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.TH DEBUGINFOD_FIND_* 3

.SH NAME

debuginfod_find_debuginfo \- request debuginfo from debuginfod

.SH SYNOPSIS

.nf

.B #include <elfutils/debuginfod.h>

.PP

.BI "debuginfod_client *debuginfod_begin(void);"

.BI "void debuginfod_end(debuginfod_client *" client ");"

.BI "int debuginfod_find_debuginfo(debuginfod_client *" client ","

.BI "                              const unsigned char *" build_id ","

.BI "                              int " build_id_len ","

.BI "                              char ** " path ");"

.BI "int debuginfod_find_executable(debuginfod_client *" client ","

.BI "                               const unsigned char *" build_id ","

.BI "                               int " build_id_len ","

.BI "                               char ** " path ");"

.BI "int debuginfod_find_source(debuginfod_client *" client ","

.BI "                           const unsigned char *" build_id ","

.BI "                           int " build_id_len ","

.BI "                           const char *" filename ","

.BI "                           char ** " path ");"

.BI "typedef int (*debuginfo_progressfn_t)(debuginfod_client *" client ","

.BI "                                      long a, long b);"

.BI "void debuginfod_set_progressfn(debuginfod_client *" client ","

.BI "                               debuginfo_progressfn_t " progressfn ");"

Link with \fB-ldebuginfod\fP.

.SH DESCRIPTION

.BR debuginfod_begin ()

creates a \fBdebuginfod_client\fP connection handle that should be used

with all other calls.

.BR debuginfod_end ()

should be called on the \fBclient\fP handle to release all state and

storage when done.

.BR debuginfod_find_debuginfo (),

.BR debuginfod_find_executable (),

and

.BR debuginfod_find_source ()

query the debuginfod server URLs contained in

.BR $DEBUGINFOD_URLS

(see below) for the debuginfo, executable or source file with the

given \fIbuild_id\fP. \fIbuild_id\fP should be a pointer to either

a null-terminated, lowercase hex string or a binary blob. If

\fIbuild_id\fP is given as a hex string, \fIbuild_id_len\fP should

be 0. Otherwise \fIbuild_id_len\fP should be the number of bytes in

the binary blob.

.BR debuginfod_find_source ()

also requries a \fIfilename\fP in order to specify a particular

source file. \fIfilename\fP should be an absolute path that includes

the compilation directory of the CU associated with the source file.

Relative path names commonly appear in the DWARF file's source directory,

but these paths are relative to individual compilation unit AT_comp_dir

paths, and yet an executable is made up of multiple CUs. Therefore, to

disambiguate, debuginfod expects source queries to prefix relative path

names with the CU compilation-directory, followed by a mandatory "/".

Note: the caller should not elide \fB../\fP or \fB/./\fP or extraneous

\fB///\fP sorts of path components in the directory names, because if

this is how those names appear in the DWARF files, that is what

debuginfod needs to see too.

If \fIpath\fP is not NULL and the query is successful, \fIpath\fP is set

to the path of the file in the cache. The caller must \fBfree\fP() this value.

The URLs in \fB$DEBUGINFOD_URLS\fP may be queried in parallel. As soon

as a debuginfod server begins transferring the target file all of the

connections to the other servers are closed.

A \fBclient\fP handle should be used from only one thread at a time.

.SH "RETURN VALUE"

\fBdebuginfod_begin\fP returns the \fBdebuginfod_client\fP handle to

use with all other calls.  On error \fBNULL\fP will be returned and

\fBerrno\fP will be set.

If a find family function is successful, the resulting file is saved

to the client cache and a file descriptor to that file is returned.

The caller needs to \fBclose\fP() this descriptor.  Otherwise, a

negative error code is returned.

.SH "PROGRESS CALLBACK"

As the \fBdebuginfod_find_*\fP() functions may block for seconds or

longer, a progress callback function is called periodically, if

configured with

.BR debuginfod_set_progressfn ().

This function sets a new progress callback function (or NULL) for the

client handle.

