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/* gspawn.h - Process launching
*
* Copyright 2000 Red Hat, Inc.
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library 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
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#ifndef __G_SPAWN_H__
#define __G_SPAWN_H__
#if !defined (__GLIB_H_INSIDE__) && !defined (GLIB_COMPILATION)
#error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
#endif
#include <glib/gerror.h>
G_BEGIN_DECLS
/* I'm not sure I remember our proposed naming convention here. */
/**
* G_SPAWN_ERROR:
*
* Error domain for spawning processes. Errors in this domain will
* be from the #GSpawnError enumeration. See #GError for information on
* error domains.
*/
#define G_SPAWN_ERROR g_spawn_error_quark ()
/**
* GSpawnError:
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_FORK: Fork failed due to lack of memory.
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_READ: Read or select on pipes failed.
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_CHDIR: Changing to working directory failed.
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_ACCES: execv() returned `EACCES`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_PERM: execv() returned `EPERM`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_TOO_BIG: execv() returned `E2BIG`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_2BIG: deprecated alias for %G_SPAWN_ERROR_TOO_BIG
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOEXEC: execv() returned `ENOEXEC`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NAMETOOLONG: execv() returned `ENAMETOOLONG`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOENT: execv() returned `ENOENT`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOMEM: execv() returned `ENOMEM`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOTDIR: execv() returned `ENOTDIR`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_LOOP: execv() returned `ELOOP`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_TXTBUSY: execv() returned `ETXTBUSY`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_IO: execv() returned `EIO`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NFILE: execv() returned `ENFILE`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_MFILE: execv() returned `EMFILE`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_INVAL: execv() returned `EINVAL`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_ISDIR: execv() returned `EISDIR`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_LIBBAD: execv() returned `ELIBBAD`
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_FAILED: Some other fatal failure,
* `error->message` should explain.
*
* Error codes returned by spawning processes.
*/
typedef enum
{
G_SPAWN_ERROR_FORK, /* fork failed due to lack of memory */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_READ, /* read or select on pipes failed */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_CHDIR, /* changing to working dir failed */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_ACCES, /* execv() returned EACCES */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_PERM, /* execv() returned EPERM */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_TOO_BIG,/* execv() returned E2BIG */
#ifndef G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
G_SPAWN_ERROR_2BIG = G_SPAWN_ERROR_TOO_BIG,
#endif
G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOEXEC, /* execv() returned ENOEXEC */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_NAMETOOLONG, /* "" "" ENAMETOOLONG */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOENT, /* "" "" ENOENT */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOMEM, /* "" "" ENOMEM */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOTDIR, /* "" "" ENOTDIR */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_LOOP, /* "" "" ELOOP */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_TXTBUSY, /* "" "" ETXTBUSY */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_IO, /* "" "" EIO */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_NFILE, /* "" "" ENFILE */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_MFILE, /* "" "" EMFLE */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_INVAL, /* "" "" EINVAL */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_ISDIR, /* "" "" EISDIR */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_LIBBAD, /* "" "" ELIBBAD */
G_SPAWN_ERROR_FAILED /* other fatal failure, error->message
* should explain
*/
} GSpawnError;
/**
* G_SPAWN_EXIT_ERROR:
*
* Error domain used by g_spawn_check_exit_status(). The code
* will be the program exit code.
*/
#define G_SPAWN_EXIT_ERROR g_spawn_exit_error_quark ()
/**
* GSpawnChildSetupFunc:
* @user_data: (closure): user data to pass to the function.
*
* Specifies the type of the setup function passed to g_spawn_async(),
* g_spawn_sync() and g_spawn_async_with_pipes(), which can, in very
* limited ways, be used to affect the child's execution.
*
* On POSIX platforms, the function is called in the child after GLib
* has performed all the setup it plans to perform, but before calling
* exec(). Actions taken in this function will only affect the child,
* not the parent.
*
* On Windows, the function is called in the parent. Its usefulness on
* Windows is thus questionable. In many cases executing the child setup
* function in the parent can have ill effects, and you should be very
* careful when porting software to Windows that uses child setup
* functions.
*
* However, even on POSIX, you are extremely limited in what you can
* safely do from a #GSpawnChildSetupFunc, because any mutexes that were
* held by other threads in the parent process at the time of the fork()
* will still be locked in the child process, and they will never be
* unlocked (since the threads that held them don't exist in the child).
* POSIX allows only async-signal-safe functions (see signal(7)) to be
* called in the child between fork() and exec(), which drastically limits
* the usefulness of child setup functions.
*
* In particular, it is not safe to call any function which may
* call malloc(), which includes POSIX functions such as setenv().
