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| 
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| --- a replacement for aproto -------------------------------------------
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| 
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| When it comes down to it, aproto's primary purpose is to forward
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| various streams between the host computer and client device (in either
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| direction).
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| 
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| This replacement further simplifies the concept, reducing the protocol
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| to an extremely straightforward model optimized to accomplish the
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| forwarding of these streams and removing additional state or
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| complexity.
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| 
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| The host side becomes a simple comms bridge with no "UI", which will 
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| be used by either commandline or interactive tools to communicate with 
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| a device or emulator that is connected to the bridge.
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| 
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| The protocol is designed to be straightforward and well-defined enough 
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| that if it needs to be reimplemented in another environment (Java 
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| perhaps), there should not problems ensuring perfect interoperability.
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| 
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| The protocol discards the layering aproto has and should allow the 
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| implementation to be much more robust.
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| 
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| 
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| --- protocol overview and basics ---------------------------------------
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| 
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| The transport layer deals in "messages", which consist of a 24 byte
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| header followed (optionally) by a payload.  The header consists of 6
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| 32 bit words which are sent across the wire in little endian format.
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| 
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| struct message {
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|     unsigned command;       /* command identifier constant (A_CNXN, ...) */
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|     unsigned arg0;          /* first argument                            */
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|     unsigned arg1;          /* second argument                           */
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|     unsigned data_length;   /* length of payload (0 is allowed)          */
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|     unsigned data_crc32;    /* crc32 of data payload                     */
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|     unsigned magic;         /* command ^ 0xffffffff                      */
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| };
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| 
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| Receipt of an invalid message header, corrupt message payload, or an
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| unrecognized command MUST result in the closing of the remote
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| connection.  The protocol depends on shared state and any break in the
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| message stream will result in state getting out of sync.
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| 
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| The following sections describe the six defined message types in
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| detail.  Their format is COMMAND(arg0, arg1, payload) where the payload
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| is represented by a quoted string or an empty string if none should be
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| sent.
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| 
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| The identifiers "local-id" and "remote-id" are always relative to the
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| *sender* of the message, so for a receiver, the meanings are effectively
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| reversed.
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| 
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| 
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| 
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| --- CONNECT(version, maxdata, "system-identity-string") ----------------
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| 
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| Command constant: A_CNXN
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| 
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| The CONNECT message establishes the presence of a remote system.
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| The version is used to ensure protocol compatibility and maxdata
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| declares the maximum message body size that the remote system
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| is willing to accept.
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| 
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| Currently, version=0x01000000 and maxdata=256*1024. Older versions of adb
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| hard-coded maxdata=4096, so CONNECT and AUTH packets sent to a device must not
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| be larger than that because they're sent before the CONNECT from the device
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| that tells the adb server what maxdata the device can support.
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| 
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| Both sides send a CONNECT message when the connection between them is
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| established.  Until a CONNECT message is received no other messages may
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| be sent. Any messages received before a CONNECT message MUST be ignored.
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| 
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| If a CONNECT message is received with an unknown version or insufficiently
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| large maxdata value, the connection with the other side must be closed.
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| 
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| The system identity string should be "<systemtype>:<serialno>:<banner>"
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| where systemtype is "bootloader", "device", or "host", serialno is some
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| kind of unique ID (or empty), and banner is a human-readable version
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| or identifier string.  The banner is used to transmit useful properties.
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| 
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| --- STLS(type, version, "") --------------------------------------------
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| 
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| Command constant: A_STLS
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| 
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| The TLS message informs the recipient that the connection will be encrypted
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| and will need to perform a TLS handshake. version is the current version of
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| the protocol.
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| 
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| 
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| --- AUTH(type, 0, "data") ----------------------------------------------
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| 
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| Command constant: A_AUTH
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| 
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| The AUTH message informs the recipient that authentication is required to
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| connect to the sender. If type is TOKEN(1), data is a random token that
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| the recipient can sign with a private key. The recipient replies with an
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| AUTH packet where type is SIGNATURE(2) and data is the signature. If the
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| signature verification succeeds, the sender replies with a CONNECT packet.
