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/* gspawn.h - Process launching
*
* Copyright 2000 Red Hat, Inc.
*
* GLib 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 of the
* License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* GLib 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 GLib; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write
* to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
* Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/
#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 <literal>EACCES</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_PERM: execv() returned <literal>EPERM</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_TOO_BIG: execv() returned <literal>E2BIG</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_2BIG: deprecated alias for %G_SPAWN_ERROR_TOO_BIG
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOEXEC: execv() returned <literal>ENOEXEC</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NAMETOOLONG: execv() returned <literal>ENAMETOOLONG</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOENT: execv() returned <literal>ENOENT</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOMEM: execv() returned <literal>ENOMEM</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NOTDIR: execv() returned <literal>ENOTDIR</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_LOOP: execv() returned <literal>ELOOP</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_TXTBUSY: execv() returned <literal>ETXTBUSY</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_IO: execv() returned <literal>EIO</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_NFILE: execv() returned <literal>ENFILE</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_MFILE: execv() returned <literal>EMFILE</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_INVAL: execv() returned <literal>EINVAL</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_ISDIR: execv() returned <literal>EISDIR</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_LIBBAD: execv() returned <literal>ELIBBAD</literal>
* @G_SPAWN_ERROR_FAILED: Some other fatal failure,
* <literal>error-&gt;message</literal> 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: 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
* <citerefentry><refentrytitle>signal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
* 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 <literal>g_spawn...</literal> function.
*/
typedef void (* GSpawnChildSetupFunc) (gpointer user_data);
/**
* GSpawnFlags:
* @G_SPAWN_LEAVE_DESCRIPTORS_OPEN: the parent's open file descriptors will be
* inherited by the child; otherwise all descriptors except stdin/stdout/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 <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> yourself), or the child will become a zombie.
* @G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH: <literal>argv[0]</literal> need not be an absolute path,
* it will be looked for in the user's <envar>PATH</envar>.
* @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
* <filename>/dev/null</filename>).
* @G_SPAWN_FILE_AND_ARGV_ZERO: the first element of <literal>argv</literal> 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
* <literal>argv[0]</literal> as the file to execute, and passes all of
* <literal>argv</literal> to the child.
* @G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH_FROM_ENVP: if <literal>argv[0]</literal> is not an abolute path,
* it will be looked for in the <envar>PATH</envar> from the passed child
* environment. Since: 2.34
*
* Flags passed to g_spawn_sync(), g_spawn_async() and g_spawn_async_with_pipes().
*/
typedef enum
{
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
} 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);
/* 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);
#ifdef G_OS_WIN32
#define g_spawn_async g_spawn_async_utf8
#define g_spawn_async_with_pipes g_spawn_async_with_pipes_utf8
#define g_spawn_sync g_spawn_sync_utf8
#define g_spawn_command_line_sync g_spawn_command_line_sync_utf8
#define g_spawn_command_line_async g_spawn_command_line_async_utf8
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_spawn_async_utf8 (const gchar *working_directory,
gchar **argv,
gchar **envp,
GSpawnFlags flags,
GSpawnChildSetupFunc child_setup,
gpointer user_data,
GPid *child_pid,
GError **error);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_spawn_async_with_pipes_utf8 (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);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_spawn_sync_utf8 (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_utf8 (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_utf8 (const gchar *command_line,
GError **error);
#endif
G_END_DECLS
#endif /* __G_SPAWN_H__ */