// Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #ifndef CHROME_COMMON_CHILD_PROCESS_HOST_H_ #define CHROME_COMMON_CHILD_PROCESS_HOST_H_ #include #include // Must be included early (e.g. before chrome/common/plugin_messages.h) #include "ipc/ipc_logging.h" // Putting this before ipc_logging.h does not work (OS_WIN isn't defined) #if defined(OS_WIN) #include #endif // defined(OS_WIN) #include "base/basictypes.h" #include "base/file_path.h" #include "base/scoped_ptr.h" #include "chrome/common/notification_type.h" #include "ipc/ipc_channel.h" class CommandLine; // Provides common functionality for hosting a child process and processing IPC // messages between the host and the child process. Subclasses are responsible // for the actual launching and terminating of the child processes. // class ChildProcessHost : public IPC::Channel::Listener { public: virtual ~ChildProcessHost(); // Returns the pathname to be used for a child process. If a subprocess // pathname was specified on the command line, that will be used. Otherwise, // the default child process pathname will be returned. On most platforms, // this will be the same as the currently-executing process. // // The argument allow_self is used on Linux to indicate that we allow us to // fork from /proc/self/exe rather than using the "real" app path. This // prevents autoupdate from confusing us if it changes the file out from // under us. You will generally want to set this to true, except when there // is an override to the command line (for example, we're forking a renderer // in gdb). In this case, you'd use GetChildPath to get the real executable // file name, and then prepend the GDB command to the command line. // // On failure, returns an empty FilePath. static FilePath GetChildPath(bool allow_self); #if defined(OS_WIN) // See comments in the cc file. This is a common hack needed for a process // hosting a sandboxed child process. Hence it lives in this file. static void PreCacheFont(LOGFONT font); #endif // defined(OS_WIN) protected: ChildProcessHost(); // A helper method to send an IPC message to the child on the channel. // It behavies just like IPC::Message::Sender::Send. The implementor takes // ownership of the given Message regardless of whether or not this method // succeeds. This class does not implement IPC::Message::Sender to prevent // conflicts with subclasses which indirectly could inherit from // IPC::Message::Sender. bool SendOnChannel(IPC::Message* msg); // Derived classes return true if it's ok to shut down the child process. virtual bool CanShutdown() = 0; // Send the shutdown message to the child process. // Does not check if CanShutdown is true. virtual void ForceShutdown(); // Creates the IPC channel. Returns true iff it succeeded. virtual bool CreateChannel(); // Notifies us that an instance has been created on this child process. virtual void InstanceCreated(); // IPC::Channel::Listener implementation: virtual void OnMessageReceived(const IPC::Message& msg) { } virtual void OnChannelConnected(int32 peer_pid) { } virtual void OnChannelError() { } bool opening_channel() { return opening_channel_; } const std::string& channel_id() { return channel_id_; } IPC::Channel* channel() { return channel_.get(); } // Called when the child process goes away. virtual void OnChildDied(); // Allows the derived implementation to intercept a message before it is // handed to the IPC::Channel::Listener::OnMessageReceived implementation. virtual bool InterceptMessageFromChild(const IPC::Message& msg) { return false; } // Subclasses can implement specific notification methods. virtual void Notify(NotificationType type) { } private: // By using an internal class as the IPC::Channel::Listener, we can intercept // OnMessageReceived/OnChannelConnected and do our own processing before // calling the subclass' implementation. class ListenerHook : public IPC::Channel::Listener { public: explicit ListenerHook(ChildProcessHost* host); virtual void OnMessageReceived(const IPC::Message& msg); virtual void OnChannelConnected(int32 peer_pid); virtual void OnChannelError(); private: ChildProcessHost* host_; }; ListenerHook listener_; bool opening_channel_; // True while we're waiting the channel to be opened. scoped_ptr channel_; std::string channel_id_; }; #endif // CHROME_COMMON_CHILD_PROCESS_HOST_H_