sending one-byte keepalive
+messages from xpans to registered xpa servers.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added XPANSKeepAlive routine \201and Tcl equivalent\202 to allow
+xpa servers to send a one-byte keepalive message to xpans.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 115 H()WB 183 Sn( Patch Release 2.1.2 \20118 July 2002\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( The "-help" reserved command now also displays the XPA version, if
+no explicit sub-commands are specified.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Change internal state of xpans proxy to save ip:port value of a
+server behind a NAT firewall. This is required to give some hope of
+distinguishing multiple instances of ds9 running behind NAT.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 116 H()WB 184 Sn( Patch Release 2.1.1 \20120 June 2002\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added a version check between xpans and an access point,
+performed when it gets registered by an XPA server. If the server
+has a version greater than the xpans version, a warning is issued by
+both programs.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added a boolean XPA_NSREGISTER environment variable to allow an
+XPA server to skip xpans registration. The default is to register with
+the name server. If set to "false", the access point still is set up
+but it is not registered with an xpans. It can be registered later on
+\201using -remote or -proxy, for example\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed bug in which xpans was still listening on any interface when
+XPA_METHOD was localhost \201instead of just listening on localhost\202.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 117 H()WB 185 Sn( Public Release 2.1.0 \20122 April 2002\202)EH(
+
+)0 P(New features include:
+
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( Support for proxy access to XPA servers \201e.g. ds9\202 situated
+behind a firewall \201useful for NVO-type applications\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Improved support for allowing remote machines access rights to the
+XPA access points \201useful for NVO-type applications\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Ability for XPAAccess\201\202 routine and xpaaccess program to contact XPA
+ directly.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Support for a clipboard access point that allows clients to store ASCII
+state information in an XPA-enabled server.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Improved support for Windows platform, as well as new support for Mac OSX.)LU(
+
+)0 2 118 H()WB 186 Sn( Pre-Release 2.1.0e \2012 April 2002\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Removed the environment variable generated by each XPA access
+point \201of the form XPA_name=method\202. The putenv\201\202 call was causing ds9
+to crash under both Linux and LinuxPPC during a socket operation. We
+suspect a bug in putenv but cannot prove it and this feature is not
+essential, so ...
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 119 H()WB 187 Sn( Pre-Release 2.1.0e \2011 April 2002\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed an uninitialized variable in xpamb which prevented it from
+working at all on some systems.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Changed xpamb switch from "-add" to "-data" \201to store named data\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Changed how xpamb works with xpaget so that xpamb can return data
+from XPA access points as well as from stored data. \201Previous versions
+only returned stored data.\202 Now, you can retrieve stored data
+explicitly using the -info and/or -data switches. For example:
+) 1 24 PR( xpaget xpamb -info foo)RP(
+will return info about the previously stored data named foo. If
+neither switch is present, then the name is assumed to be an XPA access
+point.)LU(
+
+)0 2 120 H()WB 188 Sn( Pre-Release 2.1.0e \20125 March 2002\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Changed symbol for default port from "*" to "$port" to avoid
+a syntactical conflict between class:* and machine:* when processing an
+XPA access point class:name specification. Thus, the default inet
+method now is '$host:$port' instead of '$host:*'.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 121 H()WB 189 Sn( Pre-Release 2.1.0e \20119 March 2002\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Removed timeout check when reading data \201in clients using xpaget
+and servers filling the data buffer\202. We have more and more cases
+where we need to wait a long time to retrieve data \201e.g., slow
+networks or receiving data being compressed on the fly\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Moved call to sigaction\201SIGCHLD,...\202 out of XPAOpen\201\202, so that it
+is only executed when needed by XPAGet\201\202/XPASet\201\202 routines called from
+within xpans/proxy. But then changed logic to use a double fork\201\202 instead
+of sigaction\201\202 to prevent zombies \201Stevens Adv. Programming p 202\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Each XPA access point now generates an environment variable of the
+form XPA_name=method so that children can communicate with the parent access
+point more easily.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added version option to Tcl xparec:
+) 5 44 PR( if [catch { xparec "" version } version] {
+ puts "pre-2.1.0e"
+ } else {
+ puts [split $version .]
