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vrb_take(3) VRB Programmer's Manual vrb_take(3)

NAME

vrb_take - take data from a VRB

LIBRARY

-lvrb

SYNOPSIS

#include <vrb.h>
 
vrb_p vrb_take(vrb_p vrb, size_t size);

DESCRIPTION

vrb_take specifies how much data has been obtained from the data portion of the virtual ring buffer by the caller.
 
The caller will have called vrb_data_len(3) and vrb_data_ptr(3) to get the length of data in the buffer and a pointer to it, and having extract some data from the buffer, starting from the pointer obtained and extrating 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 obtained from the virtual ring buffer 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 data 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_give(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_uninit(3), vrb_write(3), vrb_write_min(3)
2002-09-30 vrb