gettext/lib/pipe-bidi.c

/* Creation of subprocesses, communicating via pipes.
   Copyright (C) 2001-2002 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 "pipe.h"

#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.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 "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)


#ifdef EINTR

/* EINTR handling for close().
   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 (int fd)
{
  int retval;

  do
    retval = close (fd);
  while (retval < 0 && errno == EINTR);

  return retval;
}
#define close nonintr_close

#endif


/* Open a bidirectional pipe.
 *
 *           write       system                read
 *    parent  ->   fd[1]   ->   STDIN_FILENO    ->   child
 *    parent  <-   fd[0]   <-   STDOUT_FILENO   <-   child
 *           read        system                write
 *
 */
pid_t
create_pipe_bidi (const char *progname,
		  const char *prog_path, char **prog_argv,
		  bool null_stderr,
		  bool exit_on_error,
		  int fd[2])
{
  int ifd[2];
  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 (ifd) < 0)
    error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("cannot create pipe"));
  if (pipe (ofd) < 0)
    error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("cannot create pipe"));
/* Data flow diagram:
 *
 *           write        system         read
 *    parent  ->   ofd[1]   ->   ofd[0]   ->   child
 *    parent  <-   ifd[0]   <-   ifd[1]   <-   child
 *           read         system         write
 *
 */

#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_adddup2 (&actions,
						      ifd[1], STDOUT_FILENO))
	     != 0
	  || (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose (&actions, ofd[0])) != 0
	  || (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose (&actions, ifd[1])) != 0
	  || (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose (&actions, ofd[1])) != 0
	  || (err = posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose (&actions, ifd[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))
    {
      if (actions_allocated)
	posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy (&actions);
      if (exit_on_error)
	error (EXIT_FAILURE, err, _("%s subprocess failed"), progname);
      else
	{
	  close (ifd[0]);
	  close (ifd[1]);
	  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;

      if (dup2 (ofd[0], STDIN_FILENO) >= 0
	  && dup2 (ifd[1], STDOUT_FILENO) >= 0
	  && close (ofd[0]) >= 0
	  && close (ifd[1]) >= 0
	  && close (ofd[1]) >= 0
	  && close (ifd[0]) >= 0
	  && (!null_stderr
	      || ((nulloutfd = open ("/dev/null", O_RDWR, 0)) >= 0
		  && (nulloutfd == STDERR_FILENO
		      || (dup2 (nulloutfd, STDERR_FILENO) >= 0
			  && close (nulloutfd) >= 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 (ifd[0]);
	  close (ifd[1]);
	  close (ofd[0]);
	  close (ofd[1]);
	  return -1;
	}
    }
#endif
  close (ofd[0]);
  close (ifd[1]);

  fd[0] = ifd[0];
  fd[1] = ofd[1];
  return child;
}