1 /* stdbuf -- setup the standard streams for a command
2 Copyright (C) 2009-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Written by Pádraig Brady. */
22 #include <sys/types.h>
26 #include "filenamecat.h"
28 #include "xreadlink.h"
32 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
33 #define PROGRAM_NAME "stdbuf"
34 #define LIB_NAME "libstdbuf.so" /* FIXME: don't hardcode */
36 #define AUTHORS proper_name_lite ("Padraig Brady", "P\303\241draig Brady")
38 static char *program_path
;
47 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
49 {"input", required_argument
, nullptr, 'i'},
50 {"output", required_argument
, nullptr, 'o'},
51 {"error", required_argument
, nullptr, 'e'},
52 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
53 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
54 {nullptr, 0, nullptr, 0}
57 /* Set size to the value of STR, interpreted as a decimal integer,
58 optionally multiplied by various values.
59 Return -1 on error, 0 on success.
61 This supports dd BLOCK size suffixes.
62 Note we don't support dd's b=512, c=1, w=2 or 21x512MiB formats. */
64 parse_size (char const *str
, size_t *size
)
67 enum strtol_error e
= xstrtoumax (str
, nullptr, 10,
68 &tmp_size
, "EGkKMPQRTYZ0");
69 if (e
== LONGINT_OK
&& SIZE_MAX
< tmp_size
)
79 errno
= (e
== LONGINT_OVERFLOW
? EOVERFLOW
: errno
);
86 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
90 printf (_("Usage: %s OPTION... COMMAND\n"), program_name
);
92 Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams.\n\
95 emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
98 -i, --input=MODE adjust standard input stream buffering\n\
99 -o, --output=MODE adjust standard output stream buffering\n\
100 -e, --error=MODE adjust standard error stream buffering\n\
102 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
103 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
105 If MODE is 'L' the corresponding stream will be line buffered.\n\
106 This option is invalid with standard input.\n"), stdout
);
108 If MODE is '0' the corresponding stream will be unbuffered.\n\
111 Otherwise MODE is a number which may be followed by one of the following:\n\
112 KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G,T,P,E,Z,Y,R,Q.\n\
113 Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on.\n\
114 In this case the corresponding stream will be fully buffered with the buffer\n\
115 size set to MODE bytes.\n\
118 NOTE: If COMMAND adjusts the buffering of its standard streams ('tee' does\n\
119 for example) then that will override corresponding changes by 'stdbuf'.\n\
120 Also some filters (like 'dd' and 'cat' etc.) don't use streams for I/O,\n\
121 and are thus unaffected by 'stdbuf' settings.\n\
123 emit_exec_status (PROGRAM_NAME
);
124 emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME
);
129 /* argv[0] can be anything really, but generally it contains
130 the path to the executable or just a name if it was executed
131 using $PATH. In the latter case to get the path we can:
132 search getenv("PATH"), readlink("/prof/self/exe"), getenv("_"),
133 dladdr(), pstat_getpathname(), etc. */
136 set_program_path (char const *arg
)
138 if (strchr (arg
, '/')) /* Use absolute or relative paths directly. */
140 program_path
= dir_name (arg
);
144 char *path
= xreadlink ("/proc/self/exe");
146 program_path
= dir_name (path
);
147 else if ((path
= getenv ("PATH")))
150 path
= xstrdup (path
);
151 for (dir
= strtok (path
, ":"); dir
!= nullptr;
152 dir
= strtok (nullptr, ":"))
154 char *candidate
= file_name_concat (dir
, arg
, nullptr);
155 if (access (candidate
, X_OK
) == 0)
157 program_path
= dir_name (candidate
);
169 optc_to_fileno (int c
)
190 set_LD_PRELOAD (void)
194 char const *preload_env
= "DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES";
196 char const *preload_env
= "LD_PRELOAD";
198 char *old_libs
= getenv (preload_env
);
201 /* Note this would auto add the appropriate search path for "libstdbuf.so":
202 gcc stdbuf.c -Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN' -Wl,-rpath,$PKGLIBEXECDIR
203 However we want the lookup done for the exec'd command not stdbuf.
205 Since we don't link against libstdbuf.so add it to PKGLIBEXECDIR
206 rather than to LIBDIR.
