Miscellaneous utilities

This section contains miscellaneous functions that don’t really belong in any other section.

Data types

uv_buf_t

Buffer data type.

char* uv_buf_t.base

Pointer to the base of the buffer. Readonly.

size_t uv_buf_t.len

Total bytes in the buffer. Readonly.

Note

On Windows this field is ULONG.

void* (*uv_malloc_func)(size_t size)

Replacement function for malloc(3). See uv_replace_allocator().

void* (*uv_realloc_func)(void* ptr, size_t size)

Replacement function for realloc(3). See uv_replace_allocator().

void* (*uv_calloc_func)(size_t count, size_t size)

Replacement function for calloc(3). See uv_replace_allocator().

void (*uv_free_func)(void* ptr)

Replacement function for free(3). See uv_replace_allocator().

uv_file

Cross platform representation of a file handle.

uv_os_sock_t

Cross platform representation of a socket handle.

uv_os_fd_t

Abstract representation of a file descriptor. On Unix systems this is a typedef of int and on Windows a HANDLE.

uv_rusage_t

Data type for resource usage results.

typedef struct {
    uv_timeval_t ru_utime; /* user CPU time used */
    uv_timeval_t ru_stime; /* system CPU time used */
    uint64_t ru_maxrss; /* maximum resident set size */
    uint64_t ru_ixrss; /* integral shared memory size */
    uint64_t ru_idrss; /* integral unshared data size */
    uint64_t ru_isrss; /* integral unshared stack size */
    uint64_t ru_minflt; /* page reclaims (soft page faults) */
    uint64_t ru_majflt; /* page faults (hard page faults) */
    uint64_t ru_nswap; /* swaps */
    uint64_t ru_inblock; /* block input operations */
    uint64_t ru_oublock; /* block output operations */
    uint64_t ru_msgsnd; /* IPC messages sent */
    uint64_t ru_msgrcv; /* IPC messages received */
    uint64_t ru_nsignals; /* signals received */
    uint64_t ru_nvcsw; /* voluntary context switches */
    uint64_t ru_nivcsw; /* involuntary context switches */
} uv_rusage_t;

uv_cpu_info_t

Data type for CPU information.

typedef struct uv_cpu_info_s {
    char* model;
    int speed;
    struct uv_cpu_times_s {
        uint64_t user;
        uint64_t nice;
        uint64_t sys;
        uint64_t idle;
        uint64_t irq;
    } cpu_times;
} uv_cpu_info_t;

uv_interface_address_t

Data type for interface addresses.

typedef struct uv_interface_address_s {
    char* name;
    char phys_addr[6];
    int is_internal;
    union {
        struct sockaddr_in address4;
        struct sockaddr_in6 address6;
    } address;
    union {
        struct sockaddr_in netmask4;
        struct sockaddr_in6 netmask6;
    } netmask;
} uv_interface_address_t;

API

uv_handle_type uv_guess_handle(uv_file file)

Used to detect what type of stream should be used with a given file descriptor. Usually this will be used during initialization to guess the type of the stdio streams.

For isatty(3) equivalent functionality use this function and test for UV_TTY.

int uv_replace_allocator(uv_malloc_func malloc_func, uv_realloc_func realloc_func, uv_calloc_func calloc_func, uv_free_func free_func)

New in version 1.6.0.

Override the use of the standard library’s malloc(3), calloc(3), realloc(3), free(3), memory allocation functions.

This function must be called before any other libuv function is called or after all resources have been freed and thus libuv doesn’t reference any allocated memory chunk.

On success, it returns 0, if any of the function pointers is NULL it returns UV_EINVAL.

Warning

There is no protection against changing the allocator multiple times. If the user changes it they are responsible for making sure the allocator is changed while no memory was allocated with the previous allocator, or that they are compatible.

uv_buf_t uv_buf_init(char* base, unsigned int len)

Constructor for uv_buf_t.

