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[xemacs-hg @ 2002-05-05 11:30:15 by ben] syntax cache, 8-bit-format, lots of code cleanup README.packages: Update info about --package-path. i.c: Create an inheritable event and pass it on to XEmacs, so that ^C can be handled properly. Intercept ^C and signal the event. "Stop Build" in VC++ now works. bytecomp-runtime.el: Doc string changes. compat.el: Some attempts to redo this to make it truly useful and fix the "multiple versions interacting with each other" problem. Not yet done. Currently doesn't work. files.el: Use with-obsolete-variable to avoid warnings in new revert-buffer code. xemacs.mak: Split up CFLAGS into a version without flags specifying the C library. The problem seems to be that minitar depends on zlib, which depends specifically on libc.lib, not on any of the other C libraries. Unless you compile with libc.lib, you get errors -- specifically, no _errno in the other libraries, which must make it something other than an int. (#### But this doesn't seem to obtain in XEmacs, which also uses zlib, and can be linked with any of the C libraries. Maybe zlib is used differently and doesn't need errno, or maybe XEmacs provides an int errno; ... I don't understand. Makefile.in.in: Fix so that packages are around when testing. abbrev.c, alloc.c, buffer.c, buffer.h, bytecode.c, callint.c, casefiddle.c, casetab.c, casetab.h, charset.h, chartab.c, chartab.h, cmds.c, console-msw.h, console-stream.c, console-x.c, console.c, console.h, data.c, device-msw.c, device.c, device.h, dialog-msw.c, dialog-x.c, dired-msw.c, dired.c, doc.c, doprnt.c, dumper.c, editfns.c, elhash.c, emacs.c, eval.c, event-Xt.c, event-gtk.c, event-msw.c, event-stream.c, events.c, events.h, extents.c, extents.h, faces.c, file-coding.c, file-coding.h, fileio.c, fns.c, font-lock.c, frame-gtk.c, frame-msw.c, frame-x.c, frame.c, frame.h, glade.c, glyphs-gtk.c, glyphs-msw.c, glyphs-msw.h, glyphs-x.c, glyphs.c, glyphs.h, gui-msw.c, gui-x.c, gui.h, gutter.h, hash.h, indent.c, insdel.c, intl-win32.c, intl.c, keymap.c, lisp-disunion.h, lisp-union.h, lisp.h, lread.c, lrecord.h, lstream.c, lstream.h, marker.c, menubar-gtk.c, menubar-msw.c, menubar-x.c, menubar.c, minibuf.c, mule-ccl.c, mule-charset.c, mule-coding.c, mule-wnnfns.c, nas.c, objects-msw.c, objects-x.c, opaque.c, postgresql.c, print.c, process-nt.c, process-unix.c, process.c, process.h, profile.c, rangetab.c, redisplay-gtk.c, redisplay-msw.c, redisplay-output.c, redisplay-x.c, redisplay.c, redisplay.h, regex.c, regex.h, scrollbar-msw.c, search.c, select-x.c, specifier.c, specifier.h, symbols.c, symsinit.h, syntax.c, syntax.h, syswindows.h, tests.c, text.c, text.h, tooltalk.c, ui-byhand.c, ui-gtk.c, unicode.c, win32.c, window.c: Another big Ben patch. -- FUNCTIONALITY CHANGES: add partial support for 8-bit-fixed, 16-bit-fixed, and 32-bit-fixed formats. not quite done yet. (in particular, needs functions to actually convert the buffer.) NOTE: lots of changes to regex.c here. also, many new *_fmt() inline funs that take an Internal_Format argument. redo syntax cache code. make the cache per-buffer; keep the cache valid across calls to functions that use it. also keep it valid across insertions/deletions and extent changes, as much as is possible. eliminate the junky regex-reentrancy code by passing in the relevant lisp info to the regex routines as local vars. add general mechanism in extents code for signalling extent changes. fix numerous problems with the case-table implementation; yoshiki never properly transferred many algorithms from old-style to new-style case tables. redo char tables to support a default argument, so that mapping only occurs over changed args. change many chartab functions to accept Lisp_Object instead of Lisp_Char_Table *. comment out the code in font-lock.c by default, because font-lock.el no longer uses it. we should consider eliminating it entirely. Don't output bell as ^G in console-stream when not a TTY. add -mswindows-termination-handle to interface with i.c, so we can properly kill a build. add more error-checking to buffer/string macros. add some additional buffer_or_string_() funs. -- INTERFACE CHANGES AFFECTING MORE CODE: switch the arguments of write_c_string and friends to be consistent with write_fmt_string, which must have printcharfun first. change BI_* macros to BYTE_* for