#ifndef lint static const char RCSid[] = "$Id: unix_process.c,v 3.6 2004/09/19 08:42:22 greg Exp $"; #endif /* * Routines to communicate with separate process via dual pipes * Unix version * * External symbols declared in standard.h */ #include "copyright.h" #include #include #include #include "rtprocess.h" int open_process( /* open communication to separate process */ SUBPROC *pd, char *av[] ) { extern char *getpath(), *getenv(); char *compath; int p0[2], p1[2]; pd->running = 0; /* not yet */ /* find executable */ compath = getpath(av[0], getenv("PATH"), 1); if (compath == 0) return(0); if (pipe(p0) < 0 || pipe(p1) < 0) return(-1); if ((pd->pid = fork()) == 0) { /* if child */ close(p0[1]); close(p1[0]); if (p0[0] != 0) { /* connect p0 to stdin */ dup2(p0[0], 0); close(p0[0]); } if (p1[1] != 1) { /* connect p1 to stdout */ dup2(p1[1], 1); close(p1[1]); } execv(compath, av); /* exec command */ perror(compath); _exit(127); } if (pd->pid == -1) return(-1); close(p0[0]); close(p1[1]); pd->r = p1[0]; pd->w = p0[1]; /* * Close write stream on exec to avoid multiprocessing deadlock. * No use in read stream without it, so set flag there as well. * GW: This bug took me two days to figure out!! */ fcntl(pd->r, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC); fcntl(pd->w, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC); pd->running = 1; return(PIPE_BUF); } int close_process( /* close pipes and wait for process */ SUBPROC *pd ) { int pid, status; if (!pd->running) return(0); close(pd->r); close(pd->w); pd->running = 0; if (waitpid(pd->pid, &status, 0) == pd->pid) return(status>>8 & 0xff); return(-1); /* ? unknown status */ }