connection: Let sdb_connection_close not deallocate the connection.

[sysdb.git] / src / include / frontend / connection.h

diff --git a/src/include/frontend/connection.h b/src/include/frontend/connection.h
index b329fa1ec9d8b3c003207b0c197085aeed6c29d6..906f906acbea436c5518dd84e798145a84b4d5ac 100644 (file)
--- a/src/include/frontend/connection.h
+++ b/src/include/frontend/connection.h
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * sdb_conn_t represents an open connection from a client. It inherits from
+ * sdb_object_t and may safely be cast to a generic object.
+ */
 typedef struct sdb_conn sdb_conn_t;
 
 /*
@@ -81,22 +85,23 @@ sdb_connection_accept(int fd);
 
 /*
  * sdb_connection_close:
- * Close a open connection and deallocate any memory. The connection object is
- * no longer valid after calling this function.
+ * Close an open connection. Any subsequent reads from the connection will
+ * fail. Use sdb_object_deref to free the memory used by the object.
  */
 void
 sdb_connection_close(sdb_conn_t *conn);
 
 /*
- * sdb_connection_read:
- * Read from an open connection until reading would block.
+ * sdb_connection_handle:
+ * Read from an open connection until reading would block and handle all
+ * incoming commands.
  *
  * Returns:
  *  - the number of bytes read (0 on EOF)
  *  - a negative value on error
  */
 ssize_t
-sdb_connection_read(sdb_conn_t *conn);
+sdb_connection_handle(sdb_conn_t *conn);
 
 /*
  * sdb_connection_send:
@@ -168,9 +173,9 @@ sdb_fe_session_start(sdb_conn_t *conn);
 
 /*
  * sdb_fe_query, sdb_fe_fetch, sdb_fe_list, sdb_fe_lookup:
- * Handle the CONNECTION_QUERY, CONNECTION_FETCH, CONNECTION_LIST, and
- * CONNECTION_LOOKUP commands respectively. It is expected that the current
- * command has been initialized already.
+ * Handle the SDB_CONNECTION_QUERY, SDB_CONNECTION_FETCH, SDB_CONNECTION_LIST,
+ * and SDB_CONNECTION_LOOKUP commands respectively. It is expected that the
+ * current command has been initialized already.
  *
  * Returns:
  *  - 0 on success