increased clarity; similarly for bi_* local vars. change VOID_TO_LISP to be a one-argument function. eliminate no-longer-needed CVOID_TO_LISP. -- char/string macro changes: rename MAKE_CHAR() to make_emchar() for slightly less confusion with make_char(). (The former generates an Emchar, the latter a Lisp object. Conceivably we should rename make_char() -> wrap_char() and similarly for make_int(), make_float().) Similar changes for other *CHAR* macros -- we now consistently use names with `emchar' whenever we are working with Emchars. Any remaining name with just `char' always refers to a Lisp object. rename macros with XSTRING_* to string_* except for those that reference actual fields in the Lisp_String object, following conventions used elsewhere. rename set_string_{data,length} macros (the only ones to work with a Lisp_String_* instead of a Lisp_Object) to set_lispstringp_* to make the difference clear. try to be consistent about caps vs. lowercase in macro/inline-fun names for chars and such, which wasn't the case before. we now reserve caps either for XFOO_ macros that reference object fields (e.g. XSTRING_DATA) or for things that have non-function semantics, e.g. directly modifying an arg (BREAKUP_EMCHAR) or evaluating an arg (any arg) more than once. otherwise, use lowercase. here is a summary of most of the macros/inline funs changed by all of the above changes: BYTE_*_P -> byte_*_p XSTRING_BYTE -> string_byte set_string_data/length -> set_lispstringp_data/length XSTRING_CHAR_LENGTH -> string_char_length XSTRING_CHAR -> string_emchar INTBYTE_FIRST_BYTE_P -> intbyte_first_byte_p INTBYTE_LEADING_BYTE_P -> intbyte_leading_byte_p charptr_copy_char -> charptr_copy_emchar LEADING_BYTE_* -> leading_byte_* CHAR_* -> EMCHAR_* *_CHAR_* -> *_EMCHAR_* *_CHAR -> *_EMCHAR CHARSET_BY_ -> charset_by_* BYTE_SHIFT_JIS* -> byte_shift_jis* BYTE_BIG5* -> byte_big5* REP_BYTES_BY_FIRST_BYTE -> rep_bytes_by_first_byte char_to_unicode -> emchar_to_unicode valid_char_p -> valid_emchar_p Change intbyte_strcmp -> qxestrcmp_c (duplicated functionality). -- INTERFACE CHANGES AFFECTING LESS CODE: use DECLARE_INLINE_HEADER in various places. remove '#ifdef emacs' from XEmacs-only files. eliminate CHAR_TABLE_VALUE(), which duplicated the functionality of get_char_table(). add BUFFER_TEXT_LOOP to simplify iterations over buffer text. define typedefs for signed and unsigned types of fixed sizes (INT_32_BIT, UINT_32_BIT, etc.). create ALIGN_FOR_TYPE as a higher-level interface onto ALIGN_SIZE; fix code to use it. add charptr_emchar_len to return the text length of the character pointed to by a ptr; use it in place of charcount_to_bytecount(..., 1). add emchar_len to return the text length of a given character. add types Bytexpos and Charxpos to generalize Bytebpos/Bytecount and Charbpos/Charcount, in code (particularly, the extents code and redisplay code) that works with either kind of index. rename redisplay struct params with names such as `charbpos' to e.g. `charpos' when they are e.g. a Charxpos, not a Charbpos. eliminate xxDEFUN in place of DEFUN; no longer necessary with changes awhile back to doc.c. split up big ugly combined list of EXFUNs in lisp.h on a file-by-file basis, since other prototypes are similarly split. rewrite some "*_UNSAFE" macros as inline funs and eliminate the _UNSAFE suffix. move most string code from lisp.h to text.h; the string code and text.h code is now intertwined in such a fashion that they need to be in the same place and partially interleaved. (you can't create forward references for inline funs) automated/lisp-tests.el, automated/symbol-tests.el, automated/test-harness.el: Fix test harness to output FAIL messages to stderr when in batch mode. Fix up some problems in lisp-tests/symbol-tests that were causing spurious failures.
author ben
date Sun, 05 May 2002 11:33:57 +0000
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.TH GNUSERV 1 "" "XEmacs Server"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
gnuserv, gnuclient \- Server and Clients for XEmacs
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gnuclient
[-nw] [-display display] [-q] [-v] [-l library] [-batch] [-f function] [-eval form] 
[-h hostname] [-p port] [-r remote-pathname] [[+line] file] ...
.br
.B gnudoit [-q] 
form
.br
.B gnuserv
.br
.B gnuattach   
Removed as of gnuserv 3.x
.SH DESCRIPTION