208 Note we could add "" as the penultimate item in the following list
209 to enable searching for libstdbuf.so in the default system lib paths.
210 However that would not indicate an error if libstdbuf.so was not found.
211 Also while this could support auto selecting the right arch in a multilib
212 environment, what we really want is to auto select based on the arch of the
213 command being run, rather than that of stdbuf itself. This is currently
214 not supported due to the unusual need for controlling the stdio buffering
215 of programs that are a different architecture to the default on the
216 system (and that of stdbuf itself). */
217 char const *const search_path
[] = {
223 char const *const *path
= search_path
;
230 if (!**path
) /* system default */
232 libstdbuf
= xstrdup (LIB_NAME
);
235 ret
= asprintf (&libstdbuf
, "%s/%s", *path
, LIB_NAME
);
238 if (stat (libstdbuf
, &sb
) == 0) /* file_exists */
244 error (EXIT_CANCELED
, 0, _("failed to find %s"), quote (LIB_NAME
));
247 /* FIXME: Do we need to support libstdbuf.dll, c:, '\' separators etc? */
250 ret
= asprintf (&LD_PRELOAD
, "%s=%s:%s", preload_env
, old_libs
, libstdbuf
);
252 ret
= asprintf (&LD_PRELOAD
, "%s=%s", preload_env
, libstdbuf
);
259 ret
= putenv (LD_PRELOAD
);
262 ret
= setenv ("DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE", "y", 1);
266 error (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
,
267 _("failed to update the environment with %s"),
271 /* Populate environ with _STDBUF_I=$MODE _STDBUF_O=$MODE _STDBUF_E=$MODE.
272 Return TRUE if any environment variables set. */
275 set_libstdbuf_options (void)
277 bool env_set
= false;
279 for (size_t i
= 0; i
< ARRAY_CARDINALITY (stdbuf
); i
++)
281 if (stdbuf
[i
].optarg
)
286 if (*stdbuf
[i
].optarg
== 'L')
287 ret
= asprintf (&var
, "%s%c=L", "_STDBUF_",
288 c_toupper (stdbuf
[i
].optc
));
290 ret
= asprintf (&var
, "%s%c=%zu", "_STDBUF_",
291 c_toupper (stdbuf
[i
].optc
),
296 if (putenv (var
) != 0)
297 error (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
,
298 _("failed to update the environment with %s"),
309 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
313 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
314 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
315 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
316 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
317 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
319 initialize_exit_failure (EXIT_CANCELED
);
320 atexit (close_stdout
);
322 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "+i:o:e:", longopts
, nullptr)) != -1)
328 /* Old McDonald had a farm ei... */
332 opt_fileno
= optc_to_fileno (c
);
333 affirm (0 <= opt_fileno
&& opt_fileno
< ARRAY_CARDINALITY (stdbuf
));
334 stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].optc
= c
;
335 while (c_isspace (*optarg
))
337 stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].optarg
= optarg
;
338 if (c
== 'i' && *optarg
== 'L')
340 /* -oL will be by far the most common use of this utility,
341 but one could easily think -iL might have the same affect,
342 so disallow it as it could be confusing. */
343 error (0, 0, _("line buffering stdin is meaningless"));
344 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
347 if (!STREQ (optarg
, "L")
348 && parse_size (optarg
, &stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].size
) == -1)
349 error (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
, _("invalid mode %s"), quote (optarg
));
353 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
355 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
358 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
365 /* must specify at least 1 command. */
368 error (0, 0, _("missing operand"));
369 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
372 if (! set_libstdbuf_options ())
374 error (0, 0, _("you must specify a buffering mode option"));
375 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
378 /* Try to preload libstdbuf first from the same path as
379 stdbuf is running from. */
380 set_program_path (program_name
);
382 program_path
= xstrdup (PKGLIBDIR
); /* Need to init to non-null. */
386 execvp (*argv
, argv
);
388 int exit_status
= errno
== ENOENT
? EXIT_ENOENT
: EXIT_CANNOT_INVOKE
;
389 error (0, errno
, _("failed to run command %s"), quote (argv
[0]));