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vrb_give

NAME

vrb_give - create a new virtual ring buffer

LIBRARY

-lvrb

SYNOPSIS

#include <vrb.h>

vrb_p vrb_give(vrb_p vrb, size_t size);

DESCRIPTION

vrb_give specifies how much data has been placed into the empty portion of the virtual ring buffer by the caller.

The caller will have called vrb_empty_len(3) and vrb_empty_ptr(3) to get the length of empty space in the buffer and a pointer to it, and having placed some data into that space, starting from the pointer obtained and placing no more that the length obtained.

ARGUMENTS

vrb_p vrb
specifies which virtual ring buffer.

size_t size
specifies the length of data that has been placed into the virtual ring buffer empty space by the caller.

RETURN VALUE

int
On success, 0 is returned. On error, -1 is returned.

ERRORS

If an error is returned, then errno will have one of the following values:

EINVAL

An invalid virtual ring buffer pointer was specified.

ENOSPC

The specified length is greater than the empty space in the virtual ring buffer.

SEE ALSO

vrb(3), vrb_capacity(3), vrb_data_len(3), vrb_data_ptr(3), vrb_destroy(3), vrb_get(3), vrb_get_min(3), vrb_init(3), vrb_init_opt(3), vrb_is_empty(3), vrb_is_full(3), vrb_is_not_empty(3), vrb_is_not_full(3), vrb_move(3), vrb_new(3), vrb_new_opt(3), vrb_put(3), vrb_put_all(3), vrb_read(3), vrb_read_min(3), vrb_resize(3), vrb_space_len(3), vrb_space_ptr(3), vrb_take(3), vrb_uninit(3), vrb_write(3), vrb_write_min(3)