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- .HS Handles tcl
- .ad b
- .BS
- '@index: Tcl_HandleAlloc Tcl_HandleFree Tcl_HandleTblInit Tcl_HandleTblRelease Tcl_HandleTblUseCount Tcl_HandleWalk Tcl_HandleXlate
- .SH NAME
- Tcl_HandleAlloc, Tcl_HandleFree, Tcl_HandleTblInit,
- Tcl_HandleTblRelease, Tcl_HandleTblUseCount Tcl_HandleWalk,
- Tcl_HandleXlate \- Dynamic, handle addressable tables.
-
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- \fB#include <tclExtend.h>\fR
- .sp
- void_pt
- \fBTcl_HandleTblInit\fR (\fIhandleBase, entrySize, initEntries\fR)
- .sp
- int
- \fBTcl_HandleTblUseCount\fR (\fIheaderPtr, amount\fR)
- .sp
- void
- \fBTcl_HandleTblRelease\fR (\fIheaderPtr\fR)
- .sp
- void_pt
- \fBTcl_HandleAlloc\fR (\fIheaderPtr, handlePtr\fR)
- .sp
- void
- \fBTcl_HandleFree\fR (\fIheaderPtr, entryPtr\fR)
- .sp
- void_pt
- \fBTcl_HandleWalk\fR (\fIheaderPtr, walkKeyPtr\fR)
- .sp
- void
- \fBTcl_WalkKeyToHandle\fR (\fIheaderPtr, walkKey, handlePtr\fR)
- .sp
- void_pt
- \fBTcl_HandleXlate\fR (\fIinterp, headerPtr, handle\fR)
- .SH ARGUMENTS
- .AS Tcl_Interp *walkKeyPtr
- .AP char *handleBase in
- Base name for the handle, numeric entry number will be appended.
- .AP int entrySize in
- Size of the table entries, in bytes.
- .AP int initEntries in
- Initial number of entries to allocate.
- .AP int amount in
- Amount to alter the use count by.
- .AP void_pt headerPtr in
- Pointer to the header.
- .AP char *handlePtr out
- The handle name is returned here. It must be large enough to hold the handle
- base name with a number appended.
- .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
- Interpreter to use for error reporting.
- .AP char *handle in
- Name of handle to operate on.
- .AP void_pt entryPtr in
- Pointer to a handle table entry.
- .AP int *walkKeyPtr i/o
- Key used to walk the table, initialize to -1 before the first call.
- .AP int walkKey in
- Key returned from walking the table.
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- The Tcl handle facility provides a way to manage table entries that may be
- referenced by a textual handle from Tcl code. This is provided for
- applications that need to create data structures in one command, return a
- reference (i.e. pointer) to that particular data structure and then access
- that data structure in other commands. An example application is file handles.
- .PP
- A handle consists of a base name, which is some unique, meaningful name, such
- as `\fBfile\fR' and a numeric value appended to the base name (e.g. `file3').
- The handle facility is designed to provide a standard mechanism for building
- Tcl commands that allocate and access table entries based on an entry index.
- The tables are expanded when needed, consequently pointers to entries should
- not be kept, as they will become invalid when the table is expanded. If the
- table entries are large or pointers must be kept to the entries, then the
- the entries should be allocated separately and pointers kept in the handle
- table. A use count is kept on the table. This use count is intended to
- determine when a table shared by multiple commands is to be release.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_HandleTblInit\fR creates and initialize a Tcl dynamic handle table.
- The specified initial number of entries will be allocated and added to the free
- list. The use count will be set to one.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_HandleTblUseCount\fR alters the use count on a table and returns the
- new value. The use count has \fIamount\fR added to it, where \fIamount\fR may
- be positive, zero or negative. A zero value retrieves the current use count.
- This is normally used to increment the use count when multiple commands are
- sharing the table.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_HandleTblRelease\fR decrements the use count on a table. If it becomes
- zero (or negative), the the table will be released. Note that no clean up is
- done on the table entry client supplied data. If clean up must be done,
- then \fBTcl_HandleTblUseCount\fR can be used to decrement the use count.
- When it goes to zero, the table may be walked and then released.
- \fIHeaderPtr\fR is declared as \fBClientData\fR so that the procedure may
- be passed as a command deletion procedure.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_HandleAlloc\fR allocates an entry and associates a handle with it.
- The handle is returned to the buffer pointed to by \fIhandlePtr\fR can then
- be used to access the entry. The buffer must be large enough to accommodate
- the base handle name with 2 to 4 digits appended along with a terminating null
- byte.
- A pointer is returned to the allocated entry. If \fBTcl_HandleFree\fR
- has not been called since initialization, handles will be handed out
- sequentially from zero. This behavior is useful in setting
- up initial entries, such as ``\fBstdin\fR'' for a file table.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_HandleXlate\fR translates a handle to a pointer to the corresponding
- table entry. If the handle is not allocated (open) or is invalid, NULL is
- returned and an error message is set in \fIinterp->result\fR.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_HandleWalk\fR walks through and finds every allocated entry in a table.
- Entries may be deallocated during a walk, but should not be allocated.
- \fBTcl_HandleWalk\fR
- will return a pointer to the entry, or NULL if no more entries are available.
- The integer pointed to by \fBwalkKeyPtr\fR should be set to `-1' before the
- first call, and then the pointer passed to each subsequent call left
- unmodified.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_WalkKeyToHandle\fR converts a walk key, as returned from a call to
- \fBTcl_HandleWalk\fR into a handle.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_HandleFree\fR frees a handle table entry.
- .SH KEYWORDS
- handle, table, allocate
-