1 /* stdbuf -- setup the standard streams for a command
2 Copyright (C) 2009-2013 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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Written by Pádraig Brady. */
22 #include <sys/types.h>
27 #include "filenamecat.h"
29 #include "xreadlink.h"
33 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
34 #define PROGRAM_NAME "stdbuf"
35 #define LIB_NAME "libstdbuf.so" /* FIXME: don't hardcode */
37 #define AUTHORS proper_name_utf8 ("Padraig Brady", "P\303\241draig Brady")
39 static char *program_path
;
48 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
50 {"input", required_argument
, NULL
, 'i'},
51 {"output", required_argument
, NULL
, 'o'},
52 {"error", required_argument
, NULL
, 'e'},
53 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
54 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
58 /* Set size to the value of STR, interpreted as a decimal integer,
59 optionally multiplied by various values.
60 Return -1 on error, 0 on success.
62 This supports dd BLOCK size suffixes.
63 Note we don't support dd's b=512, c=1, w=2 or 21x512MiB formats. */
65 parse_size (char const *str
, size_t *size
)
68 enum strtol_error e
= xstrtoumax (str
, NULL
, 10, &tmp_size
, "EGkKMPTYZ0");
69 if (e
== LONGINT_OK
&& tmp_size
> SIZE_MAX
)
79 errno
= (e
== LONGINT_OVERFLOW
? EOVERFLOW
: 0);
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.\n\
113 In this case the corresponding stream will be fully buffered with the buffer\n\
114 size set to MODE bytes.\n\
117 NOTE: If COMMAND adjusts the buffering of its standard streams ('tee' does\n\
118 for e.g.) then that will override corresponding settings changed by 'stdbuf'.\n\
119 Also some filters (like 'dd' and 'cat' etc.) don't use streams for I/O,\n\
120 and are thus unaffected by 'stdbuf' settings.\n\
122 emit_ancillary_info ();
127 /* argv[0] can be anything really, but generally it contains
128 the path to the executable or just a name if it was executed
129 using $PATH. In the latter case to get the path we can:
130 search getenv("PATH"), readlink("/prof/self/exe"), getenv("_"),
131 dladdr(), pstat_getpathname(), etc. */
134 set_program_path (const char *arg
)
136 if (strchr (arg
, '/')) /* Use absolute or relative paths directly. */
138 program_path
= dir_name (arg
);
142 char *path
= xreadlink ("/proc/self/exe");
144 program_path
= dir_name (path
);
145 else if ((path
= getenv ("PATH")))
148 path
= xstrdup (path
);
149 for (dir
= strtok (path
, ":"); dir
!= NULL
; dir
= strtok (NULL
, ":"))
151 char *candidate
= file_name_concat (dir
, arg
, NULL
);
152 if (access (candidate
, X_OK
) == 0)
154 program_path
= dir_name (candidate
);
166 optc_to_fileno (int c
)
187 set_LD_PRELOAD (void)
190 char *old_libs
= getenv ("LD_PRELOAD");
193 /* Note this would auto add the appropriate search path for "libstdbuf.so":
194 gcc stdbuf.c -Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN' -Wl,-rpath,$PKGLIBEXECDIR
195 However we want the lookup done for the exec'd command not stdbuf.
197 Since we don't link against libstdbuf.so add it to PKGLIBEXECDIR
198 rather than to LIBDIR. */
199 char const *const search_path
[] = {
205 char const *const *path
= search_path
;
212 if (!**path
) /* system default */
214 libstdbuf
= xstrdup (LIB_NAME
);
217 ret
= asprintf (&libstdbuf
, "%s/%s", *path
, LIB_NAME
);
220 if (stat (libstdbuf
, &sb
) == 0) /* file_exists */
226 error (EXIT_CANCELED
, 0, _("failed to find %s"), quote (LIB_NAME
));
229 /* FIXME: Do we need to support libstdbuf.dll, c:, '\' separators etc? */
232 ret
= asprintf (&LD_PRELOAD
, "LD_PRELOAD=%s:%s", old_libs
, libstdbuf
);
234 ret
= asprintf (&LD_PRELOAD
, "LD_PRELOAD=%s", libstdbuf
);
241 ret
= putenv (LD_PRELOAD
);
245 error (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
,
246 _("failed to update the environment with %s"),
251 /* Populate environ with _STDBUF_I=$MODE _STDBUF_O=$MODE _STDBUF_E=$MODE */
254 set_libstdbuf_options (void)
258 for (i
= 0; i
< ARRAY_CARDINALITY (stdbuf
); i
++)
260 if (stdbuf
[i
].optarg
)
265 if (*stdbuf
[i
].optarg
== 'L')
266 ret
= asprintf (&var
, "%s%c=L", "_STDBUF_",
267 toupper (stdbuf
[i
].optc
));
269 ret
= asprintf (&var
, "%s%c=%" PRIuMAX
, "_STDBUF_",
270 toupper (stdbuf
[i
].optc
),
271 (uintmax_t) stdbuf
[i
].size
);
275 if (putenv (var
) != 0)
277 error (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
,
278 _("failed to update the environment with %s"),
286 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
290 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
291 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
292 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
293 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
294 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
296 initialize_exit_failure (EXIT_CANCELED
);
297 atexit (close_stdout
);
299 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "+i:o:e:", longopts
, NULL
)) != -1)
305 /* Old McDonald had a farm ei... */
309 opt_fileno
= optc_to_fileno (c
);
310 assert (0 <= opt_fileno
&& opt_fileno
< ARRAY_CARDINALITY (stdbuf
));
311 stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].optc
= c
;
312 while (c_isspace (*optarg
))
314 stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].optarg
= optarg
;
315 if (c
== 'i' && *optarg
== 'L')
317 /* -oL will be by far the most common use of this utility,
318 but one could easily think -iL might have the same affect,
319 so disallow it as it could be confusing. */
320 error (0, 0, _("line buffering stdin is meaningless"));
321 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
324 if (!STREQ (optarg
, "L")
325 && parse_size (optarg
, &stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].size
) == -1)
326 error (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
, _("invalid mode %s"), quote (optarg
));
330 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
332 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
335 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
342 /* must specify at least 1 command. */
345 error (0, 0, _("missing operand"));
346 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
349 /* FIXME: Should we mandate at least one option? */
351 set_libstdbuf_options ();
353 /* Try to preload libstdbuf first from the same path as
354 stdbuf is running from. */
355 set_program_path (program_name
);
357 program_path
= xstrdup (PKGLIBDIR
); /* Need to init to non NULL. */
361 execvp (*argv
, argv
);
364 int exit_status
= (errno
== ENOENT
? EXIT_ENOENT
: EXIT_CANNOT_INVOKE
);
365 error (0, errno
, _("failed to run command %s"), quote (argv
[0]));