LINX for Linux (see version in RELEASE_NOTES)

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)
LINX Protocol Description of the OS-independent LINX Protocol (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 Documentation PDF versions of the LINX man-pages, see below.

The User's Guide and the list below, contains hyperlinks to the HTML versions of the reference documentation, included in the distribution. They are however not included in the source and must be generated from the MAN pages.


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_html and scripts/make_pdf, requiring tools which are not included. The HTML pages currently have nicer layout and include hyperlinks between the LINX manual pages. Please ignore other autogenerated hyperlinks; only links between the LINX pages work.

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

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
   
linx.h(3) Main LINX API header file
linx_types.h(3) LINX data types
   
linx_alloc(3) Allocate a signal buffer - LINX API
linx_attach(3) Attach to supervise another endpoint - LINX API
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_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_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_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_receive_w_buf(3) Receive a signal buffer; preallocated buffer - LINX API (same man-page as receive)
linx_send(3) Send a signal buffer to a LINX endpoint - LINX API
linx_send_w_s(3) Send a signal buffer, but set somebody else as sender - LINX API (same man-page as send)
linx_sender(3) Get the sender of a signal buffer - LINX API
linx_set_sigsize(3) Resize a signal buffer - LINX API (same man-page as sigsize)
linx_sigsize(3) Get the size of a signal buffer - LINX API