+ })RP(
+to help differentiate between XPA versions within Tcl code.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 122 H()WB 190 Sn( Pre-Release 2.1.0e \20114 February 2002\202)EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( Fixed client handling of out-of-sync messages.)LU(
+
+)0 2 123 H()WB 191 Sn( Pre-Release 2.1.0e \20111 February 2002\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed client.c/xopen\201\202 so that it does not open an extra socket.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed xpainfo/xopen\201\202 to prevent client from hanging waiting for ack.
+
+)0 P(
+)-1 LI( Modified stest to generate xpaaccess points xpa, xpa1, c_xpa, and
+i_xpa \201or more generally, , 1, c_, i\202 to allow
+more flexible testing of templates. Also added -a for testing XPAAccess\201\202.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 124 H()WB 192 Sn( Beta Release 2.1.0b10 \20131 January 2002\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added support for Mac OSX/Darwin to configure file.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 125 H()WB 193 Sn( Beta Release 2.1.0b9 \20126 January 2002\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed bug in client library that caused XPAAccess\201\202 call to hang.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 126 H()WB 194 Sn( Beta Release 2.1.0b8 \2014 January 2002\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Made modifications to Makefile.in to make releases easier.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added instructions to Makefile.in so that xpa.h will always have
+correct #defines for XPA_VERSION, XPA_MAJOR_VERSION, XPA_MINOR_VERSION,
+and XPA_PATCH_LEVEL.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 127 H()WB 195 Sn( Beta Release 2.1.0b7 \20121 December 2001\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added -proxy switch to -remote sub-command to allow remote access
+through a firewall, using xpans as a proxy server. The support for proxy
+processing required a change to the client/server protocol. This means
+that new xpa servers will not work with old xpa clients \201although new
+xpa clients will work with old xpa servers\202. For details about proxy
+firewall support, see http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/xpa/inet.html.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed Tcl support for XPA under Windows/Cygwin by re-writing
+the code used to add XPA to the Tcl event loop. This fix makes ds9
+support for XPA much more stable under Windows.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added the shutdown\201\202 call to XPA under Cygwin/Windows before
+closing send\201\202 sockets. It appears that a Cygwin recv\201\202 socket call
+does not always sense when the other end closes the socket using
+close\201\202. This measure must be considered a hack, since the actual
+problem was never resolved.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added code to protect accept\201\202 and select\201\202 calls from interrupts.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Extended syntax of the environment variable XPA_NSINET to:
+) 1 43 PR( setenv XPA_NSINET host:port[,port[,port]])RP(
+to allow specification of the XPA access point port for xpans,
+as well as the proxy data port.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Modified xpans log file so that it contains the xpaset commands
+required to reconnect with xpa servers.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( xpans now deletes its Unix socket files.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 128 H()WB 196 Sn( Beta Release 2.1.0b6 \20129 October 2001\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Implemented a reserve public access point named -clipboard so
+that clients can store ASCII state information on any number of named
+clipboards. Clipboards of the same name created by clients on
+different machines are kept separate. The syntax for creating a
+clipboard is:
+) 3 65 PR( [data] | xpaset [server] -clipboard add|append [clipboard_name]
+ xpaset -p [server] -clipboard delete [clipboard_name]
+ xpaget [server] -clipboard [clipboard_name])RP(
+Use "add" to create a new clipboard or replace the contents of an existing
+one. Use "append" to append to an existing clipboard.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 129 H()WB 197 Sn( Beta Release 2.1.0b5 \20122 October 2001\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Use FD_SETSIZE instead of getdtablesize\201\202 to determine how many files
+to check during select\201\202;
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Under Cygwin, the launch\201\202 routine now uses the Cygwin spawnvp\201\202
+instead of fork\201\202/exec\201\202 where possible \201i.e., if no stdfiles are
+being redirected\202. This is recommended by Cygwin's \201skimpy\202 on-line
+documentation and seems to fix the problems ds9 had when starting xpans
