4 no strict
'refs'; # because users pass me bareword filehandles
5 our ($VERSION, @ISA, @EXPORT);
10 use Symbol
qw(gensym qualify);
18 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error handling
22 $pid = open3(\*WTRFH, \*RDRFH, \*ERRFH,
23 'some cmd and args', 'optarg', ...);
26 $pid = open3($wtr, $rdr, $err,
27 'some cmd and args', 'optarg', ...);
31 Extremely similar to open2(), open3() spawns the given $cmd and
32 connects RDRFH for reading, WTRFH for writing, and ERRFH for errors. If
33 ERRFH is false, or the same file descriptor as RDRFH, then STDOUT and
34 STDERR of the child are on the same filehandle. The WTRFH will have
37 If WTRFH begins with C<< <& >>, then WTRFH will be closed in the parent, and
38 the child will read from it directly. If RDRFH or ERRFH begins with
39 C<< >& >>, then the child will send output directly to that filehandle.
40 In both cases, there will be a dup(2) instead of a pipe(2) made.
42 If either reader or writer is the null string, this will be replaced
43 by an autogenerated filehandle. If so, you must pass a valid lvalue
44 in the parameter slot so it can be overwritten in the caller, or
45 an exception will be raised.
47 The filehandles may also be integers, in which case they are understood
50 open3() returns the process ID of the child process. It doesn't return on
51 failure: it just raises an exception matching C</^open3:/>. However,
52 C<exec> failures in the child are not detected. You'll have to
53 trap SIGPIPE yourself.
55 open3() does not wait for and reap the child process after it exits.
56 Except for short programs where it's acceptable to let the operating system
57 take care of this, you need to do this yourself. This is normally as
58 simple as calling C<waitpid $pid, 0> when you're done with the process.
59 Failing to do this can result in an accumulation of defunct or "zombie"
60 processes. See L<perlfunc/waitpid> for more information.
62 If you try to read from the child's stdout writer and their stderr
63 writer, you'll have problems with blocking, which means you'll want
64 to use select() or the IO::Select, which means you'd best use
65 sysread() instead of readline() for normal stuff.
67 This is very dangerous, as you may block forever. It assumes it's
68 going to talk to something like B<bc>, both writing to it and reading
69 from it. This is presumably safe because you "know" that commands
70 like B<bc> will read a line at a time and output a line at a time.
71 Programs like B<sort> that read their entire input stream first,
72 however, are quite apt to cause deadlock.
74 The big problem with this approach is that if you don't have control
75 over source code being run in the child process, you can't control
76 what it does with pipe buffering. Thus you can't just open a pipe to
77 C<cat -v> and continually read and write a line from it.
81 The order of arguments differs from that of open2().
85 # &open3: Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>
86 # derived mostly from &open2 by tom christiansen, <tchrist@convex.com>
87 # fixed for 5.001 by Ulrich Kunitz <kunitz@mai-koeln.com>
88 # ported to Win32 by Ron Schmidt, Merrill Lynch almost ended my career
89 # fixed for autovivving FHs, tchrist again
90 # allow fd numbers to be used, by Frank Tobin
92 # $Id: open3.pl,v 1.1 1993/11/23 06:26:15 marc Exp $
94 # usage: $pid = open3('wtr', 'rdr', 'err' 'some cmd and args', 'optarg', ...);
96 # spawn the given $cmd and connect rdr for
97 # reading, wtr for writing, and err for errors.
98 # if err is '', or the same as rdr, then stdout and
99 # stderr of the child are on the same fh. returns pid
100 # of child (or dies on failure).
103 # if wtr begins with '<&', then wtr will be closed in the parent, and
104 # the child will read from it directly. if rdr or err begins with
105 # '>&', then the child will send output directly to that fd. In both
106 # cases, there will be a dup() instead of a pipe() made.
109 # WARNING: this is dangerous, as you may block forever
110 # unless you are very careful.
112 # $wtr is left unbuffered.
115 # rdr or wtr are null
116 # a system call fails
118 our $Me = 'open3 (bug)'; # you should never see this, it's always localized
120 # Fatal.pm needs to be fixed WRT prototypes.
124 defined $pid or croak
"$Me: fork failed: $!";
129 pipe $_[0], $_[1] or croak
"$Me: pipe($_[0], $_[1]) failed: $!";
132 # I tried using a * prototype character for the filehandle but it still
133 # disallows a bearword while compiling under strict subs.
136 open $_[0], $_[1] or croak
"$Me: open($_[0], $_[1]) failed: $!";
140 close $_[0] or croak
"$Me: close($_[0]) failed: $!";
144 return $_[0] =~ /\A=?(\d+)\z/;
148 return $1 if $_[0] =~ /\A=?(\d+)\z/; # deal with fh just being an fd
152 my $do_spawn = $^O
eq 'os2' || $^O
eq 'MSWin32';
156 my($package, $dad_wtr, $dad_rdr, $dad_err, @cmd) = @_;
157 my($dup_wtr, $dup_rdr, $dup_err, $kidpid);
159 # simulate autovivification of filehandles because
160 # it's too ugly to use @_ throughout to make perl do it for us
164 $dad_wtr = $_[1] = gensym
unless defined $dad_wtr && length $dad_wtr;
165 $dad_rdr = $_[2] = gensym
unless defined $dad_rdr && length $dad_rdr;
168 # must strip crud for croak to add back, or looks ugly
169 $@
=~ s/(?<=value attempted) at .*//s;
173 $dad_err ||= $dad_rdr;
175 $dup_wtr = ($dad_wtr =~ s/^[<>]&//);
176 $dup_rdr = ($dad_rdr =~ s/^[<>]&//);
177 $dup_err = ($dad_err =~ s/^[<>]&//);
179 # force unqualified filehandles into caller's package
180 $dad_wtr = qualify
$dad_wtr, $package unless fh_is_fd
($dad_wtr);
181 $dad_rdr = qualify
$dad_rdr, $package unless fh_is_fd
($dad_rdr);
182 $dad_err = qualify
$dad_err, $package unless fh_is_fd
($dad_err);
184 my $kid_rdr = gensym
;
185 my $kid_wtr = gensym
;
186 my $kid_err = gensym
;
188 xpipe
$kid_rdr, $dad_wtr if !$dup_wtr;
189 xpipe
$dad_rdr, $kid_wtr if !$dup_rdr;
190 xpipe
$dad_err, $kid_err if !$dup_err && $dad_err ne $dad_rdr;
192 $kidpid = $do_spawn ?
