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 * Author: Adam Dunkels <adam@sics.se>
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/**
 * \file
 *         CFS header file.
 * \author
 *         Adam Dunkels <adam@sics.se>
 *
 */
 
/**
 * \addtogroup sys
 * @{
 */
 
/**
 * \defgroup cfs The Contiki file system interface
 *
 * The Contiki file system interface (CFS) defines an abstract API for
 * reading directories and for reading and writing files. The CFS API
 * is intentionally simple. The CFS API is modeled after the POSIX
 * file API, and slightly simplified.
 *
 * @{
 */
 
#ifndef CFS_H_
#define CFS_H_
 
#include "contiki.h"
 
#ifndef CFS_CONF_OFFSET_TYPE
typedef int cfs_offset_t;
#else
typedef CFS_CONF_OFFSET_TYPE cfs_offset_t;
#endif
 
/**< CFS directory entry name length */
#define CFS_DIR_ENTRY_NAME_LENGTH   32
 
struct cfs_dir {
  /* Iteration state, which is implementation-defined and should not be
     accessed externally. */
  char state[32];
};
 
struct cfs_dirent {
  char name[CFS_DIR_ENTRY_NAME_LENGTH];
  cfs_offset_t size;
};
 
/**
 * Specify that cfs_open() should open a file for reading.
 *
 * This constant indicates to cfs_open() that a file should be opened
 * for reading. CFS_WRITE should be used if the file is opened for
 * writing, and CFS_READ + CFS_WRITE indicates that the file is opened
 * for both reading and writing.
 *
 * \sa cfs_open()
 */
#ifndef CFS_READ
#define CFS_READ  1
#endif
 
/**
 * Specify that cfs_open() should open a file for writing.
 *
 * This constant indicates to cfs_open() that a file should be opened
 * for writing. CFS_READ should be used if the file is opened for
 * reading, and CFS_READ + CFS_WRITE indicates that the file is opened
 * for both reading and writing.
 *
 * \sa cfs_open()
 */
#ifndef CFS_WRITE
#define CFS_WRITE 2
#endif
 
/**
 * Specify that cfs_open() should append written data to the file rather than overwriting it.
 *
 * This constant indicates to cfs_open() that a file that should be
 * opened for writing gets written data appended to the end of the
 * file. The default behaviour (without CFS_APPEND) is that the file
 * is overwritten with the new data.
 *
 * \sa cfs_open()
 */
#ifndef CFS_APPEND
#define CFS_APPEND 4
#endif
 
/**
 * Specify that cfs_seek() should compute the offset from the beginning of the file.
 *
 * \sa cfs_seek()
 */
#ifndef CFS_SEEK_SET
#define CFS_SEEK_SET 0
#endif
 
/**
 * Specify that cfs_seek() should compute the offset from the current position of the file pointer.
 *
 * \sa cfs_seek()
 */
#ifndef CFS_SEEK_CUR
#define CFS_SEEK_CUR 1
#endif
 
/**
 * Specify that cfs_seek() should compute the offset from the end of the file.
 *
 * \sa cfs_seek()
 */
#ifndef CFS_SEEK_END
#define CFS_SEEK_END 2
#endif
 
/**
 * \brief      Open a file.
 * \param name The name of the file.
 * \param flags CFS_READ, or CFS_WRITE/CFS_APPEND, or both.
 * \return     A file descriptor, if the file could be opened, or -1 if
 *             the file could not be opened.
 *
 *             This function opens a file and returns a file
 *             descriptor for the opened file. If the file could not
 *             be opened, the function returns -1. The function can
 *             open a file for reading or writing, or both.
 *
 *             An opened file must be closed with cfs_close().
 *
 * \sa         CFS_READ
 * \sa         CFS_WRITE
 * \sa         cfs_close()
 */
#ifndef cfs_open
int cfs_open(const char *name, int flags);
#endif
 
/**
 * \brief      Close an open file.
 * \param fd   The file descriptor of the open file.
 *
 *             This function closes a file that has previously been
 *             opened with cfs_open().
 */
#ifndef cfs_close
void cfs_close(int fd);
#endif
 
/**
 * \brief      Read data from an open file.
 * \param fd   The file descriptor of the open file.
 * \param buf  The buffer in which data should be read from the file.
 * \param len  The number of bytes that should be read.
 * \return     The number of bytes that was actually read from the file.
 *
 *             This function reads data from an open file into a
 *             buffer. The file must have first been opened with
 *             cfs_open() and the CFS_READ flag.
 */
#ifndef cfs_read
int cfs_read(int fd, void *buf, unsigned int len);
#endif
 
/**
 * \brief      Write data to an open file.
 * \param fd   The file descriptor of the open file.
 * \param buf  The buffer from which data should be written to the file.
 * \param len  The number of bytes that should be written.
 * \return     The number of bytes that was actually written to the file.
 *
 *             This function reads writes data from a memory buffer to
 *             an open file. The file must have been opened with
 *             cfs_open() and the CFS_WRITE flag.
 */
#ifndef cfs_write
int cfs_write(int fd, const void *buf, unsigned int len);
#endif
 
/**
 * \brief      Seek to a specified position in an open file.
 * \param fd   The file descriptor of the open file.
 * \param offset A position, either relative or absolute, in the file.
 * \param whence Determines how to interpret the offset parameter.
 * \return     The new position in the file, or (cfs_offset_t)-1 if the seek failed.
 *
 *             This function moves the file position to the specified
 *             position in the file. The next byte that is read from
 *             or written to the file will be at the position given 
 *             determined by the combination of the offset parameter 
 *             and the whence parameter.
 *
 * \sa         CFS_SEEK_CUR
 * \sa         CFS_SEEK_END
 * \sa         CFS_SEEK_SET
 */
#ifndef cfs_seek
cfs_offset_t cfs_seek(int fd, cfs_offset_t offset, int whence);
#endif
 
/**
 * \brief      Remove a file.
 * \param name The name of the file.
 * \retval 0   If the file was removed.
 * \return -1  If the file could not be removed or if it doesn't exist.
 */
#ifndef cfs_remove
int cfs_remove(const char *name);
#endif
 
/**
 * \brief      Open a directory for reading directory entries.
 * \param dirp A pointer to a struct cfs_dir that is filled in by the function.
 * \param name The name of the directory.
 * \return     0 or -1 if the directory could not be opened.
 *
 * \sa         cfs_readdir()
 * \sa         cfs_closedir()
 */
#ifndef cfs_opendir
int cfs_opendir(struct cfs_dir *dirp, const char *name);
#endif
 
/**
 * \brief      Read a directory entry
 * \param dirp A pointer to a struct cfs_dir that has been opened with cfs_opendir().
 * \param dirent A pointer to a struct cfs_dirent that is filled in by cfs_readdir()
 * \retval 0   If a directory entry was read.
 * \retval -1  If no more directory entries can be read.
 *
 * \sa         cfs_opendir()
 * \sa         cfs_closedir()
 */
#ifndef cfs_readdir
int cfs_readdir(struct cfs_dir *dirp, struct cfs_dirent *dirent);
#endif
 
/**
 * \brief      Close a directory opened with cfs_opendir().
 * \param dirp A pointer to a struct cfs_dir that has been opened with cfs_opendir().
 *
 * \sa         cfs_opendir()
 * \sa         cfs_readdir()
 */
#ifndef cfs_closedir
void cfs_closedir(struct cfs_dir *dirp);
#endif
 
#endif /* CFS_H_ */
 
/** @} */
/** @} */