+automatically.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added error check to select\201\202 call in xpans.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 130 H()WB 198 Sn( Beta Release 2.1.0b4 \20124 September 2001\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( The launch\201\202 now can return an error code if the execv\201\202 system
+call fails \201something system\201\202 does not do\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( INET socket calls between xpa clients and servers now will use
+localhost if they are on the same machine. This protects against
+Linux systems where the hostname is hardwired \201wrongly\202 in a DHCP
+environment.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 131 H()WB 199 Sn( Beta Release 2.1.0b3 \2016 September 2001\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Modified xpans so that, in the case of a firewall, it tries to
+correct the specified ip:port by matching against the ip found in
+the socket packet at accept\201\202 time.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Replaced system\201\202 call used to start xpans automatically with
+a special launch\201\202 call, which performs execvp\201\202 directly without going
+through sh. \201launch\201\202 works under DOS and has fewer security problems.\202
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed bug in xpans in which its xpa port was always being set to 14286.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 132 H()WB 200 Sn( Beta Release 2.1.0b2 \20117 August 2001\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI(Added support for -remote command, which registers the access
+point in the XPA name server of the specified remote server, and gives
+the remote server access rights to the access point. This is used, for
+example, to give data servers xpa access to ds9 so that data can be
+sent to ds9 as a result of a CGI-based Web query.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI(Reserved commands \201except "-help" and "-version"\202 now can only be
+executed on the machine on which the xpa service is running \201not
+through -remote servers\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI(Fixed bug in xpans in which a bad telnet command could hang the program.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI(Added -s [security file] to xpans to allow logging of all external
+connections.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 133 H()WB 201 Sn( Beta Release 2.1.0b1 \2016 August 2001\202)EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( The xpaaccess client program and XPAAccess\201\202 client subroutine
+were modified so that an access-type query can directly contact the
+xpa servers matching the requested xpa template, instead of just
+querying the name server for registered access points. This avoid the
+race condition in which an access point is registered but is not yet
+available, perhaps because the server has not yet entered its event
+loop. Note that the calling sequence of the XPAAccess\201\202 routine was
+changed to return all matching access points and their availability
+status \201instead of just returning the number of registered access
+points\202. Because of this, we are calling this a minor release instead
+of a patch.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added support for XPA_PORT and XPA_PORTFILE environment variables
+to allow specification of the port to be used by the command channel
+\201and data channel, if an optional second port is specified\202 for a given
+access point.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added -m switch to xpaget, xpaset, xpainfo, xpaaccess to allow
+override of the XPA_METHOD environment variable.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Changed the default name of the ACL file from xpa.acl to acls.xpa.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed bug in which it was not possible to send a "set ACL"
+command to an XPA server which did not have a receive callback \201i.e.,
+did not allow xpaset\202. The xpans program is one such server. It now is
+possible to set the ACL on xpans.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( We have discovered that Tcl support for datachan and cmdchan is
+broken under Windows due to an unexplained incompatibility between
+Cygwin sockets and Win32 sockets. We therefore have removed datachan
+and cmdchan from the Windows/Tcl support until further notice.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Extended the behavior of the XPA_DEFACL environment variable so that
+it can support more than one acl, using a list of semi-colon delimited
+controls such as: setenv XPA_DEFACL '*:* $host +; *:foo1 otherhost +'.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed bug in which the class:name specifier "*:*" was erroneously
+trying to access the xpans name server, instead of accessing all
+access points.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( Support TMPDIR and TMP environment variables as well as XPA_TMPDIR.