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| 
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| If the signature verification fails, the sender replies with a new AUTH
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| packet and a new random token, so that the recipient can retry signing
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| with a different private key.
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| 
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| Once the recipient has tried all its private keys, it can reply with an
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| AUTH packet where type is RSAPUBLICKEY(3) and data is the public key. If
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| possible, an on-screen confirmation may be displayed for the user to
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| confirm they want to install the public key on the device.
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| 
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| 
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| --- OPEN(local-id, 0, "destination") -----------------------------------
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| 
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| Command constant: A_OPEN
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| 
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| The OPEN message informs the recipient that the sender has a stream
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| identified by local-id that it wishes to connect to the named
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| destination in the message payload.  The local-id may not be zero.
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| 
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| The OPEN message MUST result in either a READY message indicating that
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| the connection has been established (and identifying the other end) or
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| a CLOSE message, indicating failure.  An OPEN message also implies
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| a READY message sent at the same time.
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| 
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| Common destination naming conventions include:
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| 
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| * "tcp:<host>:<port>" - host may be omitted to indicate localhost
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| * "udp:<host>:<port>" - host may be omitted to indicate localhost
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| * "vsock:<CID>:<port>"
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| * "local-dgram:<identifier>"
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| * "local-stream:<identifier>"
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| * "shell" - local shell service
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| * "upload" - service for pushing files across (like aproto's /sync)
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| * "fs-bridge" - FUSE protocol filesystem bridge
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| 
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| 
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| --- READY(local-id, remote-id, "") -------------------------------------
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| 
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| Command constant: A_OKAY
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| 
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| The READY message informs the recipient that the sender's stream
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| identified by local-id is ready for write messages and that it is
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| connected to the recipient's stream identified by remote-id.
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| 
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| Neither the local-id nor the remote-id may be zero.
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| 
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| A READY message containing a remote-id which does not map to an open
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| stream on the recipient's side is ignored.  The stream may have been
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| closed while this message was in-flight.
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| 
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| The local-id is ignored on all but the first READY message (where it
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| is used to establish the connection).  Nonetheless, the local-id MUST
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| not change on later READY messages sent to the same stream.
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| 
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| 
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| --- WRITE(local-id, remote-id, "data") ---------------------------------
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| 
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| Command constant: A_WRTE
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| 
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| The WRITE message sends data to the recipient's stream identified by
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| remote-id.  The payload MUST be <= maxdata in length.
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| 
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| A WRITE message containing a remote-id which does not map to an open
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| stream on the recipient's side is ignored.  The stream may have been
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| closed while this message was in-flight.
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| 
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| A WRITE message may not be sent until a READY message is received.
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| Once a WRITE message is sent, an additional WRITE message may not be
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| sent until another READY message has been received.  Recipients of
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| a WRITE message that is in violation of this requirement will CLOSE
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| the connection.
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| 
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| 
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| --- CLOSE(local-id, remote-id, "") -------------------------------------
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| 
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| Command constant: A_CLSE
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| 
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| The CLOSE message informs recipient that the connection between the
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| sender's stream (local-id) and the recipient's stream (remote-id) is
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| broken.  The remote-id MUST not be zero, but the local-id MAY be zero
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| if this CLOSE indicates a failed OPEN.
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| 
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| A CLOSE message containing a remote-id which does not map to an open
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| stream on the recipient's side is ignored.  The stream may have
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| already been closed by the recipient while this message was in-flight.
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| 
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| The recipient should not respond to a CLOSE message in any way.  The
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| recipient should cancel pending WRITEs or CLOSEs, but this is not a
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| requirement, since they will be ignored.
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| 
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| 
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| --- SYNC(online, sequence, "") -----------------------------------------
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| 
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| Command constant: A_SYNC
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| 
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| *** obsolete, no longer used ***
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| 
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| The SYNC message was used by the io pump to make sure that stale
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| outbound messages are discarded when the connection to the remote side
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| is broken.  It was only used internally to the bridge and never valid
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| to send across the wire.
