/*
  Copyright 2009 Nathan Phillip Brink, Ethan Zonca

  This file is a part of DistRen.

  DistRen is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  DistRen is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
  along with DistRen.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/

#ifndef _DISTREN_REMOTEIO_H
#define _DISTREN_REMOTEIO_H

#include <stdlib.h>

/*
  RemoteIO provides an abstraction to the method of talking to a remote distrend. It is a layer on top of execio that should provide an equivalent interface.
 */

struct remoteio_opts;

struct remoteio {
  struct execio *execio;
};

/**
   Opens connection with remote distrend. Returns 1 on error.

   @todo should this be asynchronous?
 */
int remoteio_open(struct remoteio **rem, struct remoteio_opts *opts, const char *servername);

/**
   non-blocking I/O.
   @return 0 on success, 1 on failure
 */
int remoteio_read(struct remoteio *rem, void *buf, size_t len, size_t *bytesread);
int remoteio_write(struct remoteio *rem, void *buf, size_t len, size_t *byteswritten);

/**
   Closes a remoteio session.
   @return nonzero on error
*/
int remoteio_close(struct remoteio *rem);

#endif