/* * packfs.h — public API of PackFS. * * PackFS is a statically linked, in-process virtual file system. The design * rationale for every decision in this header is recorded in concept.md, * which this implementation follows; concept.md is frozen (see CLAUDE.md) * and is not re-derived here. * * SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */ #ifndef PACKFS_H #define PACKFS_H #include #include /* Semantic versioning (semver.org). 0.x per semver's own definition means * the public API may still change between minor versions without a major * bump — consistent with this codebase's own "v0" status (README.md * "Status"): an initial, partial implementation of concept.md, not a * completed one. PACKFS_VERSION_STRING and pfs_version() always agree * (the latter is generated from the former's components, not maintained * separately) and both come from this header, so a statically-linked * consumer's PACKFS_VERSION_* macros and a dynamically-linked consumer's * pfs_version() call always describe the same build. */ #define PACKFS_VERSION_MAJOR 0 #define PACKFS_VERSION_MINOR 1 #define PACKFS_VERSION_PATCH 0 #define PACKFS_VERSION_STRING "0.1.0" #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /* concept.md Section 8 leaves isize/usize as project-defined typedefs. */ typedef ptrdiff_t pfs_isize; typedef size_t pfs_usize; typedef struct Vfs Vfs; typedef struct VfsFile VfsFile; typedef struct Backend Backend; typedef enum { VFS_OK = 0, VFS_ERR_NOENT = -1, /* path does not exist */ VFS_ERR_EXIST = -2, /* path already exists */ VFS_ERR_NOTDIR = -3, /* path component is not a directory */ VFS_ERR_ISDIR = -4, /* operation not valid on a directory */ VFS_ERR_INVAL = -5, /* invalid argument (includes path escapes, see Section 6) */ VFS_ERR_IO = -6, /* host I/O error */ VFS_ERR_NOSPC = -7, /* out of space / allocation failure */ VFS_ERR_PERM = -8, /* operation not permitted (e.g. write to read-only backend) */ VFS_ERR_NOTEMPTY = -9, /* directory not empty */ VFS_ERR_CORRUPT = -10, /* pack failed integrity validation, Section 7 */ VFS_ERR_NOMOUNT = -11 /* no backend mounted for this path */ } VfsStatus; typedef enum { VFS_KIND_FILE = 0, VFS_KIND_DIR = 1 } VfsEntryKind; /* Result of vfs_stat. For a directory, `size` is always 0 (directories * carry no byte content) and `mtime` is 0 for one that exists only * implicitly via a child's path (Section 9.3) rather than an explicit * directory-marker entry. */ typedef struct VfsStat { pfs_usize size; int64_t mtime; /* seconds since epoch */ VfsEntryKind kind; } VfsStat; /* One child of a directory, as populated by vfs_readdir. `name` is the * final path component only (not the full path), NUL-terminated. */ typedef struct VfsDirEntry { char name[256]; VfsEntryKind kind; } VfsDirEntry; /* Result of vfs_readdir: `count` entries at `entries`, owned by the * caller until passed to vfs_dir_free. A freshly zeroed VfsDir * (`{0}`/`memset`) is always safe to pass to vfs_dir_free even if * vfs_readdir was never called on it or returned an error. */ typedef struct VfsDir { VfsDirEntry *entries; pfs_usize count; } VfsDir; /* Flags for vfs_open, bitwise-OR'd. VFS_O_RDONLY is 0, i.e. the absence * of VFS_O_WRONLY/VFS_O_RDWR, matching POSIX's convention. */ #define VFS_O_RDONLY 0x00 #define VFS_O_WRONLY 0x01 #define VFS_O_RDWR 0x02 #define VFS_O_CREAT 0x04 /* create the file if it does not already exist */ #define VFS_O_TRUNC 0x08 /* reset an existing file's content to empty */ /* --- VFS lifecycle -------------------------------------------------- */ Vfs *vfs_new(void); void vfs_free(Vfs *v); /* Returns PACKFS_VERSION_STRING of the linked library (not necessarily the * header a caller compiled against, for a dynamically-linked consumer) — * an ABI/API compatibility check available at runtime, not just compile * time. Always non-NULL, always a byte-identical string literal, never * allocated: never free() the result. */ const char *pfs_version(void); /* --- Backend constructors ------------------------------------------- * * Every backend is a Backend* handed to vfs_mount. Backends not currently * mounted anywhere may be freed with backend_free; a backend still mounted * must be unmounted first. */ /* mem: default writable layer (Section 3.1). */ Backend *backend_mem_new(void); /* dir: capability-scoped host directory, containment per Section 6. */ Backend *backend_dir_new(const char *host_path, int *err); /* * pack: a shipped tree in one file, read-only, loaded and validated per * Section 7 (Section 2.1, 3.1). Every mutating operation on a Backend * returned by this constructor (open with a write flag, mkdir, unlink, * rename, sync) returns VFS_ERR_PERM rather than being silently absorbed. * To make a pack writable, wrap it in an overlay via backend_overlay_new * instead of mounting it directly. */ Backend *backend_pack_new(const char *pack_path, int *err); /* * overlay: copy-on-write overlay per Sections 4-5. `pack_path` is the pack * image backing the read-only lower layer: if the file exists it is * loaded and validated (Section 7) at mount time; NULL means "start with * an empty lower layer" (vfs_sync then requires a non-NULL path to have * been set — pass one via backend_overlay_new even for a fresh overlay * that has no pack file yet). `upper` must be a `mem` or `dir` backend, * not otherwise mounted; the overlay does not take ownership of it — free * it explicitly after unmounting the overlay. A journal at * `pack_path` + ".jnl" (Section 4.4) is replayed at mount time if present, * and rewritten (not appended past its watermark) on every vfs_sync * (Section 5.3). */ Backend *backend_overlay_new(const char *pack_path, Backend *upper, int *err); void backend_free(Backend *b); /* --- Mounting -------------------------------------------------------- * * The mount table is itself part of the atomically-swapped snapshot * (Section 5.3): vfs_mount/vfs_unmount are structural writes, serialized * against each other and against every other structural write, and never * observed mid-change by a concurrent path resolution. */ /* Mounts `b` at `prefix` (longest-prefix match resolves overlapping * mounts, Section 2.2). Returns VFS_ERR_INVAL if `prefix` fails * virtual-namespace canonicalization (Section 6.1), VFS_ERR_EXIST if a * mount already exists at exactly this prefix, else VFS_OK. */ int vfs_mount(Vfs *v, const char *prefix, Backend *b); /* Detaches the backend mounted at exactly `prefix`. Returns * VFS_ERR_NOMOUNT if nothing is mounted there. The detached Backend is * not freed — call backend_free explicitly once no other thread can * still be resolving a path through it. */ int vfs_unmount(Vfs *v, const char *prefix); /* --- File operations -------------------------------------------------- */ /* Opens `path` per the resolved backend's semantics. VFS_O_CREAT creates * a new file if none exists; VFS_O_TRUNC resets an existing file's * content to empty. Returns NULL and sets *err on failure (e.g. * VFS_ERR_NOENT if the path doesn't exist and VFS_O_CREAT wasn't given, * VFS_ERR_ISDIR if the path names a directory, VFS_ERR_PERM if the * backend or the specific path is read-only). */ VfsFile *vfs_open(Vfs *v, const char *path, int flags, int *err); /* Reads up to `n` bytes from the file's current position into `buf`, * advancing that position by the number of bytes actually read. Returns * the byte count (0 at end of file), or a negative VfsStatus on error. */ pfs_isize vfs_read(VfsFile *f, void *buf, pfs_usize n); /* Writes `n` bytes from `buf` at the file's current position, advancing * that position by the number of bytes actually written; a write past * the current end of the file extends it. Returns the byte count * written, or a negative VfsStatus on error (e.g. VFS_ERR_PERM for a * file opened read-only or served from a read-only backend). */ pfs_isize vfs_write(VfsFile *f, const void *buf, pfs_usize n); /* Closes a file handle from vfs_open, releasing every resource it held. * `f` must not be used again afterward. Always returns VFS_OK. */ int vfs_close(VfsFile *f); /* Fills `out` with `path`'s size, kind, and mtime. Returns VFS_ERR_NOENT * if nothing exists at that path in the resolved backend. */ int vfs_stat(Vfs *v, const char *path, VfsStat *out); /* Lists the immediate children of the directory at `path` into `out` * (caller-owned until passed to vfs_dir_free). Returns VFS_ERR_NOENT if * `path` doesn't exist, VFS_ERR_NOTDIR if it names a file. */ int vfs_readdir(Vfs *v, const char *path, VfsDir *out); /* Frees the entries array a prior vfs_readdir populated into `*d` and * zeroes it; safe to call on an already-freed or zeroed VfsDir. */ void vfs_dir_free(VfsDir *d); /* Creates an empty directory at `path` (Section 9.3: this writes an * explicit, compaction-surviving marker, since an empty directory has no * file beneath it to imply its existence). Returns VFS_ERR_EXIST if * `path` already names something. */ int vfs_mkdir(Vfs *v, const char *path); /* Removes the file or empty directory at `path`. Returns VFS_ERR_NOENT * if nothing exists there, VFS_ERR_NOTEMPTY for a non-empty directory, * VFS_ERR_PERM if the resolved backend is read-only. Against an overlay, * removing a path that exists in the read-only lower pack writes a * whiteout rather than failing (Section 4.2). */ int vfs_unlink(Vfs *v, const char *path); /* Moves the entry at `from` to `to` within the same mount; both paths * must resolve to the same backend (VFS_ERR_INVAL otherwise — v0 does * not support a cross-mount rename). */ int vfs_rename(Vfs *v, const char *from, const char *to); /* * vfs_sync compacts the overlay mounted exactly at `overlay_prefix` * (Section 4.1 step 5, Section 5.3): it freezes the current upper * snapshot, writes a new pack, and replaces the journal with only the * records written after the watermark (Section 5.3, Section 4.4). */ int vfs_sync(Vfs *v, const char *overlay_prefix); /* * Optional, opt-in, process-wide Landlock hardening (Section 6.2). This * is deliberately NOT applied automatically by vfs_mount: Landlock * restrictions are cumulative, irreversible, and apply to the whole * calling process/thread, which would be a surprising side effect for an * embeddable library to trigger on its own. Call it once, after all `dir` * mounts the process will ever need are in place, if the embedding * application wants the whole process confined to exactly those * directories at the kernel level. Returns VFS_OK on success; if the * running kernel does not support Landlock, it returns VFS_ERR_PERM and * changes nothing — this is the documented residual-risk fallback of * Section 6.3, not a fatal error. */ int vfs_harden_process_with_landlock(Vfs *v); #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif /* PACKFS_H */