.PP
\fIgnuclient\fP allows the user to request a running XEmacs process to
edit the named files or directories and/or evaluate lisp forms.
Depending on your environment, it can be an X frame or a TTY frame.
One typical use for this is with a dialup connection to a machine on
which an XEmacs process is currently running.
.PP
\fIgnudoit\fP is a shell script frontend to ``gnuclient -batch -eval form''.
Its use is deprecated. Try to get used to calling gnuclient directly.
.PP
\fIgnuserv\fP is the server program that is set running by XEmacs to
handle all incoming and outgoing requests. It is not usually invoked
directly, but is started from XEmacs by loading the \fIgnuserv\fP
package and evaluating the Lisp form (gnuserv-start).
.PP
\fIgnuattach\fP no longer exists. Its functionality has been replaced by
\fIgnuclient -nw\fP.
.SH OPTIONS
.PP 
\fIgnuclient\fP supports as much of the command line options of Emacs as
makes sense in this context. In addition it adds a few of its own. 
.br
Options with long names can also be specified using a double
hyphen instead of a single one.
.TP 8
.BI \-nw
This option makes \fIgnuclient\fP act as a frontend such that XEmacs
can attach to the current TTY. XEmacs will then open a new TTY frame.
The effect is similar to having started a new XEmacs on this TTY with
the ``-nw'' option. It currently only works if XEmacs is running on
the same machine as gnuclient. This is the default if the `DISPLAY'
environment variable is not set.
.TP 8
.BI \-display " display, " \--display " display" 
If this option is given or the `DISPLAY' environment variable is set
then gnuclient will tell XEmacs to edit files in a frame on the
specified X device.
.TP 8
.BI \-q
This option informs \fIgnuclient\fP to exit once connection has been
made with the XEmacs process.  Normally \fIgnuclient\fP waits until
all of the files on the command line have been finished with (their
buffers killed) by the XEmacs process, and all the forms have been
evaluated.
.TP 8
.BI \-v
When this option is specified \fIgnuclient\fP will request for the
specified files to be viewed instead of edited.
.TP 8
.BI \-l " library"
Tell Emacs to load the specified library.
.TP 8
.BI \-batch
Tell Emacs not to open any frames. Just load libraries and evaluate
lisp code.  If no files to execute, functions to call or forms to eval 
are given using the
.BR \-l ,
.BR \-f ,
or
.B \-eval
options, then forms to eval are read from STDIN.
.TP 8
.BI \-f " function," 
Make Emacs execute the lisp function.
.TP 8
.BI \-eval " form"
Make Emacs execute the lisp form.
.TP 8
.BI \-h " hostname"
Used only with Internet-domain sockets, this option specifies the host
machine which should be running \fIgnuserv\fP. If this option is not
specified then the value of the environment variable GNU_HOST is used
if set. If no hostname is specified, and the GNU_HOST variable is not
set, an internet connection will not be attempted. N\.B.:
\fIgnuserv\fP does NOT allow internet connections unless XAUTH
authentication is used or the GNU_SECURE variable has been specified
and points at a file listing all trusted hosts. (See SECURITY below.)

