TestVDirSurrogate(8)

Name

TestVDirSurrogate - test program for repository

Synopsis

TestVDirSurrogate

Contents

• Description
• Flags
• Configuration
• Limitations
• See Also
• Author

Description

See the Terminology section of the vesta-intro man page for definitions of terms.

TestVDirSurrogate is a test program for the Vesta repository. It provides a way to exercise most of the functions of the VDirSurrogate, VestaSource, and AccessControl interfaces that are available to client programs outside the repository address space. The program uses library code that makes SRPC calls to the repository server, using the VestaSourceSRPC interface.

TestVDirSurrogate maintains an array of VestaSource objects. Initially the appendable root (conventionally /vesta) is source #0, and the mutable root (conventionally /vesta-work) is source #1. Each command that creates a new VestaSource object returns its number, and these numbers can be used in further commands.

After starting the program, type "?" for a list of available commands. Most commands relate directly to a similarly-named method of the VestaSource, VDirSurrogate, or AccessControl interface.

Flags

None.

Configuration

The following values are obtained from the [Repository] section of the Vesta configuration file (vesta.cfg).

VestaSourceSRPC_port

UDP port on which the SRPC interface that supports VDirSurrogate and friends is exported. The SRPC interface itself is described in VestaSourceSRPC.H; hence the name.

VestaSourceSRPC_host

Host from which VestaSourceSRPC is exported. This must be the host on which the repository process is running.

Limitations

TestVDirSurrogate has very rudimentary input error checking. If you type a letter where it wants to see a number, you could easily put it into an infinite loop.

See Also

vesta-intro(1), repository(8), TestShortId(8).

Author

Tim Mann

Last modified on Tue Apr 29 23:14:13 PDT 2003 by mann
     modified on Mon Nov 12 18:37:13 EST 2001 by ken@xorian.net