Add a common error infratructure for widget_tell
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1 /*
2 * socket.c - awesome client, communicate with socket, common functions
4 * Copyright © 2007-2008 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
5 * Copyright © 2007 daniel@brinkers.de
7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10 * (at your option) any later version.
12 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 * GNU General Public License for more details.
17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
18 * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
19 * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
23 #include <stdio.h>
24 #include <sys/socket.h>
25 #include <sys/un.h>
27 #include "common/socket.h"
28 #include "common/util.h"
30 #define CONTROL_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH ".awesome_ctl."
32 /** Get a sockaddr_un struct with information feeded for opening a
33 * communication to the awesome socket for given display
34 * \param display the display number
35 * \return sockaddr_un struct ready to be used or NULL if a problem occured
37 struct sockaddr_un *
38 get_client_addr(const char *display)
40 char *homedir, *tmp;
41 const char *real_display = NULL;
42 ssize_t path_len;
43 struct sockaddr_un *addr;
45 addr = p_new(struct sockaddr_un, 1);
46 homedir = getenv("HOME");
47 if(a_strlen(display))
49 if((tmp = strchr(display, ':')))
50 real_display = tmp + 1;
51 else
52 real_display = display;
53 if((tmp = strrchr(display, '.')))
54 *tmp = '\0';
57 /* a_strlen(display) because we strcat on display and
58 * + 2 for / and \0 */
59 path_len = a_strlen(homedir) + a_strlen(CONTROL_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH)
60 + (a_strlen(display) ? (a_strlen(real_display)) : 1) + 2;
62 if(path_len >= ssizeof(addr->sun_path))
64 fprintf(stderr, "error: path of control UNIX domain socket is too long");
65 return NULL;
67 a_strcpy(addr->sun_path, path_len, homedir);
68 a_strcat(addr->sun_path, path_len, "/");
69 a_strcat(addr->sun_path, path_len, CONTROL_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH);
70 if(a_strlen(display))
71 a_strcat(addr->sun_path, path_len, real_display);
72 else
73 a_strcat(addr->sun_path, path_len, "0");
75 addr->sun_family = AF_UNIX;
77 return addr;
80 /** Get a AF_UNIX socket for communicating with awesome
81 * \return the socket file descriptor
83 int
84 get_client_socket(void)
86 int csfd;
88 csfd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
90 if(csfd < 0)
91 perror("error opening UNIX domain socket");
93 return csfd;
95 // vim: filetype=c:expandtab:shiftwidth=4:tabstop=8:softtabstop=4:encoding=utf-8:textwidth=80