1 /* stdbuf -- setup the standard streams for a command
2 Copyright (C) 2009-2023 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
, "EGkKMPQRTYZ0");
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,R,Q.\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_exec_status (PROGRAM_NAME
);
125 emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME
);
130 /* argv[0] can be anything really, but generally it contains
131 the path to the executable or just a name if it was executed
132 using $PATH. In the latter case to get the path we can:
133 search getenv("PATH"), readlink("/prof/self/exe"), getenv("_"),
134 dladdr(), pstat_getpathname(), etc. */
137 set_program_path (char const *arg
)
139 if (strchr (arg
, '/')) /* Use absolute or relative paths directly. */
141 program_path
= dir_name (arg
);
145 char *path
= xreadlink ("/proc/self/exe");
147 program_path
= dir_name (path
);
148 else if ((path
= getenv ("PATH")))
151 path
= xstrdup (path
);
152 for (dir
= strtok (path
, ":"); dir
!= NULL
; dir
= strtok (NULL
, ":"))
154 char *candidate
= file_name_concat (dir
, arg
, NULL
);
155 if (access (candidate
, X_OK
) == 0)
157 program_path
= dir_name (candidate
);
169 optc_to_fileno (int c
)
190 set_LD_PRELOAD (void)
194 char const *preload_env
= "DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES";
196 char const *preload_env
= "LD_PRELOAD";
198 char *old_libs
= getenv (preload_env
);
201 /* Note this would auto add the appropriate search path for "libstdbuf.so":
202 gcc stdbuf.c -Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN' -Wl,-rpath,$PKGLIBEXECDIR
203 However we want the lookup done for the exec'd command not stdbuf.
205 Since we don't link against libstdbuf.so add it to PKGLIBEXECDIR
206 rather than to LIBDIR.
208 Note we could add "" as the penultimate item in the following list
209 to enable searching for libstdbuf.so in the default system lib paths.
210 However that would not indicate an error if libstdbuf.so was not found.
211 Also while this could support auto selecting the right arch in a multilib
212 environment, what we really want is to auto select based on the arch of the
213 command being run, rather than that of stdbuf itself. This is currently
214 not supported due to the unusual need for controlling the stdio buffering
215 of programs that are a different architecture to the default on the
216 system (and that of stdbuf itself). */
217 char const *const search_path
[] = {
223 char const *const *path
= search_path
;
230 if (!**path
) /* system default */
232 libstdbuf
= xstrdup (LIB_NAME
);
235 ret
= asprintf (&libstdbuf
, "%s/%s", *path
, LIB_NAME
);
238 if (stat (libstdbuf
, &sb
) == 0) /* file_exists */
244 die (EXIT_CANCELED
, 0, _("failed to find %s"), quote (LIB_NAME
));
247 /* FIXME: Do we need to support libstdbuf.dll, c:, '\' separators etc? */
250 ret
= asprintf (&LD_PRELOAD
, "%s=%s:%s", preload_env
, old_libs
, libstdbuf
);
252 ret
= asprintf (&LD_PRELOAD
, "%s=%s", preload_env
, libstdbuf
);
259 ret
= putenv (LD_PRELOAD
);
262 ret
= setenv ("DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE", "y", 1);
267 die (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
,
268 _("failed to update the environment with %s"),
273 /* Populate environ with _STDBUF_I=$MODE _STDBUF_O=$MODE _STDBUF_E=$MODE.
274 Return TRUE if any environment variables set. */
277 set_libstdbuf_options (void)
279 bool env_set
= false;
281 for (size_t i
= 0; i
< ARRAY_CARDINALITY (stdbuf
); i
++)
283 if (stdbuf
[i
].optarg
)
288 if (*stdbuf
[i
].optarg
== 'L')
289 ret
= asprintf (&var
, "%s%c=L", "_STDBUF_",
290 toupper (stdbuf
[i
].optc
));
292 ret
= asprintf (&var
, "%s%c=%" PRIuMAX
, "_STDBUF_",
293 toupper (stdbuf
[i
].optc
),
294 (uintmax_t) stdbuf
[i
].size
);
298 if (putenv (var
) != 0)
300 die (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
,
301 _("failed to update the environment with %s"),
313 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
317 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
318 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
319 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
320 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
321 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
323 initialize_exit_failure (EXIT_CANCELED
);
324 atexit (close_stdout
);
326 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "+i:o:e:", longopts
, NULL
)) != -1)
332 /* Old McDonald had a farm ei... */
336 opt_fileno
= optc_to_fileno (c
);
337 assert (0 <= opt_fileno
&& opt_fileno
< ARRAY_CARDINALITY (stdbuf
));
338 stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].optc
= c
;
339 while (c_isspace (*optarg
))
341 stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].optarg
= optarg
;
342 if (c
== 'i' && *optarg
== 'L')
344 /* -oL will be by far the most common use of this utility,
345 but one could easily think -iL might have the same affect,
346 so disallow it as it could be confusing. */
347 error (0, 0, _("line buffering stdin is meaningless"));
348 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
351 if (!STREQ (optarg
, "L")
352 && parse_size (optarg
, &stdbuf
[opt_fileno
].size
) == -1)
353 die (EXIT_CANCELED
, errno
, _("invalid mode %s"), quote (optarg
));
357 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
359 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
362 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
369 /* must specify at least 1 command. */
372 error (0, 0, _("missing operand"));
373 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
376 if (! set_libstdbuf_options ())
378 error (0, 0, _("you must specify a buffering mode option"));
379 usage (EXIT_CANCELED
);
382 /* Try to preload libstdbuf first from the same path as
383 stdbuf is running from. */
384 set_program_path (program_name
);
386 program_path
= xstrdup (PKGLIBDIR
); /* Need to init to non-NULL. */
390 execvp (*argv
, argv
);
392 int exit_status
= errno
== ENOENT
? EXIT_ENOENT
: EXIT_CANNOT_INVOKE
;
393 error (0, errno
, _("failed to run command %s"), quote (argv
[0]));