/* Creation of subprocesses, communicating via pipes. Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible , 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 "pipe.h" #include #include #include #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H # include #endif #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_SPAWN # include #else # ifdef HAVE_VFORK_H # include # endif #endif #include "error.h" #include "exit.h" #include "gettext.h" #ifndef STDIN_FILENO # define STDIN_FILENO 0 #endif #ifndef STDOUT_FILENO # define STDOUT_FILENO 1 #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)); # ifdef __GNUC__ static inline int nonintr_open PARAMS ((const char *pathname, int oflag, mode_t mode)); # endif #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 /* Open a pipe for output to a child process. * The child's stdout goes to a file. * * write system read * parent -> fd[0] -> STDIN_FILENO -> child * */ pid_t create_pipe_out (progname, prog_path, prog_argv, prog_stdout, null_stderr, exit_on_error, fd) const char *progname; const char *prog_path; char **prog_argv; const char *prog_stdout; bool null_stderr; bool exit_on_error; int fd[1]; { int ofd[2]; #if HAVE_POSIX_SPAWN posix_spawn_file_actions_t actions; bool actions_allocated; int err; pid_t child; #else int child; #endif if (pipe (ofd) < 0) error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("cannot create pipe")); /* Data flow diagram: * * write system read * parent -> ofd[1] -> ofd[0] -> child */ #if HAVE_POSIX_SPAWN actions_allocated = false; if ((err = posix_spawn_file_actions_init (&actions)) != 0 || (actions_allocated = true, (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2 (&actions, ofd[0], STDIN_FILENO)) != 0 || (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose (&actions, ofd[0])) != 0 || (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose (&actions, ofd[1])) != 0 || (null_stderr && (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen (&actions, STDERR_FILENO, "/dev/null", O_RDWR, 0)) != 0) || (prog_stdout != NULL && (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen (&actions, STDOUT_FILENO, prog_stdout, O_WRONLY, 0)) != 0) || (err = posix_spawnp (&child, prog_path, &actions, NULL, prog_argv, environ)) != 0)) { if (actions_allocated) posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy (&actions); if (exit_on_error) error (EXIT_FAILURE, err, _("%s subprocess failed"), progname); else { close (ofd[0]); close (ofd[1]); return -1; } } posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy (&actions); #else /* Use vfork() instead of fork() for efficiency. */ if ((child = vfork ()) == 0) { /* Child process code. */ int nulloutfd; int stdoutfd; if (dup2 (ofd[0], STDIN_FILENO) >= 0 && close (ofd[0]) >= 0 && close (ofd[1]) >= 0 && (!null_stderr || ((nulloutfd = open ("/dev/null", O_RDWR, 0)) >= 0 && (nulloutfd == STDERR_FILENO || (dup2 (nulloutfd, STDERR_FILENO) >= 0 && close (nulloutfd) >= 0)))) && (prog_stdout == NULL || ((stdoutfd = open (prog_stdout, O_WRONLY, 0)) >= 0 && (stdoutfd == STDOUT_FILENO || (dup2 (stdoutfd, STDOUT_FILENO) >= 0 && close (stdoutfd) >= 0))))) execvp (prog_path, prog_argv); _exit (127); } if (child == -1) { if (exit_on_error) error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("%s subprocess failed"), progname); else { close (ofd[0]); close (ofd[1]); return -1; } } #endif close (ofd[0]); fd[0] = ofd[1]; return child; }