1 /* stdbuf -- setup the standard streams for a command
2 Copyright (C) 2009-2022 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>
28 #include "filenamecat.h"
30 #include "xreadlink.h"
34 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
35 #define PROGRAM_NAME "stdbuf"
36 #define LIB_NAME "libstdbuf.so" /* FIXME: don't hardcode */
38 #define AUTHORS proper_name ("Padraig Brady")
40 static char *program_path
;
49 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
51 {"input", required_argument
, NULL
, 'i'},
52 {"output", required_argument
, NULL
, 'o'},
53 {"error", required_argument
, NULL
, 'e'},
54 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
55 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
59 /* Set size to the value of STR, interpreted as a decimal integer,
60 optionally multiplied by various values.
61 Return -1 on error, 0 on success.
63 This supports dd BLOCK size suffixes.
64 Note we don't support dd's b=512, c=1, w=2 or 21x512MiB formats. */
66 parse_size (char const *str
, size_t *size
)
69 enum strtol_error e
= xstrtoumax (str
, NULL
, 10, &tmp_size
, "EGkKMPTYZ0");
70 if (e
== LONGINT_OK
&& SIZE_MAX
< tmp_size
)
80 errno
= (e
== LONGINT_OVERFLOW
? EOVERFLOW
: errno
);
87 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
91 printf (_("Usage: %s OPTION... COMMAND\n"), program_name
);
93 Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams.\n\
96 emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
99 -i, --input=MODE adjust standard input stream buffering\n\
100 -o, --output=MODE adjust standard output stream buffering\n\
101 -e, --error=MODE adjust standard error stream buffering\n\
103 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
104 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
106 If MODE is 'L' the corresponding stream will be line buffered.\n\
107 This option is invalid with standard input.\n"), stdout
);
109 If MODE is '0' the corresponding stream will be unbuffered.\n\
112 Otherwise MODE is a number which may be followed by one of the following:\n\
113 KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.\n\
114 Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on.\n\
115 In this case the corresponding stream will be fully buffered with the buffer\n\
116 size set to MODE bytes.\n\
119 NOTE: If COMMAND adjusts the buffering of its standard streams ('tee' does\n\
120 for example) then that will override corresponding changes by 'stdbuf'.\n\
121 Also some filters (like 'dd' and 'cat' etc.) don't use streams for I/O,\n\
122 and are thus unaffected by 'stdbuf' settings.\n\
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 $PATH. In the latter case to get the path we can:
132 search getenv("PATH"), readlink("/prof/self/exe"), getenv("_"),
133 dladdr(), pstat_getpathname(), etc. */
136 set_program_path (char const *arg
)
138 if (strchr (arg
, '/')) /* Use absolute or relative paths directly. */
140 program_path
= dir_name (arg
);
144 char *path
= xreadlink ("/proc/self/exe");
146 program_path
= dir_name (path
);
147 else if ((path
= getenv ("PATH")))
150 path
= xstrdup (path
);
151 for (dir
= strtok (path
, ":"); dir
!= NULL
; dir
= strtok (NULL
, ":"))
153 char *candidate
= file_name_concat (dir
, arg
, NULL
);
154 if (access (candidate
, X_OK
) == 0)
156 program_path
= dir_name (candidate
);
168 optc_to_fileno (int c
)
189 set_LD_PRELOAD (void)
193 char const *preload_env
= "DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES";
195 char const *preload_env
= "LD_PRELOAD";
197 char *old_libs
= getenv (preload_env
);
200 /* Note this would auto add the appropriate search path for "libstdbuf.so":
201 gcc stdbuf.c -Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN' -Wl,-rpath,$PKGLIBEXECDIR
202 However we want the lookup done for the exec'd command not stdbuf.
204 Since we don't link against libstdbuf.so add it to PKGLIBEXECDIR
205 rather than to LIBDIR.
207 Note we could add "" as the penultimate item in the following list
208 to enable searching for libstdbuf.so in the default system lib paths.