Due to platform differences the user cannot rely on the ordering of the base and len members of the uv_buf_t struct. The user is responsible for freeing base after the uv_buf_t is done. Return struct passed by value.

char** uv_setup_args(int argc, char** argv)

Store the program arguments. Required for getting / setting the process title.

int uv_get_process_title(char* buffer, size_t size)

Gets the title of the current process.

int uv_set_process_title(const char* title)

Sets the current process title.

int uv_resident_set_memory(size_t* rss)

Gets the resident set size (RSS) for the current process.

int uv_uptime(double* uptime)

Gets the current system uptime.

int uv_getrusage(uv_rusage_t* rusage)

Gets the resource usage measures for the current process.

Note

On Windows not all fields are set, the unsupported fields are filled with zeroes.

int uv_cpu_info(uv_cpu_info_t** cpu_infos, int* count)

Gets information about the CPUs on the system. The cpu_infos array will have count elements and needs to be freed with uv_free_cpu_info().

void uv_free_cpu_info(uv_cpu_info_t* cpu_infos, int count)

Frees the cpu_infos array previously allocated with uv_cpu_info().

int uv_interface_addresses(uv_interface_address_t** addresses, int* count)

Gets address information about the network interfaces on the system. An array of count elements is allocated and returned in addresses. It must be freed by the user, calling uv_free_interface_addresses().

void uv_free_interface_addresses(uv_interface_address_t* addresses, int count)

Free an array of uv_interface_address_t which was returned by uv_interface_addresses().

void uv_loadavg(double avg[3])

Gets the load average. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)

Note

Returns [0,0,0] on Windows (i.e., it’s not implemented).

int uv_ip4_addr(const char* ip, int port, struct sockaddr_in* addr)

Convert a string containing an IPv4 addresses to a binary structure.

int uv_ip6_addr(const char* ip, int port, struct sockaddr_in6* addr)

Convert a string containing an IPv6 addresses to a binary structure.

int uv_ip4_name(const struct sockaddr_in* src, char* dst, size_t size)

Convert a binary structure containing an IPv4 address to a string.

int uv_ip6_name(const struct sockaddr_in6* src, char* dst, size_t size)

Convert a binary structure containing an IPv6 address to a string.

int uv_inet_ntop(int af, const void* src, char* dst, size_t size)

int uv_inet_pton(int af, const char* src, void* dst)

Cross-platform IPv6-capable implementation of inet_ntop(3) and inet_pton(3). On success they return 0. In case of error the target dst pointer is unmodified.

int uv_exepath(char* buffer, size_t* size)

Gets the executable path.

int uv_cwd(char* buffer, size_t* size)

Gets the current working directory.

Changed in version 1.1.0: On Unix the path no longer ends in a slash.

int uv_chdir(const char* dir)

Changes the current working directory.

int uv_os_homedir(char* buffer, size_t* size)

Gets the current user’s home directory. On Windows, uv_os_homedir() first checks the USERPROFILE environment variable using GetEnvironmentVariableW(). If USERPROFILE is not set, GetUserProfileDirectoryW() is called. On all other operating systems, uv_os_homedir() first checks the HOME environment variable using getenv(3). If HOME is not set, getpwuid_r(3) is called. The user’s home directory is stored in buffer. When uv_os_homedir() is called, size indicates the maximum size of buffer. On success or UV_ENOBUFS failure, size is set to the string length of buffer.

Warning

uv_os_homedir() is not thread safe.

New in version 1.6.0.

uint64_t uv_get_total_memory(void)

Gets memory information (in bytes).

uint64_t uv_hrtime(void)

Returns the current high-resolution real time. This is expressed in nanoseconds. It is relative to an arbitrary time in the past. It is not related to the time of day and therefore not subject to clock drift. The primary use is for measuring performance between intervals.

Note

Not every platform can support nanosecond resolution; however, this value will always be in nanoseconds.