#ifndef XENBUS_H__
#define XENBUS_H__

typedef unsigned long xenbus_transaction_t;
#define XBT_NIL ((xenbus_transaction_t)0)

/* Initialize the XenBus system. */
void init_xenbus(void);

/* Read the value associated with a path.  Returns a malloc'd error
   string on failure and sets *value to NULL.  On success, *value is
   set to a malloc'd copy of the value. */
char *xenbus_read(xenbus_transaction_t xbt, const char *path, char **value);

char *xenbus_watch_path(xenbus_transaction_t xbt, const char *path);
void wait_for_watch(void);
char* xenbus_wait_for_value(const char*,const char*);

/* Associates a value with a path.  Returns a malloc'd error string on
   failure. */
char *xenbus_write(xenbus_transaction_t xbt, const char *path, const char *value);

/* Removes the value associated with a path.  Returns a malloc'd error
   string on failure. */
char *xenbus_rm(xenbus_transaction_t xbt, const char *path);

/* List the contents of a directory.  Returns a malloc'd error string
   on failure and sets *contents to NULL.  On success, *contents is
   set to a malloc'd array of pointers to malloc'd strings.  The array
   is NULL terminated.  May block. */
char *xenbus_ls(xenbus_transaction_t xbt, const char *prefix, char ***contents);

/* Reads permissions associated with a path.  Returns a malloc'd error
   string on failure and sets *value to NULL.  On success, *value is
   set to a malloc'd copy of the value. */
char *xenbus_get_perms(xenbus_transaction_t xbt, const char *path, char **value);

/* Sets the permissions associated with a path.  Returns a malloc'd
   error string on failure. */
char *xenbus_set_perms(xenbus_transaction_t xbt, const char *path, domid_t dom, char perm);

/* Start a xenbus transaction.  Returns the transaction in xbt on
   success or a malloc'd error string otherwise. */
char *xenbus_transaction_start(xenbus_transaction_t *xbt);

/* End a xenbus transaction.  Returns a malloc'd error string if it
   fails.  abort says whether the transaction should be aborted.
   Returns 1 in *retry iff the transaction should be retried. */
char *xenbus_transaction_end(xenbus_transaction_t, int abort,
			     int *retry);

/* Read path and parse it as an integer.  Returns -1 on error. */
int xenbus_read_integer(char *path);

#endif /* XENBUS_H__ */