+)LU(
+
+)0 2 134 H()WB 202 Sn( Patch Release 2.0.5 \20110 November 2000\202)EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( Added support for Tcl on Windows where there is no select\201\202-based
+event loop \201i.e., where there is no Tcl_CreateFileHandler call in Tcl\202
+)0 P()-1 LI( Minor fixes in Makefile for installing on Windows
+)0 P()-1 LI( Minor compiler fixes from gcc -Wall.)LU(
+
+)0 2 135 H()WB 203 Sn( Patch Release 2.0.4 \20120 September 2000\202 )EH(
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI( Removed extraneous include of varargs.h from find.c.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Ported to SGI C compiler, which caught lots of unused variables, etc.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Ported to Cygwin/Windows, which required that we change socket read\201\202
+and write\201\202 calls to recv\201\202 and send\201\202 respectively. Also had to ensure that
+we only did socket I/O on sockets \201no fileio\202.)LU(
+
+)0 2 136 H()WB 204 Sn( Patch Release 2.0.3 \20115 June 2000\202 )EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed the client XPASet\201\202 and XPASetFd\201\202 calls to handle the specified
+max number of connections \201they were ignoring this argument, leading to
+memory overwrites\202.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed Makefile.in so that CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are not hard-wired values.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed word.h to load malloc.h and stdlib.h only if they exist.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Documentation fixes to programs.html \201in xpaaccess\202 and client.html
+\201XPANSLookup\202.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Added explicit typecast to strlen\201\202 argument to MAX #define in
+XPAClientStart \201strlen\201\202 is unsigned in Linux, which can break MAX\202.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Removed bogus Imakefile from directory.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Changed directory name to include patch level \201i.e., xpa-2.0.3\202.)LU(
+
+)0 2 137 H()WB 205 Sn( Patch Release 2.0.2 \2019 September 1999\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed server mode \201-s\202 in the xpaset program by properly cleaning up
+the input buffers \201sending commands and data in server mode was broken\202.)LU(
+
+)0 2 138 H()WB 206 Sn( Patch Release 2.0.1 \2016 August 1999\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( Fixed the Tcl binding code \201tcl.c\202 for 64-bit machines \201Dec Alpha\202
+\201erroneously used %x instead of %p when converting pointers to ASCII\202.
+)0 P()-1 LI( Got rid of a few compiler warnings on 64-bit machines \201a few are
+unavoidable since we must cast int to void * and back when passing around
+client data\202.)LU(
+
+)0 2 139 H()WB 207 Sn( Public Release 2.0 \20127 May 1999\202)EH(
+)UL(
+)0 P()-1 LI( "a new day with no mistakes ... yet")LU(
+
+)2 1 1 HR()0 P()0 0 1 A(Index to the XPA Help Pages)0 0 TN TL()Ec /AF f D(
+
+)2 1 1 HR()0 5 140 H(Last)WB 208 Sn( updated: 22 April 2002)EH(
+)WB NL
+/Cb Db D /Ct [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /Cl [16#00 16#00 16#00] D /CL -1 D Ct Sc
+DS
+/Ba f D /BO 0 D Bs
+/UR (examples.html) D
+/Ti (Where to Find Example/Test Code) D
+/Au () D
+/Df f D
+/ME [()] D
+
+0 BO R
+()1 Sl()WB 43 Sn(
+
+
+)0 2 141 H(XPACode:)WB 210 Sn()WB 209 Sn( Where to Find Example/Test Code)EA()EH(
+
+
+)0 2 142 H(Summary)WB 211 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(The XPA source code directory contains two test programs,
+)EM(stest.c)ES(, and )EM(ctest.c)ES( that can serve as
+examples for writing XPA servers and clients, respectively.
+They also can be used to test various features of XPA.
+
+
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+)0 P(To build the XPA test programs, execute:
+) 1 11 PR( make All)RP(
+in the XPA source directory to generate the )EM(stest)ES( and
+)EM(ctest)ES( programs. \201NB: this should work on all platforms,
+although we have had problems with unresolved externals on one
+Sun/Solaris machine, for reasons still unknown.\202
+)0 P(The stest program can be executed with no arguments to start
+an XPA server that contains the access points: xpa, xpa1,
+c_xpa \201containing sub-commands cmd1 and cmd2\202, and i_xpa.
