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diff --git a/doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3 b/doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e0923d8d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3 @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@ +'\"! tbl | nroff \-man +'\" t macro stdmacro + +.de SAMPLE +.br +.RS 0 +.nf +.nh +.. +.de ESAMPLE +.hy +.fi +.RE +.. + +.TH DEBUGINFOD_FIND_DEBUGINFO 3 +.SH NAME +debuginfod_find_debuginfo \- request debuginfo from debuginfod + +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <elfutils/debuginfod.h> +.PP +.BI "debuginfod_find_debuginfo(const unsigned char *" build_id ", int " build_id_len ", char ** " path ");" +.BI "debuginfod_find_executable(const unsigned char *" build_id ", int " build_id_len ", char ** " path ");" +.BI "debuginfod_find_source(const unsigned char *" build_id ", int " build_id_len ", const char *" filename ", char ** " path ");" + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.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 are queried in parallel. As soon as a +debuginfod server begins transfering the target file all of the connections +to the other servers are closed. + +.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 $HOME/.debuginfod_client_cache. + +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +If the query is successful, these functions save the target file +to the client cache and return a file descriptor to that file. +Otherwise an error code is returned. + +.SH "ERRORS" +The following list is not comprehensive. Error codes may also +originate from calls to various C Library functions. + +.TP +.BR EACCESS +Denied access to resource located at the URL. + +.TP +.BR ECONNREFUSED +Unable to connect to remote host. + +.TP +.BR ECONNRESET +Unable to either send or recieve network data. + +.TP +.BR EHOSTUNREACH +Unable to resolve remote host. + +.TP +.BR EINVAL +One or more arguments are incorrectly formatted. \fIbuild_id\fP may +be too long (greater than 256 characters), \fIfilename\fP may not +be an absolute path or a debuginfod URL is malformed. + +.TP +.BR EIO +Unable to write data received from server to local file. + +.TP +.BR EMLINK +Too many HTTP redirects. + +.TP +.BR ENETUNREACH +Unable to initialize network connection. + +.TP +.BR ENOENT +Could not find the resource located at URL. Often this error code +indicates that a debuginfod server was successfully contacted but +the server could not find the target file. + +.TP +.BR ENOMEM +System is unable to allocate resources. + +.TP +.BR ENOSYS +\fB$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)" |