* If you need to set up the child environment differently from
* the parent, you should use g_get_environ(), g_environ_setenv(),
* and g_environ_unsetenv(), and then pass the complete environment
* list to the `g_spawn...` function.
*/
typedef void (* GSpawnChildSetupFunc) (gpointer user_data);
/**
* GSpawnFlags:
* @G_SPAWN_DEFAULT: no flags, default behaviour
* @G_SPAWN_LEAVE_DESCRIPTORS_OPEN: the parent's open file descriptors will
* be inherited by the child; otherwise all descriptors except stdin,
* stdout and stderr will be closed before calling exec() in the child.
* @G_SPAWN_DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD: the child will not be automatically reaped;
* you must use g_child_watch_add() yourself (or call waitpid() or handle
* `SIGCHLD` yourself), or the child will become a zombie.
* @G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH: `argv[0]` need not be an absolute path, it will be
* looked for in the user's `PATH`.
* @G_SPAWN_STDOUT_TO_DEV_NULL: the child's standard output will be discarded,
* instead of going to the same location as the parent's standard output.
* @G_SPAWN_STDERR_TO_DEV_NULL: the child's standard error will be discarded.
* @G_SPAWN_CHILD_INHERITS_STDIN: the child will inherit the parent's standard
* input (by default, the child's standard input is attached to `/dev/null`).
* @G_SPAWN_FILE_AND_ARGV_ZERO: the first element of `argv` is the file to
* execute, while the remaining elements are the actual argument vector
* to pass to the file. Normally g_spawn_async_with_pipes() uses `argv[0]`
* as the file to execute, and passes all of `argv` to the child.
* @G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH_FROM_ENVP: if `argv[0]` is not an abolute path,
* it will be looked for in the `PATH` from the passed child environment.
* Since: 2.34
* @G_SPAWN_CLOEXEC_PIPES: create all pipes with the `O_CLOEXEC` flag set.
* Since: 2.40
*
* Flags passed to g_spawn_sync(), g_spawn_async() and g_spawn_async_with_pipes().
*/
typedef enum
{
G_SPAWN_DEFAULT = 0,
G_SPAWN_LEAVE_DESCRIPTORS_OPEN = 1 << 0,
G_SPAWN_DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD = 1 << 1,
/* look for argv[0] in the path i.e. use execvp() */
G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH = 1 << 2,
/* Dump output to /dev/null */
G_SPAWN_STDOUT_TO_DEV_NULL = 1 << 3,
G_SPAWN_STDERR_TO_DEV_NULL = 1 << 4,
G_SPAWN_CHILD_INHERITS_STDIN = 1 << 5,
G_SPAWN_FILE_AND_ARGV_ZERO = 1 << 6,
G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH_FROM_ENVP = 1 << 7,
G_SPAWN_CLOEXEC_PIPES = 1 << 8
} GSpawnFlags;
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GQuark g_spawn_error_quark (void);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GQuark g_spawn_exit_error_quark (void);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_spawn_async (const gchar *working_directory,
gchar **argv,
gchar **envp,
GSpawnFlags flags,
GSpawnChildSetupFunc child_setup,
gpointer user_data,
GPid *child_pid,
GError **error);
/* Opens pipes for non-NULL standard_output, standard_input, standard_error,
* and returns the parent's end of the pipes.
*/
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_spawn_async_with_pipes (const gchar *working_directory,
gchar **argv,
gchar **envp,
GSpawnFlags flags,
GSpawnChildSetupFunc child_setup,
gpointer user_data,
GPid *child_pid,
gint *standard_input,
gint *standard_output,
gint *standard_error,
GError **error);
/* Lets you provide fds for stdin/stdout/stderr */
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_58
gboolean g_spawn_async_with_fds (const gchar *working_directory,
gchar **argv,
gchar **envp,
GSpawnFlags flags,
GSpawnChildSetupFunc child_setup,
gpointer user_data,
GPid *child_pid,
gint stdin_fd,
gint stdout_fd,
gint stderr_fd,
GError **error);
/* If standard_output or standard_error are non-NULL, the full
* standard output or error of the command will be placed there.
*/
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_spawn_sync (const gchar *working_directory,
gchar **argv,
gchar **envp,
GSpawnFlags flags,
GSpawnChildSetupFunc child_setup,
gpointer user_data,
gchar **standard_output,
gchar **standard_error,
gint *exit_status,
GError **error);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_spawn_command_line_sync (const gchar *command_line,
gchar **standard_output,
gchar **standard_error,
gint *exit_status,
GError **error);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_spawn_command_line_async (const gchar *command_line,
GError **error);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_34
gboolean g_spawn_check_exit_status (gint exit_status,
GError **error);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
void g_spawn_close_pid (GPid pid);
G_END_DECLS
#endif /* __G_SPAWN_H__ */