-1 : xfork
;
193 if ($kidpid == 0) { # Kid
194 # If she wants to dup the kid's stderr onto her stdout I need to
195 # save a copy of her stdout before I put something else there.
196 if ($dad_rdr ne $dad_err && $dup_err
197 && xfileno
($dad_err) == fileno(STDOUT
)) {
199 xopen
($tmp, ">&$dad_err");
204 xopen \
*STDIN
, "<&$dad_wtr" if fileno(STDIN
) != xfileno
($dad_wtr);
207 xopen \
*STDIN
, "<&=" . fileno $kid_rdr;
210 xopen \
*STDOUT
, ">&$dad_rdr" if fileno(STDOUT
) != xfileno
($dad_rdr);
213 xopen \
*STDOUT
, ">&=" . fileno $kid_wtr;
215 if ($dad_rdr ne $dad_err) {
217 # I have to use a fileno here because in this one case
218 # I'm doing a dup but the filehandle might be a reference
219 # (from the special case above).
220 xopen \
*STDERR
, ">&" . xfileno
($dad_err)
221 if fileno(STDERR
) != xfileno
($dad_err);
224 xopen \
*STDERR
, ">&=" . fileno $kid_err;
227 xopen \
*STDERR
, ">&STDOUT" if fileno(STDERR
) != fileno(STDOUT
);
230 exec @cmd # XXX: wrong process to croak from
231 or croak "$Me: exec of
@cmd failed
";
232 } elsif ($do_spawn) {
233 # All the bookkeeping of coincidence between handles is
234 # handled in spawn_with_handles.
238 $kid_rdr = \*{$dad_wtr};
239 push @close, $kid_rdr;
241 push @close, \*{$dad_wtr}, $kid_rdr;
244 $kid_wtr = \*{$dad_rdr};
245 push @close, $kid_wtr;
247 push @close, \*{$dad_rdr}, $kid_wtr;
249 if ($dad_rdr ne $dad_err) {
251 $kid_err = \*{$dad_err};
252 push @close, $kid_err;
254 push @close, \*{$dad_err}, $kid_err;
261 spawn_with_handles( [ { mode => 'r',
266 handle => \*STDOUT },
269 handle => \*STDERR },
275 xclose $kid_rdr if !$dup_wtr;
276 xclose $kid_wtr if !$dup_rdr;
277 xclose $kid_err if !$dup_err && $dad_rdr ne $dad_err;
278 # If the write handle is a dup give it away entirely, close my copy
280 xclose $dad_wtr if $dup_wtr;
282 select((select($dad_wtr), $| = 1)[0]); # unbuffer pipe
289 croak
"open3(@_): not enough arguments";
291 return _open3
'open3', scalar caller, @_
294 sub spawn_with_handles
{
295 my $fds = shift; # Fields: handle, mode, open_as
296 my $close_in_child = shift;
297 my ($fd, $pid, @saved_fh, $saved, %saved, @errs);
300 foreach $fd (@
$fds) {
301 $fd->{tmp_copy
} = IO
::Handle
->new_from_fd($fd->{handle
}, $fd->{mode
});
302 $saved{fileno $fd->{handle
}} = $fd->{tmp_copy
};
304 foreach $fd (@
$fds) {
305 bless $fd->{handle
}, 'IO::Handle'
306 unless eval { $fd->{handle
}->isa('IO::Handle') } ;
307 # If some of handles to redirect-to coincide with handles to
308 # redirect, we need to use saved variants:
309 $fd->{handle
}->fdopen($saved{fileno $fd->{open_as
}} || $fd->{open_as
},
312 unless ($^O
eq 'MSWin32') {
313 # Stderr may be redirected below, so we save the err text:
314 foreach $fd (@
$close_in_child) {
315 fcntl($fd, Fcntl
::F_SETFD
(), 1) or push @errs, "fcntl $fd: $!"
316 unless $saved{fileno $fd}; # Do not close what we redirect!
321 $pid = eval { system 1, @_ }; # 1 == P_NOWAIT
322 push @errs, "IO::Pipe: Can't spawn-NOWAIT: $!" if !$pid || $pid < 0;
325 foreach $fd (@
$fds) {
326 $fd->{handle
}->fdopen($fd->{tmp_copy
}, $fd->{mode
});
327 $fd->{tmp_copy
}->close or croak
"Can't close: $!";
329 croak
join "\n", @errs if @errs;
333 1; # so require is happy