+You then can use xpaset and xpaget to interact with these access points:
+) 4 57 PR( cat xpa.c | xpaset xpa # send to xpa
+ cat xpa.c | xpaset "xpa*" # send to xpa and xpa1
+ xpaget xpa # receive from xpa
+ xpaget xpa* # receive from xpa and xpa1)RP(
+etc. You also can use ctest to do the same thing, or to iterate:
+) 4 66 PR( ctest -s -l 100 xpa # send to xpa 100 times
+ ctest -s -l 100 "xpa*" # send to xpa and xpa1 100 times
+ ctest -g -l 100 xpa # receive from xpa 100 times
+ ctest -g -l 100 "xpa*" # receive from xpa and xpa1 100 times)RP(
+More options are available: see the stest.c and ctest.c code itself, which
+were used extensively to debug XPA.
+
+)0 P(The file test.tcl in the XPA source directory gives examples for using the
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+)0 2 146 H(Summary)WB 216 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(This document describes changes that will affect users who migrate
+from XPA 1.0 to XPA 2.0.
+
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+)0 P(There have been a few changes that affect users who upgrade XPA
+from version 1.0 to version 2.0. These changes are detailed below.
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI(XPA commands no longer have a resolver routine \201this is open to
+negotiations, but we decided the idea was dumb\202. For the SAOtng
+program, this means that you must explicitly specify the access
+point, i.e.,:
+) 1 35 PR( cat foo.fits | xpaset SAOtng fits)RP(
+
+)0 P(instead of:
+) 1 30 PR( cat foo.fits | xpaset SAOtng)RP(
+)0 P()-1 LI(By default, xpaset, xpaget, etc. now wait for the server callback to
+complete; i.e., the old -W is implied \201and the switch is ignored\202.
+This allows support for better error handling. If you want xpaset, etc.
+to return before the callback is complete, use -n switch:
+) 1 41 PR( echo "file foo.fits" | xpaset -n SAOtng)RP(
+)0 P()-1 LI(The old -w switch in xpaset and xpaget is no longer necessary \201and is
+ignored\202, since you can have more than one process communicating with
+an xpa access point at one time.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI(The new -p switch on xpaset means you need not read from stdout:
+) 2 30 PR(
+ xpaset -p SAOtng colormap I8)RP(
+)0 P(will send the paramlist to the SAOtng callback without reading from stdin.
+)LU(
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+)0 P(This document describes tips for converting from xpa 1.0 \201Xt-based
+xpa\202 to xpa 2.0 \201socket-based xpa\202.
+
+
+)0 2 151 H(Description)WB 222 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(The following are tips for converting from xpa 1.0 \201Xt-based xpa\202 to
+xpa 2.0 \201socket-based xpa\202. The changes are straight-forward and
+almost can be done automatically \201we used editor macros for most of
+the conversion\202.
+)UL()0 P()-1 LI(The existence of the cpp XPA_VERSION directive to distinguish between 1.0
+\201where it is not defined\202 and 2.0 \201where it is defined\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI(Remove the first widget argument from all send and receive server
+callbacks. Also change first 2 arguments from XtPointer to void
+*. For example:
+) 16 74 PR(#ifdef XPA_VERSION
+static void XPAReceiveFile\201client_data, call_data, paramlist, buf, len\202
+ void *client_data;
+ void *call_data;
+ char *paramlist;
+ char *buf;
+ int len;
+#else
+static void XPAReceiveFile\201w, client_data, call_data, paramlist, buf, len\202
+ Widget w;
+ XtPointer client_data;
+ XtPointer call_data;
+ char *paramlist;
+ char *buf;
+ int len;
+#endif)RP(
+)0 P()-1 LI(Server callbacks should be declared as returning int instead
+of void. They now should return 0 for no errors, -1 for error.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI( The mode flags have changed when defining XPA server callbacks.
+The old )EM(S)ES( flag \201save buffer\202 is replaced by )EM(freebuf=false)ES(.
+The old )EM(E)ES( flag \201empty buffer is OK\202 is no longer used \201it
+was an artifact of the X implementation\202.
