VBoxGuestR3Lib.cpp revision e64031e20c39650a7bc902a3e1aba613b9415dee
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * VBoxGuestR3Lib - Ring-3 Support Library for VirtualBox guest additions, Core.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * Copyright (C) 2007 Oracle Corporation
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * The contents of this file may alternatively be used under the terms
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03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel/*******************************************************************************
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel* Header Files *
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel*******************************************************************************/
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel || defined(RT_OS_LINUX) \
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel# if defined(RT_OS_LINUX) /** @todo check this on solaris+freebsd as well. */
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel/* Rather than try to resolve all the header file conflicts, I will just
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel prototype what we need here. */
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baesteveltypedef void *pointer;
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevelextern "C" int xf86ioctl(int, unsigned long, pointer);
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel/*******************************************************************************
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel* Global Variables *
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel*******************************************************************************/
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel/** The VBoxGuest device handle. */
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel/** User counter.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * A counter of the number of times the library has been initialised, for use with
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * X.org drivers, where the library may be shared by multiple independant modules
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * inside a single process space.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * Implementation of VbglR3Init and VbglR3InitUser
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * This will fail if two (or more) threads race each other calling VbglR3Init.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * However it will work fine for single threaded or otherwise serialized
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * processed calling us more than once.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * Have to use CreateFile here as we want to specify FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * and possible some other bits not availble thru iprt/file.h.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * We might wish to compile this with Watcom, so stick to
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * the OS/2 APIs all the way. And in any case we have to use
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * DosDevIOCtl for the requests, why not use Dos* for everything.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel APIRET rc = DosOpen((PCSZ)pszDeviceName, &hf, &ulAction, 0, FILE_NORMAL,
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel OPEN_FLAGS_FAIL_ON_ERROR | OPEN_FLAGS_NOINHERIT | OPEN_SHARE_DENYNONE | OPEN_ACCESS_READWRITE,
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel unsigned i;
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel if (i-- > 1)
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel fulState &= OPEN_FLAGS_WRITE_THROUGH | OPEN_FLAGS_FAIL_ON_ERROR | OPEN_FLAGS_NO_CACHE | OPEN_FLAGS_NOINHERIT; /* Turn off non-participating bits. */
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel while (i-- > 0)
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel /* The default implemenation. (linux, solaris, freebsd) */
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel int rc = RTFileOpen(&File, pszDeviceName, RTFILE_O_READWRITE | RTFILE_O_OPEN | RTFILE_O_DENY_NONE);
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * Create release logger
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel static const char * const s_apszGroups[] = VBOX_LOGGROUP_NAMES;
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel int rc2 = RTLogCreate(&pReleaseLogger, 0, "all", "VBOX_RELEASE_LOG",
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel /* This may legitimately fail if we are using the mini-runtime. */
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * Open the VBox R3 Guest Library. This should be called by system daemons
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * and processes.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * Open the VBox R3 Guest Library. Equivalent to VbglR3Init, but for user
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * session processes.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * Decrement the reference count and see if we're the last one out.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel# else /* The IPRT case. */
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel#else /* VBOX_VBGLR3_XFREE86 */
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel#endif /* VBOX_VBGLR3_XFREE86 */
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * Internal wrapper around various OS specific ioctl implemenations.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * @returns VBox status code as returned by VBoxGuestCommonIOCtl, or
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * an failure returned by the OS specific ioctl APIs.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * @param iFunction The requested function.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * @param pvData The input and output data buffer.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * @param cbData The size of the buffer.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * @remark Exactly how the VBoxGuestCommonIOCtl is ferried back
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * here is OS specific. On BSD and Darwin we can use errno,
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * while on OS/2 we use the 2nd buffer of the IOCtl.
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevelint vbglR3DoIOCtl(unsigned iFunction, void *pvData, size_t cbData)
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel if (!DeviceIoControl(g_hFile, iFunction, pvData, (DWORD)cbData, pvData, (DWORD)cbData, &cbReturned, NULL))
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel/** @todo The passing of error codes needs to be tested and fixed (as does *all* the other hosts except for
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * OS/2). The idea is that the VBox status codes in ring-0 should be transfered without loss down to
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * ring-3. However, it's not vitally important right now (obviously, since the other guys has been
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * ignoring it for 1+ years now). On Linux and Solaris the transfer is done, but it is currently not
03831d35f7499c87d51205817c93e9a8d42c4baestevel * lossless, so still needs fixing. */
return vrc;
return VINF_SUCCESS;
# ifdef VBOX_VBGLR3_XFREE86
return VINF_SUCCESS;
if (rc > 0)
# ifdef VBOX_VBGLR3_XFREE86
return rc;
/* PORTME - This is preferred over the RTFileIOCtl variant below, just be careful with the (int). */
return VINF_SUCCESS;
return rc;