2006-03-05 Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
[glibc/history.git] / sunrpc / openchild.c
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1 /*
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19 * OR ANY PART THEREOF.
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31 * Copyright (c) 1988 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
35 * Open two pipes to a child process, one for reading, one for writing.
36 * The pipes are accessed by FILE pointers. This is NOT a public
37 * interface, but for internal use only!
39 #include <stdio.h>
40 #include <stdlib.h>
41 #include <unistd.h>
42 #include <string.h>
43 #include <rpc/rpc.h>
44 #include <rpc/clnt.h>
46 #ifdef USE_IN_LIBIO
47 # include <libio/iolibio.h>
48 # define fflush(s) INTUSE(_IO_fflush) (s)
49 # define __fdopen(fd,m) INTUSE(_IO_fdopen) (fd,m)
50 #endif
53 * returns pid, or -1 for failure
55 int
56 _openchild (const char *command, FILE ** fto, FILE ** ffrom)
58 int i;
59 int pid;
60 int pdto[2];
61 int pdfrom[2];
63 if (__pipe (pdto) < 0)
64 goto error1;
65 if (__pipe (pdfrom) < 0)
66 goto error2;
67 switch (pid = __fork ())
69 case -1:
70 goto error3;
72 case 0:
74 * child: read from pdto[0], write into pdfrom[1]
76 __close (0);
77 __dup (pdto[0]);
78 __close (1);
79 __dup (pdfrom[1]);
80 fflush (stderr);
81 for (i = _rpc_dtablesize () - 1; i >= 3; i--)
82 __close (i);
83 fflush (stderr);
84 execlp (command, command, NULL);
85 perror ("exec");
86 _exit (~0);
88 default:
90 * parent: write into pdto[1], read from pdfrom[0]
92 *fto = __fdopen (pdto[1], "w");
93 __close (pdto[0]);
94 *ffrom = __fdopen (pdfrom[0], "r");
95 __close (pdfrom[1]);
96 break;
98 return pid;
101 * error cleanup and return
103 error3:
104 __close (pdfrom[0]);
105 __close (pdfrom[1]);
106 error2:
107 __close (pdto[0]);
108 __close (pdto[1]);
109 error1:
110 return -1;