Lwt_bytes (lwt.Lwt

type t =
  (char, Stdlib.Bigarray.int8_unsigned_elt, Stdlib.Bigarray.c_layout)
    Stdlib.Bigarray.Array1.t

Type of array of bytes.

val create : int -> t

Creates a new byte array of the given size.

val length : t -> int

Returns the length of the given byte array.

Access

val get : t -> int -> char

get buffer offset returns the byte at offset offset in buffer.

val set : t -> int -> char -> unit

get buffer offset value changes the value of the byte at offset offset in buffer to value.

val unsafe_get : t -> int -> char

Same as get but without bounds checking.

val unsafe_set : t -> int -> char -> unit

Same as set but without bounds checking.

Conversions

val of_bytes : bytes -> t

of_bytes buf returns a newly allocated byte array with the same contents as buf.

val of_string : string -> t

of_string buf returns a newly allocated byte array with the same contents as buf.

val to_bytes : t -> bytes

to_bytes buf returns newly allocated bytes with the same contents as buf.

val to_string : t -> string

to_string buf returns a newly allocated string with the same contents as buf.

Copying

val blit : t -> int -> t -> int -> int -> unit

blit buf1 ofs1 buf2 ofs2 len copies len bytes from buf1 starting at offset ofs1 to buf2 starting at offset ofs2.

val blit_from_string : string -> int -> t -> int -> int -> unit

Same as blit but the first buffer is a String.t instead of a byte array.

val blit_from_bytes : bytes -> int -> t -> int -> int -> unit

Same as blit but the first buffer is a Bytes.t instead of a byte array.

val blit_to_bytes : t -> int -> bytes -> int -> int -> unit

Same as blit but the second buffer is a Bytes.t instead of a byte array.

val unsafe_blit : t -> int -> t -> int -> int -> unit

Same as blit but without bound checking.

val unsafe_blit_from_bytes : bytes -> int -> t -> int -> int -> unit

Same as Lwt_bytes.blit_from_bytes but without bounds checking.

val unsafe_blit_from_string : string -> int -> t -> int -> int -> unit

Same as Lwt_bytes.blit_from_string but without bounds checking.

val unsafe_blit_to_bytes : t -> int -> bytes -> int -> int -> unit

Same as Lwt_bytes.blit_to_bytes but without bounds checking.

val proxy : t -> int -> int -> t

proxy buffer offset length creates a ``proxy''. The returned byte array share the data of buffer but with different bounds.

val extract : t -> int -> int -> t

extract buffer offset length creates a new byte array of length length and copy the length bytes of buffer at offset into it.

val copy : t -> t

copy buffer creates a copy of the given byte array.

Filling

val fill : t -> int -> int -> char -> unit

fill buffer offset length value puts value in all length bytes of buffer starting at offset offset.

val unsafe_fill : t -> int -> int -> char -> unit

Same as fill but without bounds checking.

IOs

The following functions behave similarly to the ones in Lwt_unix, except they use byte arrays instead of Bytes.t, and they never perform extra copies of the data.

val read : Lwt_unix.file_descr -> t -> int -> int -> int Lwt.t

val write : Lwt_unix.file_descr -> t -> int -> int -> int Lwt.t

val recv : 
  Lwt_unix.file_descr ->
  t ->
  int ->
  int ->
  Unix.msg_flag list ->
  int Lwt.t

Not implemented on Windows.

val send : 
  Lwt_unix.file_descr ->
  t ->
  int ->
  int ->
  Unix.msg_flag list ->
  int Lwt.t

Not implemented on Windows.

val recvfrom : 
  Lwt_unix.file_descr ->
  t ->
  int ->
  int ->
  Unix.msg_flag list ->
  (int * Unix.sockaddr) Lwt.t

Not implemented on Windows.

val sendto : 
  Lwt_unix.file_descr ->
  t ->
  int ->
  int ->
  Unix.msg_flag list ->
  Unix.sockaddr ->
  int Lwt.t

Not implemented on Windows.

type io_vector = {

iov_buffer : t;
iov_offset : int;
iov_length : int;

}

val io_vector : buffer:t -> offset:int -> length:int -> io_vector

val recv_msg : 
  socket:Lwt_unix.file_descr ->
  io_vectors:io_vector list ->
  (int * Unix.file_descr list) Lwt.t

Not implemented on Windows.

deprecated
Use Lwt_unix.Versioned.recv_msg_2.

val send_msg : 
  socket:Lwt_unix.file_descr ->
  io_vectors:io_vector list ->
  fds:Unix.file_descr list ->
  int Lwt.t

Not implemented on Windows.

deprecated
Use Lwt_unix.Versioned.send_msg_2.

Memory mapped files

val map_file : 
  fd:Unix.file_descr ->
  ?pos:int64 ->
  shared:bool ->
  ?size:int ->
  unit ->
  t

map_file ~fd ?pos ~shared ?size () maps the file descriptor fd to an array of bytes.

val mapped : t -> bool

mapped buffer returns true iff buffer is a memory mapped file.

type advice =

| MADV_NORMAL
| MADV_RANDOM
| MADV_SEQUENTIAL
| MADV_WILLNEED
| MADV_DONTNEED
| MADV_MERGEABLE
| MADV_UNMERGEABLE
| MADV_HUGEPAGE
| MADV_NOHUGEPAGE

Type of advise that can be sent to the kernel by the program. See the manual madvise(2) for a description of each.

val madvise : t -> int -> int -> advice -> unit

madvise buffer pos len advice advises the kernel how the program will use the memory mapped file between pos and pos + len.

This call is not available on windows.

val page_size : int

Size of pages.

val mincore : t -> int -> bool array -> unit

mincore buffer offset states tests whether the given pages are in the system memory (the RAM). The offset argument must be a multiple of page_size. states is used to store the result; each cases is true if the corresponding page is in RAM and false otherwise.

This call is not available on windows and cygwin.

val wait_mincore : t -> int -> unit Lwt.t

wait_mincore buffer offset waits until the page containing the byte at offset offset is in RAM.

This functions is not available on windows and cygwin.