.br
Note that an internet address may be specified instead of a hostname
which can speed up connections to the server by quite a bit,
especially if the client machine is running YP.

.br
Note also that a hostname of \fBunix\fP can be used to specify that
the connection to the server should use a Unix-domain socket (if
supported) rather than an Internet-domain socket.
.TP 8
.BI \-p " port"
Used only with Internet-domain sockets, this option specifies the
service port used to communicate between server and clients.  If this
option is not specified, then the value of the environment variable
GNU_PORT is used, if set, otherwise a service called ``gnuserv'' is
looked up in the services database.  Finally, if no other value can be
found for the port, then a default port is used which is usually 21490
+ uid.
.br
Note that since \fIgnuserv\fP doesn't allow command-line options, the port for
it will have to be specified via one of the alternative methods.
.TP 8
.BI \-r " pathname"
Used only with Internet-domain sockets, the pathname argument may be
needed to inform XEmacs how to reach the root directory of a remote
machine.  \fIgnuclient\fP prepends this string to each path argument
given.  For example, if you were trying to edit a file on a client
machine called otter, whose root directory was accessible from the
server machine via the path /net/otter, then this argument should be
set to '/net/otter'.  If this option is omitted, then the value is
taken from the environment variable GNU_NODE, if set, or the empty
string otherwise.
.TP 8
.BI "[+n] file"
This is the path of the file to be edited.  If the file is a directory, then
the directory browsers dired or monkey are usually invoked instead.
The cursor is put at line number 'n' if specified.

.SH SETUP
\fIgnuserv\fP is packaged standardly with recent versions of XEmacs.
Therefore, you should be able to start the server simply by evaluating
the XEmacs Lisp form (gnuserv-start), or equivalently by typing
`M-x gnuserv-start'.

.SH CONFIGURATION
The behavior of this suite of program is mostly controlled on the lisp 
side in Emacs and its behavior can be customized to a large extent.
Type `M-x customize-group RET gnuserv RET' for easy access. More
documentation can be found in the file `gnuserv.el'

.SH EXAMPLE
.RS 4
gnuclient -q -f mh-smail
.br
gnuclient -h cuckoo -r /ange@otter: /tmp/*
.br
gnuclient -nw ../src/listproc.c
.RE
.br

.br
More examples and sample wrapper scripts are provided in the
etc/gnuserv directory of the Emacs installation.


