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+/* Creation of autonomous subprocesses.
+ Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001.
+
+ 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 2, 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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
+
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+# include "config.h"
+#endif
+
+/* Specification. */
+#include "execute.h"
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
+# include <unistd.h>
+#endif
+
+#ifdef HAVE_POSIX_SPAWN
+# include <spawn.h>
+#else
+# ifdef HAVE_VFORK_H
+# include <vfork.h>
+# endif
+#endif
+
+#include "error.h"
+#include "wait-process.h"
+#include "libgettext.h"
+
+#ifndef STDIN_FILENO
+# define STDIN_FILENO 0
+#endif
+#ifndef STDOUT_FILENO
+# define STDOUT_FILENO 1
+#endif
+#ifndef STDERR_FILENO
+# define STDERR_FILENO 2
+#endif
+
+#define _(str) gettext (str)
+
+
+/* Prototypes for local functions. Needed to ensure compiler checking of
+ function argument counts despite of K&R C function definition syntax. */
+#ifdef EINTR
+static inline int nonintr_close PARAMS ((int fd));
+static inline int nonintr_open PARAMS ((const char *pathname, int oflag,
+ mode_t mode));
+#endif
+
+
+#ifdef EINTR
+
+/* EINTR handling for close(), open().
+ These functions can return -1/EINTR even though we don't have any
+ signal handlers set up, namely when we get interrupted via SIGSTOP. */
+
+static inline int
+nonintr_close (fd)
+ int fd;
+{
+ int retval;
+
+ do
+ retval = close (fd);
+ while (retval < 0 && errno == EINTR);
+
+ return retval;
+}
+#define close nonintr_close
+
+static inline int
+nonintr_open (pathname, oflag, mode)
+ const char *pathname;
+ int oflag;
+ mode_t mode;
+{
+ int retval;
+
+ do
+ retval = open (pathname, oflag, mode);
+ while (retval < 0 && errno == EINTR);
+
+ return retval;
+}
+#define open nonintr_open
+
+#endif
+
+
+/* Execute a command, optionally redirecting any of the three standard file
+ descriptors to /dev/null. Exit if it didn't terminate correctly.
+ Otherwise return its exit code. */
+int
+execute (progname, prog_path, prog_argv, null_stdin, null_stdout, null_stderr)
+ const char *progname;
+ const char *prog_path;
+ char **prog_argv;
+ bool null_stdin;
+ bool null_stdout;
+ bool null_stderr;
+{
+#if HAVE_POSIX_SPAWN
+ posix_spawn_file_actions_t actions;
+ int err;
+ pid_t child;
+#else
+ int child;
+#endif
+
+#if HAVE_POSIX_SPAWN
+ if ((err = posix_spawn_file_actions_init (&actions)) != 0
+ || (null_stdin
+ && (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen (&actions, STDIN_FILENO,
+ "/dev/null", O_RDONLY, 0))
+ != 0)
+ || (null_stdout
+ && (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen (&actions, STDOUT_FILENO,
+ "/dev/null", O_RDWR, 0))
+ != 0)
+ || (null_stderr
+ && (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen (&actions, STDERR_FILENO,
+ "/dev/null", O_RDWR, 0))
+ != 0)
+ || (err = posix_spawnp (&child, prog_path, &actions, NULL, prog_argv,
+ environ)) != 0)
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, err, _("%s subprocess failed"), progname);
+ posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy (&actions);
+#else
+ /* Use vfork() instead of fork() for efficiency. */
+ if ((child = vfork ()) == 0)
+ {
+ /* Child process code. */
+ int nullinfd;
+ int nulloutfd;
+
+ if ((!null_stdin
+ || ((nullinfd = open ("/dev/null", O_RDONLY, 0)) >= 0
+ && (nullinfd == STDIN_FILENO
+ || (dup2 (nullinfd, STDIN_FILENO) >= 0
+ && close (nullinfd) >= 0))))
+ && (!(null_stdout || null_stderr)
+ || ((nulloutfd = open ("/dev/null", O_RDWR, 0)) >= 0
+ && (!null_stdout
+ || nulloutfd == STDOUT_FILENO
+ || dup2 (nulloutfd, STDOUT_FILENO) >= 0)
+ && (!null_stderr
+ || nulloutfd == STDERR_FILENO
+ || dup2 (nulloutfd, STDERR_FILENO) >= 0)
+ && ((null_stdout && nulloutfd == STDOUT_FILENO)
+ || (null_stderr && nulloutfd == STDERR_FILENO)
+ || close (nulloutfd) >= 0))))
+ execvp (prog_path, prog_argv);
+ _exit (-1);
+ }
+ if (child == -1)
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("%s subprocess failed"), progname);
+#endif
+
+ return wait_subprocess (child, progname);
+}