LINX for Linux Version 2.4.2

Main documents to read

README Read about LINX for Linux
RELEASE_NOTES Release Notes for this release, including the version
User's Guide Guide how to use LINX for Linux (PDF version)
User's Guide for LINX Gateway Guide how to use LINX Gateway (PDF version)
LINX Protocols Description of the OS-independent LINX Protocols (PDF version)
ChangeLog History of changes
Example linx_basic README Example application, simple client/server communication
Example linx_bmark README Example application with test statistics
Reference Doc (PDF) See below for HTML versions of the man-pages

The User's Guide and these lists contain hyperlinks to the PDF and HTML versions of the reference documentation, included in the distribution. Note that the MAN pages are the documentation source. For the User's Guide and the LINX Protocol specification, the HTML version are originals. After any updates, the scripts/make_linx_doc shall be run to recreate the HTML reference documentation and the PDF versions of the User's Guide, the LINX protocols and the MAN pages. This script requires the tools rman and htmldoc.


Project Web Location

See the LINX Project http://sourceforge.net/projects/linx for downloading latest software version or more information.

Reference Documentation

The reference manual pages are in MAN-page format inside the doc/manNN/ directories. Those are the original files, accessed by the Linux "man" command, after setting MANPATH to include the LINX doc directory. Example, reading the top linx(7) reference page:

MANPATH=/YourPathToLinxDirectory/doc:$MANPATH   man linx

Also HTML and PDF versions of the reference manual pages are included in the LINX distribution. They must be generated from the MAN pages with the scripts scripts/make_linx_doc. Please ignore some autogenerated hyperlinks to external Linux MAN pages; only links between the LINX MAn pages work.

An application usually uses the LINX API function calls, but the underlying LINX Socket API is also available.

Reference Doc (PDF) All LINX MAN pages in one PDF file. Others below are HTML.
linx(7) Document which describes LINX and the LINX Socket API. The MAN pages below describe the LINX API.
   
linxcfg(1) Command to create LINX links to other nodes
linxstat(1) Command to see LINX statistics , both local and remote connections
linxdisc(8) Daemon to discover LINX nodes and auto-create links to other nodes
linxdisc.conf(5) Configuration file for linxdisc
mkethcon(1) Command to create LINX ethernet connections
mklink(1) Command to create LINX links
mktcpcon(1) Command to create LINX TCP connections
rmethcon(1) Command to destroy LINX ethernet connections
rmlink(1) Command to destroy LINX links
rmtcpcon(1) Command to destroy LINX TCP connections
linxgwcmd(1) Command to find and test Gateway servers
linxgws(8) Command to start the Gateway server
linxgws.conf(5) Configuration file for Gateway server
   
linx.h(3) Main LINX API header file (see also linx_types.h below)
   
linx_alloc(3) Allocate a signal buffer - LINX API
linx_attach(3) Attach to supervise another endpoint - LINX API
linx_cancel_new_link(3) Cancel the new link signal request - LINX API (same man-page as request_newlink)
linx_cancel_tmo(3) Cancel the specified timeout - LINX API (same man-page as request_tmo)
linx_close(3) Remove a LINX endpoint - LINX API
linx_detach(3) Remove an attachment - LINX API (same man-page as attach)
linx_free_buf(3) Free a signal buffer - LINX API
linx_free_name(3) Free the name returned by linx_get_name - LINX API
linx_free_stat(3) Free the statistics struct returned by linx_get_stat - LINX API
linx_get_descriptor(3) Get underlying socket descriptor - LINX API
linx_get_name(3) Get the name of a LINX endpoint, from the id - LINX API
linx_get_spid(3) Get the identifier of the own LINX endpoint - LINX API
linx_get_stat(3) Get the statistics about LINX - LINX API
linx_hunt(3) Locate a LINX endpoint with a given name - LINX API
linx_hunt_from(3) Locate a LINX endpoint, but set another to own the hunt - LINX API (same man-page as hunt)
linx_request_new_link(3) Request a new link notification - LINX API
linx_modify_tmo(3) Modify the specified timeout - LINX API (same man-page as request_tmo)
linx_open(3) Create own LINX endpoint; all other calls go through this endpoint - LINX API
linx_receive(3) Receive a signal buffer; block if not yet arrived - LINX API
linx_receive_from(3) Receive a signal buffer from specified endpoint - LINX API (same man-page as receive)
linx_receive_w_tmo(3) Receive a signal buffer with timeout - LINX API (same man-page as receive)
linx_request_tmo(3) Request timeout with specified signal - LINX API
linx_send(3) Send a signal buffer to a LINX endpoint - LINX API
linx_sender(3) Get the sender of a signal buffer - LINX API
linx_send_w_opt(3) Send a signal buffer, with alternative methods - LINX API (same man-page as send)
linx_send_w_s(3) Send a signal buffer, but set somebody else as sender - LINX API (same man-page as send)
linx_set_sigsize(3) Resize a signal buffer - LINX API (same man-page as sigsize)
linx_sigattr(3) Get an attribute of a signal buffer - LINX API
linx_sigsize(3) Get the size of a signal buffer - LINX API
linx_types.h(3) LINX data types