The given callback function is called from the context of each thread

that is invoking any of the other lookup functions.  It is given two

numeric parameters that, if thought of as a numerator \fIa\fP and

denominator \fIb\fP, together represent a completion fraction

\fIa/b\fP.  The denominator may be zero initially, until a quantity

such as an exact download size becomes known.

The progress callback function is also the supported way to

\fIinterrupt\fP the download operation.  (The library does \fInot\fP

modify or trigger signals.)  The progress callback must return 0 to

continue the work, or any other value to stop work as soon as

possible.  Consequently, the \fBdebuginfod_find_*\fP() function will

likely return with an error, but might still succeed.

.SH "CACHE"

If the query is successful, the \fBdebuginfod_find_*\fP() functions save

the target file to a local cache. The location of the cache is controlled

by the \fB$DEBUGINFOD_CACHE_PATH\fP environment variable (see below).

Cleaning of the cache is controlled by the \fIcache_clean_interval_s\fP

and \fImax_unused_age_s\fP files, which are found in the

\fB$DEBUGINFOD_CACHE_PATH\fP directory. \fIcache_clean_interval_s\fP controls

how frequently the cache is traversed for cleaning and \fImax_unused_age_s\fP

controls how long a file can go unused (fstat(2) atime) before it's

removed from the cache during cleaning. These files should contain only an

ASCII decimal integer representing the interval or max unused age in seconds.

The default is one day and one week, respectively.  Values of zero mean "immediately".

.SH "SECURITY"

.BR debuginfod_find_debuginfo (),

.BR debuginfod_find_executable (),

and

.BR debuginfod_find_source ()

\fBdo not\fP include any particular security

features.  They trust that the binaries returned by the debuginfod(s)

are accurate.  Therefore, the list of servers should include only

trustworthy ones.  If accessed across HTTP rather than HTTPS, the

network should be trustworthy.  Passing user authentication information

through the internal \fIlibcurl\fP library is not currently enabled, except

for the basic plaintext \%\fIhttp[s]://userid:password@hostname/\fP style.

(The debuginfod server does not perform authentication, but a front-end

proxy server could.)

.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"

.TP 21

.B DEBUGINFOD_URLS

This environment variable contains a list of URL prefixes for trusted

debuginfod instances.  Alternate URL prefixes are separated by space.

.TP 21

.B DEBUGINFOD_TIMEOUT

This environment variable governs the timeout for each debuginfod HTTP

connection.  A server that fails to respond within this many seconds

is skipped.  The default is 5.

.TP 21

.B DEBUGINFOD_CACHE_PATH

This environment variable governs the location of the cache where

downloaded files are kept.  It is cleaned periodically as this

program is reexecuted.  The default is $HOME/.debuginfod_client_cache.

.SH "ERRORS"

The following list is not comprehensive. Error codes may also

originate from calls to various C Library functions.

.TP

.BR EACCESS

Denied access to resource located at the URL.

.TP

.BR ECONNREFUSED

Unable to connect to remote host.

.TP

.BR ECONNRESET

Unable to either send or recieve network data.

.TP

.BR EHOSTUNREACH

Unable to resolve remote host.

.TP

.BR EINVAL

One or more arguments are incorrectly formatted. \fIbuild_id\fP may

be too long (greater than 256 characters), \fIfilename\fP may not

be an absolute path or a debuginfod URL is malformed.

.TP

.BR EIO

Unable to write data received from server to local file.

.TP

.BR EMLINK

Too many HTTP redirects.

.TP

.BR ENETUNREACH

Unable to initialize network connection.

.TP

.BR ENOENT

Could not find the resource located at URL. Often this error code

indicates that a debuginfod server was successfully contacted but

the server could not find the target file.

.TP

.BR ENOMEM

System is unable to allocate resources.

.TP

.BR ENOSYS

\fB$DEBUGINFOD_URLS\fP is not defined.

.TP

.BR ETIME

Query failed due to timeout. \fB$DEBUGINFOD_TIMEOUT\fP controls

the timeout duration. See debuginfod(8) for more information.

.SH "FILES"

.LP

.PD .1v

.TP 20

.B $HOME/.debuginfod_client_cache

Default cache directory.

.PD

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.I "debuginfod(8)"