/* * _obnammodule.c -- Python extensions for Obna * * Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Lars Wirzenius * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. */ /* * This is a Python extension module written for Obnam, the backup * software. * * This module provides a way to call the posix_fadvise function from * Python. Obnam uses this to use set the POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL and * POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED flags, to make sure the kernel knows that it will * read files sequentially and that the data does not need to be cached. * This makes Obnam not trash the disk buffer cache, which is nice. */ #include #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 #include #include #include static PyObject * fadvise_dontneed(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) { int fd; /* Can't use off_t for offset and len, since PyArg_ParseTuple doesn't know it. */ unsigned long long offset; unsigned long long len; int ret; if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "iLL", &fd, &offset, &len)) return NULL; ret = posix_fadvise(fd, offset, len, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED); return Py_BuildValue("i", ret); } static PyObject * lutimes_wrapper(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) { int ret; long atime; long mtime; struct timeval tv[2]; const char *filename; if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "sll", &filename, &atime, &mtime)) return NULL; tv[0].tv_sec = atime; tv[0].tv_usec = 0; tv[1].tv_sec = mtime; tv[1].tv_usec = 0; ret = lutimes(filename, tv); if (ret == -1) ret = errno; return Py_BuildValue("i", ret); } static PyMethodDef methods[] = { {"fadvise_dontneed", fadvise_dontneed, METH_VARARGS, "Call posix_fadvise(2) with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED argument."}, {"lutimes", lutimes_wrapper, METH_VARARGS, "lutimes(2) wrapper; args are filename, atime, and mtime."}, {NULL, NULL, 0, NULL} /* Sentinel */ }; PyMODINIT_FUNC init_obnam(void) { (void) Py_InitModule("_obnam", methods); }