+
+)0 P()-1 LI(Change NewXPACommand\201\202 to XPAcmdNew\201\202, with the new calling sequence:
+) 1 52 PR( xpa = NewXPACommand\201toplevel, NULL, prefix, NULL\202;)RP(
+is changed to:
+) 1 32 PR( xpa = XPACmdNew\201xclass, name\202;)RP(
+)0 P()-1 LI(Change the AddXPACommand\201\202 subroutine name to XPACmdAdd \201with the same
+calling sequence\202:
+) 3 53 PR( AddXPACommand\201xpa, "file",
+ "\200tdisplay a new file\200n\200t\200t requires: filename",
+ NULL, NULL, NULL, XPAReceiveFile, text, NULL\202;)RP(
+is changed to:
+) 3 53 PR( XPACmdAdd\201xpa, "file",
+ "\200tdisplay a new file\200n\200t\200t requires: filename",
+ NULL, NULL, NULL, XPAReceiveFile, text, NULL\202;)RP(
+)0 P()-1 LI(The XPAXtAppInput\201\202 routine should be called just before XtAppMainLoop\201\202
+to add xpa fds to the Xt event loop:
+) 5 35 PR( /* add the xpas to the Xt loop */
+ XPAXtAddInput\201app, NULL\202;
+
+ /* process events */
+ XtAppMainLoop\201app\202;)RP(
+)0 P()-1 LI(Change NewXPA\201\202 to XPANew\201\202 and call XPAXtAddInput\201\202 if the XtAppMainLoop
+routine already has been entered:
+) 4 71 PR( xpa = NewXPA\201saotng->xim->toplevel, prefix, xparoot,
+ "FITS data or image filename\200n\200t\200t options: file type",
+ XPASendData, new, NULL,
+ XPAReceiveData, new, "SE"\202;)RP(
+is changed to:
+) 6 74 PR( sprintf\201tbuf, "%s.%s", prefix, xparoot\202;
+ xpa = XPANew\201"SAOTNG", tbuf,
+ "FITS data or image filename\200n\200t\200t options: file type",
+ XPASendData, new, NULL,
+ XPAReceiveData, new, "SE"\202;
+ XPAXtAddInput\201XtWidgetToApplicationContext\201saotng->xim->toplevel\202, xpa\202;)RP(
+)0 P()-1 LI(Change XPAInternalReceiveCommand\201\202 to XPACmdInternalReceive\201\202
+remove first argument in the calling sequence\202:
+) 3 61 PR( XPAInternalReceiveCommand\201im->saotng->xim->toplevel,
+ im->saotng, im->saotng->commands,
+ "zoom reset", NULL, 0\202;)RP(
+is changed to:
+) 2 57 PR( XPACmdInternalReceive\201im->saotng, im->saotng->commands,
+ "zoom reset", NULL, 0\202;)RP(
+)0 P()-1 LI(Change DestroyXPA to XPAFree:
+) 1 26 PR( DestroyXPA\201im->dataxpa\202;)RP(
+is changed to:
+) 1 23 PR( XPAFree\201im->dataxpa\202;)RP()LU(
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+)0 2 154 H(Summary)WB 226 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(What does XPA stand for? Who knows anymore!
+
+
+)0 2 155 H(Description)WB 227 Sn()EH(
+)0 P(What does XPA stand for? Dunno! The XPA messaging system originally
+was built on top of the X Window System and XPA was the mnemonic for
+)EM(X Public Access)ES(, to emphasize that we were providing public
+access to previously private data and algorithms in Xt programs. Now
+that XPA no longer is tied to X, it can be argued that we ought to
+change the name \201how about )EM(SPAM: simple public access mechanism)ES(\202, but XPA is in wide-spread use in the astronomical community of
+its birth, and the name has taken on a life of its own. If anyone can
+think of what XPA now means, please let us know.
+
+)0 P(If you think this is bad, consider the MMT Telescope on Mount Hopkins,
+Arizona. When first installed twenty years ago, it featured an array
+of six 72-inch diameter mirrors. from which came its name: the
+)EM(Multiple Mirror Telescope)ES(. In spring of 1999, these mirrors
+were replaced by a single 21 and 1/2 -foot diameter primary mirror,
+the largest single-piece glass reflector on the North American
+continent. And now MMT stands for ... MMT!
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