Fix permissions handling (CVE-2010-0825).
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1 /* Definitions for asynchronous process control in GNU Emacs.
2 Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
3 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
7 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
20 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
21 #include <sys/types.h>
22 #endif
23 #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
24 #include <unistd.h>
25 #endif
27 /* This structure records information about a subprocess
28 or network connection.
30 Every field in this structure except for the first two
31 must be a Lisp_Object, for GC's sake. */
33 struct Lisp_Process
35 EMACS_UINT size;
36 struct Lisp_Vector *v_next;
37 /* Name of subprocess terminal. */
38 Lisp_Object tty_name;
39 /* Name of this process */
40 Lisp_Object name;
41 /* List of command arguments that this process was run with.
42 Is set to t for a stopped network process; nil otherwise. */
43 Lisp_Object command;
44 /* (funcall FILTER PROC STRING) (if FILTER is non-nil)
45 to dispose of a bunch of chars from the process all at once */
46 Lisp_Object filter;
47 /* (funcall SENTINEL PROCESS) when process state changes */
48 Lisp_Object sentinel;
49 /* (funcall LOG SERVER CLIENT MESSAGE) when a server process
50 accepts a connection from a client. */
51 Lisp_Object log;
52 /* Buffer that output is going to */
53 Lisp_Object buffer;
54 /* t if this is a real child process. For a network or serial
55 connection, it is a plist based on the arguments to
56 make-network-process or make-serial-process. */
57 Lisp_Object childp;
58 /* Plist for programs to keep per-process state information, parameters, etc. */
59 Lisp_Object plist;
60 /* Symbol indicating the type of process: real, network, serial */
61 Lisp_Object type;
62 /* Marker set to end of last buffer-inserted output from this process */
63 Lisp_Object mark;
64 /* Symbol indicating status of process.
65 This may be a symbol: run, open, or closed.
66 Or it may be a list, whose car is stop, exit or signal
67 and whose cdr is a pair (EXIT_CODE . COREDUMP_FLAG)
68 or (SIGNAL_NUMBER . COREDUMP_FLAG). */
69 Lisp_Object status;
70 /* Coding-system for decoding the input from this process. */
71 Lisp_Object decode_coding_system;
72 /* Working buffer for decoding. */
73 Lisp_Object decoding_buf;
74 /* Coding-system for encoding the output to this process. */
75 Lisp_Object encode_coding_system;
76 /* Working buffer for encoding. */
77 Lisp_Object encoding_buf;
79 /* After this point, there are no Lisp_Objects any more. */
80 /* alloc.c assumes that `pid' is the first such non-Lisp slot. */
82 /* Number of this process.
83 allocate_process assumes this is the first non-Lisp_Object field.
84 A value 0 is used for pseudo-processes such as network or serial
85 connections. */
86 pid_t pid;
87 /* Descriptor by which we read from this process */
88 int infd;
89 /* Descriptor by which we write to this process */
90 int outfd;
91 /* Event-count of last event in which this process changed status. */
92 int tick;
93 /* Event-count of last such event reported. */
94 int update_tick;
95 /* Size of carryover in decoding. */
96 int decoding_carryover;
97 /* Hysteresis to try to read process output in larger blocks.
98 On some systems, e.g. GNU/Linux, Emacs is seen as
99 an interactive app also when reading process output, meaning
100 that process output can be read in as little as 1 byte at a
101 time. Value is micro-seconds to delay reading output from
102 this process. Range is 0 .. 50000. */
103 int read_output_delay;
104 /* Should we delay reading output from this process.
105 Initialized from `Vprocess_adaptive_read_buffering'.
106 0 = nil, 1 = t, 2 = other. */
107 unsigned int adaptive_read_buffering : 2;
108 /* Skip reading this process on next read. */
109 unsigned int read_output_skip : 1;
110 /* Non-nil means kill silently if Emacs is exited.
111 This is the inverse of the `query-on-exit' flag. */
112 unsigned int kill_without_query : 1;
113 /* Non-nil if communicating through a pty. */
114 unsigned int pty_flag : 1;
115 /* Flag to set coding-system of the process buffer from the
116 coding_system used to decode process output. */
117 unsigned int inherit_coding_system_flag : 1;
118 /* Record the process status in the raw form in which it comes from `wait'.
119 This is to avoid consing in a signal handler. The `raw_status_new'
120 flag indicates that `raw_status' contains a new status that still
121 needs to be synced to `status'. */
122 unsigned int raw_status_new : 1;
123 int raw_status;
126 /* Every field in the preceding structure except for the first two
127 must be a Lisp_Object, for GC's sake. */
129 #define ChannelMask(n) (1<<(n))
131 /* Indexed by descriptor, gives the process (if any) for that descriptor. */
132 extern Lisp_Object chan_process[];
134 /* Alist of elements (NAME . PROCESS). */
135 extern Lisp_Object Vprocess_alist;
137 /* True if we are about to fork off a synchronous process or if we
138 are waiting for it. */
139 extern int synch_process_alive;
141 /* Communicate exit status of sync process to from sigchld_handler
142 to Fcall_process. */
144 /* Nonzero => this is a string explaining death of synchronous subprocess. */
145 extern char *synch_process_death;
147 /* Nonzero => this is the signal number that terminated the subprocess. */
148 extern int synch_process_termsig;
150 /* If synch_process_death is zero,
151 this is exit code of synchronous subprocess. */
152 extern int synch_process_retcode;
154 /* The name of the file open to get a null file, or a data sink.
155 MS-DOS, and OS/2 redefine this. */
156 #ifndef NULL_DEVICE
157 #define NULL_DEVICE "/dev/null"
158 #endif
160 /* Nonzero means don't run process sentinels. This is used
161 when exiting. */
162 extern int inhibit_sentinels;
164 extern Lisp_Object Qeuid, Qegid, Qcomm, Qstate, Qppid, Qpgrp, Qsess, Qttname;
165 extern Lisp_Object Qminflt, Qmajflt, Qcminflt, Qcmajflt, Qutime, Qstime;
166 extern Lisp_Object Qcutime, Qpri, Qnice, Qthcount, Qstart, Qvsize, Qrss, Qargs;
167 extern Lisp_Object Quser, Qgroup, Qetime, Qpcpu, Qpmem, Qtpgid, Qcstime;
168 extern Lisp_Object Qtime, Qctime;
170 extern Lisp_Object list_system_processes (void);
171 extern Lisp_Object system_process_attributes (Lisp_Object);
173 /* arch-tag: dffedfc4-d7bc-4b58-a26f-c16155449c72
174 (do not change this comment) */