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1 /* Utilities to execute a program in a subprocess (possibly linked by pipes
2 with other subprocesses), and wait for it.
3 Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of the libiberty library.
6 Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
8 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
9 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 Library General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
17 License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
18 write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
19 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
21 /* pexecute is an old routine. This implementation uses the newer
22 pex_init/pex_run/pex_get_status/pex_free routines. Don't use
23 pexecute in new code. Use the newer routines instead. */
25 #include "config.h"
26 #include "libiberty.h"
28 #ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H
29 #include <stdlib.h>
30 #endif
32 /* We only permit a single pexecute chain to execute at a time. This
33 was always true anyhow, though it wasn't documented. */
35 static struct pex_obj *pex;
36 static int idx;
38 int
39 pexecute (const char *program, char * const *argv, const char *pname,
40 const char *temp_base, char **errmsg_fmt, char **errmsg_arg,
41 int flags)
43 const char *errmsg;
44 int err;
46 if ((flags & PEXECUTE_FIRST) != 0)
48 if (pex != NULL)
50 *errmsg_fmt = (char *) "pexecute already in progress";
51 *errmsg_arg = NULL;
52 return -1;
54 pex = pex_init (PEX_USE_PIPES, pname, temp_base);
55 idx = 0;
57 else
59 if (pex == NULL)
61 *errmsg_fmt = (char *) "pexecute not in progress";
62 *errmsg_arg = NULL;
63 return -1;
67 errmsg = pex_run (pex,
68 (((flags & PEXECUTE_LAST) != 0 ? PEX_LAST : 0)
69 | ((flags & PEXECUTE_SEARCH) != 0 ? PEX_SEARCH : 0)),
70 program, argv, NULL, NULL, &err);
71 if (errmsg != NULL)
73 *errmsg_fmt = (char *) errmsg;
74 *errmsg_arg = NULL;
75 return -1;
78 /* Instead of a PID, we just return a one-based index into the
79 status values. We avoid zero just because the old pexecute would
80 never return it. */
81 return ++idx;
84 int
85 pwait (int pid, int *status, int flags ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
87 /* The PID returned by pexecute is one-based. */
88 --pid;
90 if (pex == NULL || pid < 0 || pid >= idx)
91 return -1;
93 if (pid == 0 && idx == 1)
95 if (!pex_get_status (pex, 1, status))
96 return -1;
98 else
100 int *vector;
102 vector = XNEWVEC (int, idx);
103 if (!pex_get_status (pex, idx, vector))
105 free (vector);
106 return -1;
108 *status = vector[pid];
109 free (vector);
112 /* Assume that we are done after the caller has retrieved the last
113 exit status. The original implementation did not require that
114 the exit statuses be retrieved in order, but this implementation
115 does. */
116 if (pid + 1 == idx)
118 pex_free (pex);
119 pex = NULL;
120 idx = 0;
123 return pid + 1;