tor/src/feature/api/tor_api.h
Nick Mathewson df444e482b Provide examples of tor_api_get_provider_version() output
At the same time, sternly warn any person thinking about relying on
any particular format too strictly.  If you do this, and your
program breaks, it is your bug, not mine.
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/* Copyright (c) 2001 Matej Pfajfar.
* Copyright (c) 2001-2004, Roger Dingledine.
* Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson.
* Copyright (c) 2007-2018, The Tor Project, Inc. */
/* See LICENSE for licensing information */
/**
* \file tor_api.h
* \brief Public C API for the Tor network service.
*
* This interface is intended for use by programs that need to link Tor as
* a library, and launch it in a separate thread. If you have the ability
* to run Tor as a separate executable, you should probably do that instead
* of embedding it as a library.
*
* To use this API, first construct a tor_main_configuration_t object using
* tor_main_configuration_new(). Then, you use one or more other function
* calls (such as tor_main_configuration_set_command_line() to configure how
* Tor should be run. Finally, you pass the configuration object to
* tor_run_main().
*
* At this point, tor_run_main() will block its thread to run a Tor daemon;
* when the Tor daemon exits, it will return. See notes on bugs and
* limitations below.
*
* There is no other public C API to Tor: calling any C Tor function not
* documented in this file is not guaranteed to be stable.
**/
#ifndef TOR_API_H
#define TOR_API_H
typedef struct tor_main_configuration_t tor_main_configuration_t;
/**
* Create and return a new tor_main_configuration().
*/
tor_main_configuration_t *tor_main_configuration_new(void);
/**
* Set the command-line arguments in <b>cfg</b>.
*
* The <b>argc</b> and <b>argv</b> values here are as for main(). The
* contents of the argv pointer must remain unchanged until tor_run_main() has
* finished and you call tor_main_configuration_free().
*
* Return 0 on success, -1 on failure.
*/
int tor_main_configuration_set_command_line(tor_main_configuration_t *cfg,
int argc, char *argv[]);
/**
* Release all storage held in <b>cfg</b>.
*
* Once you have passed a tor_main_configuration_t to tor_run_main(), you
* must not free it until tor_run_main() has finished.
*/
void tor_main_configuration_free(tor_main_configuration_t *cfg);
/**
* Return the name and version of the software implementing the tor_api
* functionality. Current implementors are "tor" and "libtorrunner".
*
* Note that if you're using libtorrunner, you'll see the version of
* libtorrunner, not the version of Tor that it's invoking for you.
*
* Added in Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha.
*
* Example return values include "tor 0.3.5.1-alpha" when linked directly
* against tor, and "libtorrunner 0.3.5.1-alpha" when linked against
* libtorrunner while it is invoking an arbitrary version of Tor. HOWEVER,
* the user MUST NOT depend on any particular format or contents of this
* string: there may be other things that implement Tor in the future.
**/
const char *tor_api_get_provider_version(void);
/**
* Run the tor process, as if from the command line.
*
* The command line arguments from tor_main_configuration_set_command_line()
* are taken as if they had been passed to main().
*
* This function will not return until Tor is done running. It returns zero
* on success, and nonzero on failure.
*
* If you want to control when Tor exits, make sure to configure a control
* socket. The OwningControllerFD option may be helpful there.
*
* BUG 23847: Sometimes, if you call tor_main a second time (after it has
* returned), Tor may crash or behave strangely. We have fixed all issues of
* this type that we could find, but more may remain.
*
* LIMITATION: You cannot run more than one instance of Tor in the same
* process at the same time. Concurrent calls will cause undefined behavior.
* We do not currently have plans to change this.
*
* LIMITATION: While we will try to fix any problems found here, you
* should be aware that Tor was originally written to run as its own
* process, and that the functionality of this file was added later. If
* you find any bugs or strange behavior, please report them, and we'll
* try to straighten them out.
*/
int tor_run_main(const tor_main_configuration_t *);
/**
* Run the tor process, as if from the command line.
*
* @deprecated Using this function from outside Tor is deprecated; you should
* use tor_run_main() instead.
*
* BUGS: This function has all the same bugs as tor_run_main().
*
* LIMITATIONS: This function has all the limitations of tor_run_main().
*/
int tor_main(int argc, char **argv);
#endif /* !defined(TOR_API_H) */