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| 
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| * when the connection to the remote side goes offline, the io pump
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|   sends a SYNC(0, 0) and starts discarding all messages
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| * when the connection to the remote side is established, the io pump
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|   sends a SYNC(1, token) and continues to discard messages
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| * when the io pump receives a matching SYNC(1, token), it once again
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|   starts accepting messages to forward to the remote side
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| 
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| 
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| --- message command constants ------------------------------------------
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| 
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| #define A_SYNC 0x434e5953
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| #define A_CNXN 0x4e584e43
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| #define A_AUTH 0x48545541
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| #define A_OPEN 0x4e45504f
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| #define A_OKAY 0x59414b4f
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| #define A_CLSE 0x45534c43
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| #define A_WRTE 0x45545257
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| #define A_STLS 0x534C5453
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| 
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| 
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| 
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| --- implementation details ---------------------------------------------
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| 
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| The core of the bridge program will use three threads.  One thread
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| will be a select/epoll loop to handle io between various inbound and
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| outbound connections and the connection to the remote side.
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| 
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| The remote side connection will be implemented as two threads (one for
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| reading, one for writing) and a datagram socketpair to provide the
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| channel between the main select/epoll thread and the remote connection
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| threadpair.  The reason for this is that for usb connections, the
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| kernel interface on linux and osx does not allow you to do meaningful
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| nonblocking IO.
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| 
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| The endian swapping for the message headers will happen (as needed) in
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| the remote connection threadpair and that the rest of the program will
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| always treat message header values as native-endian.
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| 
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| The bridge program will be able to have a number of mini-servers
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| compiled in.  They will be published under known names (examples
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| "shell", "fs-bridge", etc) and upon receiving an OPEN() to such a
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| service, the bridge program will create a stream socketpair and spawn
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| a thread or subprocess to handle the io.
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| 
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| 
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| --- simplified / embedded implementation -------------------------------
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| 
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| For limited environments, like the bootloader, it is allowable to
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| support a smaller, fixed number of channels using pre-assigned channel
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| ID numbers such that only one stream may be connected to a bootloader
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| endpoint at any given time.  The protocol remains unchanged, but the
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| "embedded" version of it is less dynamic.
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| 
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| The bootloader will support two streams.  A "bootloader:debug" stream,
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| which may be opened to get debug messages from the bootloader and a 
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| "bootloader:control", stream which will support the set of basic 
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| bootloader commands.
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| 
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| Example command stream dialogues:  
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|   "flash_kernel,2515049,........\n" "okay\n" 
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|   "flash_ramdisk,5038,........\n" "fail,flash write error\n" 
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|   "bogus_command......" <CLOSE>
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| 
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| 
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| --- future expansion ---------------------------------------------------
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| 
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| I plan on providing either a message or a special control stream so that
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| the client device could ask the host computer to setup inbound socket
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| translations on the fly on behalf of the client device.
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| 
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| 
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| The initial design does handshaking to provide flow control, with a
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| message flow that looks like:
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| 
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|   >OPEN <READY >WRITE <READY >WRITE <READY >WRITE <CLOSE
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| 
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| The far side may choose to issue the READY message as soon as it receives
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| a WRITE or it may defer the READY until the write to the local stream
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| succeeds.  A future version may want to do some level of windowing where
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| multiple WRITEs may be sent without requiring individual READY acks.
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| 
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| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 
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| --- smartsockets -------------------------------------------------------
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| 
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| Port 5037 is used for smart sockets which allow a client on the host
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| side to request access to a service in the host adb daemon or in the
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| remote (device) daemon.  The service is requested by ascii name,
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| preceeded by a 4 digit hex length.  Upon successful connection an
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| "OKAY" response is sent, otherwise a "FAIL" message is returned.  Once
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| connected the client is talking to that (remote or local) service.
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| 
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| client: <hex4> <service-name>
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| server: "OKAY"
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| 
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| client: <hex4> <service-name>
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| server: "FAIL" <hex4> <reason>
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| 
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