The repo file format / razor_set data structure ----------------------------------------------- The repo starts with a header, containing some number of sections, terminated by a section with type 0: struct razor_set_header { uint32_t magic; uint32_t version; struct razor_set_section sections[0]; }; struct razor_set_section { uint32_t type; uint32_t offset; uint32_t size; }; razor_set_open() mmaps the repo file, and creates a struct razor_set: struct razor_set { struct array string_pool; struct array packages; struct array properties; struct array files; struct array package_pool; struct array property_pool; struct array file_pool; struct razor_set_header *header; }; by finding the sections with those IDs and creating "struct array"s pointing to the right places in the mmapped data. (This is the only processing needed when reading in the file; everything else is used exactly as-is.) The sections ------------ RAZOR_STRING_POOL Stores one copy of each string that appears in the repo. (At the moment, this is: package names, package versions, property names, property versions, and (basenames of) filenames.) The strings are arbitrarily-sized, 0-terminated, and not in any particular order (although the empty string always ends up being at offset 0). RAZOR_PACKAGES Array of struct razor_package; one for each package in the set, sorted by name. RAZOR_PROPERTIES Array of struct razor_property; one for each unique property in the set, sorted by type, then name, then relation type (eg, "<" or ">="), then version. (Properties with no version have relation type RAZOR_VERSION_EQUAL, and version "".) RAZOR_FILES Array of struct razor_entry; one for each file owned by any package in the set. The current sort order (which is subject to change) is breadth-first, sorted by basename. So eg: /, /bin, /dev, /etc, /bin/false, /bin/true, /dev/null, /etc/passwd. RAZOR_PACKAGE_POOL Array of struct list, with each list item containing the index of a struct razor_package in the packages section. See the discussion of lists below. RAZOR_PROPERTY_POOL Array of struct list, with each list item containing the index of a struct razor_property in the properties section. See the discussion of lists below. RAZOR_FILE_POOL Array of struct list, with each list item containing the index of a struct razor_entry in the files section. See the discussion of lists below. Data types ---------- Note that the exact layout of bits involves some historical accidents. (Particularly the fact that the "name" field in most structs loses its high bits to a flags field.) struct list_head uint list_ptr : 24; uint flags : 8; struct list uint data : 24; uint flags : 8; Used to store lists of package, property, or file IDs. "struct list_head" stores the head of the list, which points to one or more "struct list"s in the appropriate "pool" section. ("struct list" should probably be called "struct list_item".) "list_first(&head, &pool)" returns a "struct list *" pointing to the first element of the list (or NULL for an empty list), and "list_next(list)" will return successive elements, until NULL is returned. Each "list->data" contains the index of a package, property, or file in the corresponding section of the set. Peeking underneath the abstraction, a list_head's "flags" is 0xff if the list is empty, 0x80 if it contains a single element, or 0x00 if it contains more than one element. In the single-element case, that element is actually stored in the list_head directly rather than being stored in a pool (and so list_first() just casts the list_head* to a list* and returns it). For multi-element lists, list_ptr is the index in the pool of the first element of this list; the list continues through successive elements of the pool until one with non-zero flags is reached, indicating the end of the list. struct razor_package uint name : 24; uint flags : 8; uint version : 32; struct list_head properties; struct list_head files; name and version are indexes into string_pool. properties is a list of all of the package's properties, and files is a list of its files. flags is currently only used during razor_set merging, to keep track of which set a package came from. struct razor_property uint name : 24; uint flags : 6; uint type : 2; uint relation : 32; uint version : 32; struct list_head packages; name and version are indexes into string_pool. type is an enum razor_property_type (eg, RAZOR_PROPERTY_REQUIRES), and relation is an enum razor_version_relation (eg, RAZOR_VERSION_GREATER_OR_EQUAL). packages is a list of the packages that have this property. flags is currently unused. struct razor_entry uint name : 24; uint flags : 8; uint start : 32; struct list_head packages; name is an index into string_pool, giving the basename of the file. start is either 0, or an index pointing to another razor_entry that is the first child of this entry (for a non-empty directory). (Entry 0 is always the root of the tree, so no entry could have entry 0 as a child.) flags is 0x80 (RAZOR_ENTRY_LAST) if an entry is the last entry in its directory. Otherwise it is 0. Note that given a pointer to a struct_razor_entry (eg, from a package's "files" list), there is no way to reconstruct its full name without walking the entire files array up to that point. Because of this and other problems (fix_file_map()), it seems like razor_entry should be modified to include a pointer to its parent. (Storing full paths instead of just basenames would also fix this problem, but that would use much more memory.)