.SH SYSV IPC
SysV IPC is used to communicate between \fIgnuclient\fP and
\fIgnuserv\fP if the symbol SYSV_IPC is defined at the top of
gnuserv.h. This is incompatible with both Unix-domain and
Internet-domain socket communication as described below. A file called
/tmp/gsrv??? is created as a key for the message queue, and if removed
will cause the communication between server and client to fail until
the server is restarted.
.SH UNIX-DOMAIN SOCKETS
A Unix-domain socket is used to communicate between \fIgnuclient\fP
and \fIgnuserv\fP if the symbol UNIX_DOMAIN_SOCKETS is defined at the
top of gnuserv.h.  A file called /tmp/gsrvdir????/gsrv is created for
communication.  If the symbol USE_TMPDIR is set at the top of gnuserv.h,
$TMPDIR, when set, is used instead of /tmp.  If that file is deleted,
or TMPDIR has different values for the server and the client, communication
between server and client will fail.  Only the user running gnuserv will be
able to connect to the socket.
.SH INTERNET-DOMAIN SOCKETS
Internet-domain sockets are used to communicate between
\fIgnuclient\fP and \fIgnuserv\fP if the symbol
INTERNET_DOMAIN_SOCKETS is defined at the top of gnuserv.h. Both
Internet-domain and Unix-domain sockets can be used at the same
time. If a hostname is specified via -h or via the GNU_HOST
environment variable, \fIgnuclient\fP establish connections using an
internet domain socket. If not, a local connection is attempted via
either a unix-domain socket or SYSV IPC.
.SH SECURITY
Using Internet-domain sockets, a more robust form of security is
needed that wasn't necessary with either Unix-domain sockets or SysV
IPC. Currently, two authentication protocols are supported to provide
this: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 (based on the X11 xauth(1) program) and a
simple host-based access control mechanism, hereafter called
GNUSERV-1. The GNUSERV-1 protocol is always available, whereas support
for MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 may or may not have been enabled (via a #define
at the top of gnuserv.h) at compile-time.
.PP
\fIgnuserv\fP, using GNUSERV-1, performs a limited form of access
control at the machine level. By default no internet-domain socket is
opened.  If the variable GNU_SECURE can be found in \fIgnuserv\fP's
environment, and it names a readable filename, then this file is
opened and assumed to be a list of hosts, one per line, from which the
server will allow requests. Connections from any other host will be
rejected. Even the machine on which \fIgnuserv\fP is running is not
permitted to make connections via the internet socket unless its
hostname is explicitly specified in this file.  Note that a host may
be either a numeric IP address or a hostname, and that
.I any
user on an approved host may connect to your gnuserv and execute arbitrary
elisp (e.g., delete all your files).
If this file contains a lot of
hostnames then the server may take quite a time to start up.
.PP
When the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 protocol is enabled, an internet socket
\fIis\fP opened by default. \fIgnuserv\fP will accept a connection from
any host, and will wait for a "magic cookie" (essentially, a password)
to be presented by the client. If the client doesn't present the
cookie, or if the cookie is wrong, the authentication of the client is
considered to have failed. At this point. \fIgnuserv\fP falls back to
the GNUSERV-1 protocol; If the client is calling from a host listed in
the GNU_SECURE file, the connection will be accepted, otherwise it
will be rejected. 
.TP 4
.I  Using MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
When the \fIgnuserv\fP server is started, it looks for a cookie
defined for display 999 on the machine where it is running. If the
cookie is found, it will be stored for use as the authentication
cookie. These cookies are defined in an authorization file (usually
~/.Xauthority) that is manipulated by the X11 xauth(1) program. For
example, a machine "kali" which runs an emacs that invokes
\fIgnuserv\fP should respond as follows (at the shell prompt) when set
up correctly.
.PP
.RS 8
kali% xauth list
.br
GS65.SP.CS.CMU.EDU:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  11223344
.br
KALI.FTM.CS.CMU.EDU:999  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  1234
.RE
.PP
.RS 4
In the above case, the authorization file defines two cookies. The
second one, defined for screen 999 on the server machine, is used for
gnuserv authentication. 
.PP
On the client machine's side, the authorization file must contain an
identical line, specifying the 
.I server's 
cookie. In other words, on a machine "foobar" which wishes to connect
to "kali,"  the `xauth list' output should contain the line:
.PP
.RS 4
KALI.FTM.CS.CMU.EDU:999  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  1234
.RE
.PP
For more information on authorization files, take a look at the
xauth(1X11) man page, or invoke xauth interactively (without any
arguments) and type "help" at the prompt. Remember that case in the
name of the authorization protocol (i.e.`MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1') 
.I is
significant!
.RE


.SH ENVIRONMENT
.PP
.TP 8
.B DISPLAY
Default X device to put edit frame.

.SH FILES
.PP
.TP 8
.B /tmp/gsrv???
(SYSV_IPC only)
.TP 8
.B /tmp/gsrvdir???/gsrv
(unix domain sockets only)
.TP 8
.B ~/.emacs
XEmacs customization file, see xemacs(1).
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
.TP 8
xauth(1X11), Xsecurity(1X11), gnuserv.el
.SH BUGS
.PP 
NULs occurring in result strings don't get passed back to gnudoit properly.

.SH AUTHOR.
Andy Norman (ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com), based heavily upon
etc/emacsclient.c, etc/server.c and lisp/server.el from the GNU Emacs
18.52 distribution.  Various modifications from Bob Weiner (weiner@mot.com),
Darrell Kindred (dkindred@cmu.edu), Arup Mukherjee (arup@cmu.edu), Ben
Wing (ben@xemacs.org) and Hrvoje Niksic (hniksic@xemacs.org).