209 However that would not indicate an error if libstdbuf.so was not found.
210 Also while this could support auto selecting the right arch in a multilib
211 environment, what we really want is to auto select based on the arch of the
212 command being run, rather than that of stdbuf itself. This is currently
213 not supported due to the unusual need for controlling the stdio buffering
214 of programs that are a different architecture to the default on the
215 system (and that of stdbuf itself). */
216 char const *const search_path
[] = {
222 char const *const *path
= search_path
;
229 if (!**path
) /* system default */
231 libstdbuf
= xstrdup (LIB_NAME
);
234 ret
= asprintf (&libstdbuf
, "%s/%s", *path
, LIB_NAME
);
237 if (stat (libstdbuf
, &sb
) == 0) /* file_exists */
243 die (EXIT_CANCELED
, 0, _("failed to find %s"), quote (LIB_NAME
));
246 /* FIXME: Do we need to support libstdbuf.dll, c:, '\' separators etc? */
249 ret
= asprintf (&LD_PRELOAD
, "%s=%s:%s", preload_env
, old_libs
, libstdbuf
);
251 ret
= asprintf (&LD_PRELOAD
, "%s=%s", preload_env
, libstdbuf
);
258 ret
= putenv (LD_PRELOAD
);
261 ret
= setenv ("DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE", "y", 1);
266 die (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
,
267 _("failed to update the environment with %s"),
272 /* Populate environ with _STDBUF_I=$MODE _STDBUF_O=$MODE _STDBUF_E=$MODE.
273 Return TRUE if any environment variables set. */
276 set_libstdbuf_options (void)
278 bool env_set
= false;
280 for (size_t i
= 0; i
< ARRAY_CARDINALITY (stdbuf
); i
++)
282 if (stdbuf
[i
].optarg
)
287 if (*stdbuf
[i
].optarg
== 'L')
288 ret
= asprintf (&var
, "%s%c=L", "_STDBUF_",
289 toupper (stdbuf
[i
].optc
));
291 ret
= asprintf (&var
, "%s%c=%" PRIuMAX
, "_STDBUF_",
292 toupper (stdbuf
[i
].optc
),
293 (uintmax_t) stdbuf
[i
].size
);
297 if (putenv (var
) != 0)
299 die (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
,
300 _("failed to update the environment with %s"),
312 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
316 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
317 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
318 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
319 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
320 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
322 initialize_exit_failure (EXIT_CANCELED
);
323 atexit (close_stdout
);
325 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "+i:o:e:", longopts
, NULL
)) != -1)
331 /* Old McDonald had a farm ei... */
335 opt_fileno
= optc_to_fileno (c
);
336 assert (0 <= opt_fileno
&& opt_fileno
< ARRAY_CARDINALITY (stdbuf
));
337 stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].optc
= c
;
338 while (c_isspace (*optarg
))
340 stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].optarg
= optarg
;
341 if (c
== 'i' && *optarg
== 'L')
343 /* -oL will be by far the most common use of this utility,
344 but one could easily think -iL might have the same affect,
345 so disallow it as it could be confusing. */
346 error (0, 0, _("line buffering stdin is meaningless"));
347 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
350 if (!STREQ (optarg
, "L")
351 && parse_size (optarg
, &stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].size
) == -1)
352 die (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
, _("invalid mode %s"), quote (optarg
));
356 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
358 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
361 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
368 /* must specify at least 1 command. */
371 error (0, 0, _("missing operand"));
372 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
375 if (! set_libstdbuf_options ())
377 error (0, 0, _("you must specify a buffering mode option"));
378 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
381 /* Try to preload libstdbuf first from the same path as
382 stdbuf is running from. */
383 set_program_path (program_name
);
385 program_path
= xstrdup (PKGLIBDIR
); /* Need to init to non-NULL. */
389 execvp (*argv
, argv
);
391 int exit_status
= errno
== ENOENT
? EXIT_ENOENT
: EXIT_CANNOT_INVOKE
;
392 error (0, errno
, _("failed to run command %s"), quote (argv
[0]));