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1 /* Synchronous subprocess invocation for GNU Emacs.
2 Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
6 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
9 any later version.
11 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
18 the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
21 #include <signal.h>
22 #include <errno.h>
24 #include "config.h"
26 /* Define SIGCHLD as an alias for SIGCLD. */
28 #if !defined (SIGCHLD) && defined (SIGCLD)
29 #define SIGCHLD SIGCLD
30 #endif /* SIGCLD */
32 #include <sys/types.h>
33 #define PRIO_PROCESS 0
34 #include <sys/file.h>
35 #ifdef USG5
36 #include <fcntl.h>
37 #endif
39 #ifndef O_RDONLY
40 #define O_RDONLY 0
41 #endif
43 #ifndef O_WRONLY
44 #define O_WRONLY 1
45 #endif
47 #include "lisp.h"
48 #include "commands.h"
49 #include "buffer.h"
50 #include "paths.h"
51 #include "process.h"
53 #ifdef VMS
54 extern noshare char **environ;
55 #else
56 extern char **environ;
57 #endif
59 #define max(a, b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))
61 Lisp_Object Vexec_path, Vexec_directory, Vdata_directory;
63 Lisp_Object Vshell_file_name;
65 Lisp_Object Vprocess_environment;
67 /* True iff we are about to fork off a synchronous process or if we
68 are waiting for it. */
69 int synch_process_alive;
71 /* Nonzero => this is a string explaining death of synchronous subprocess. */
72 char *synch_process_death;
74 /* If synch_process_death is zero,
75 this is exit code of synchronous subprocess. */
76 int synch_process_retcode;
78 #ifndef VMS /* VMS version is in vmsproc.c. */
80 Lisp_Object
81 call_process_cleanup (fdpid)
82 Lisp_Object fdpid;
84 register Lisp_Object fd, pid;
85 fd = Fcar (fdpid);
86 pid = Fcdr (fdpid);
87 close (XFASTINT (fd));
88 kill (XFASTINT (pid), SIGKILL);
89 synch_process_alive = 0;
90 return Qnil;
93 DEFUN ("call-process", Fcall_process, Scall_process, 1, MANY, 0,
94 "Call PROGRAM synchronously in separate process.\n\
95 The program's input comes from file INFILE (nil means `/dev/null').\n\
96 Insert output in BUFFER before point; t means current buffer;\n\
97 nil for BUFFER means discard it; 0 means discard and don't wait.\n\
98 Fourth arg DISPLAY non-nil means redisplay buffer as output is inserted.\n\
99 Remaining arguments are strings passed as command arguments to PROGRAM.\n\
100 If BUFFER is nil or 0, returns immediately with value nil.\n\
101 Otherwise waits for PROGRAM to terminate\n\
102 and returns a numeric exit status or a signal description string.\n\
103 If you quit, the process is killed with SIGKILL.")
104 (nargs, args)
105 int nargs;
106 register Lisp_Object *args;
108 Lisp_Object display, infile, buffer, path, current_dir;
109 int fd[2];
110 int filefd;
111 register int pid;
112 char buf[1024];
113 int count = specpdl_ptr - specpdl;
114 register unsigned char **new_argv
115 = (unsigned char **) alloca ((max (2, nargs - 2)) * sizeof (char *));
116 struct buffer *old = current_buffer;
117 #if 0
118 int mask;
119 #endif
120 CHECK_STRING (args[0], 0);
122 if (nargs >= 2 && ! NILP (args[1]))
124 infile = Fexpand_file_name (args[1], current_buffer->directory);
125 CHECK_STRING (infile, 1);
127 else
128 #ifdef VMS
129 infile = build_string ("NLA0:");
130 #else
131 infile = build_string ("/dev/null");
132 #endif /* not VMS */
134 if (nargs >= 3)
136 register Lisp_Object tem;
138 buffer = tem = args[2];
139 if (!(EQ (tem, Qnil)
140 || EQ (tem, Qt)
141 || XFASTINT (tem) == 0))
143 buffer = Fget_buffer (tem);
144 CHECK_BUFFER (buffer, 2);
147 else
148 buffer = Qnil;
150 display = nargs >= 4 ? args[3] : Qnil;
153 register int i;
154 for (i = 4; i < nargs; i++)
156 CHECK_STRING (args[i], i);
157 new_argv[i - 3] = XSTRING (args[i])->data;
159 /* Program name is first command arg */
160 new_argv[0] = XSTRING (args[0])->data;
161 new_argv[i - 3] = 0;
164 filefd = open (XSTRING (infile)->data, O_RDONLY, 0);
165 if (filefd < 0)
167 report_file_error ("Opening process input file", Fcons (infile, Qnil));
169 /* Search for program; barf if not found. */
170 openp (Vexec_path, args[0], "", &path, 1);
171 if (NILP (path))
173 close (filefd);
174 report_file_error ("Searching for program", Fcons (args[0], Qnil));
176 new_argv[0] = XSTRING (path)->data;
178 if (XTYPE (buffer) == Lisp_Int)
179 fd[1] = open ("/dev/null", O_WRONLY), fd[0] = -1;
180 else
182 pipe (fd);
183 #if 0
184 /* Replaced by close_process_descs */
185 set_exclusive_use (fd[0]);
186 #endif
189 /* Make sure that the child will be able to chdir to the current
190 buffer's current directory. We can't just have the child check
191 for an error when it does the chdir, since it's in a vfork. */
192 current_dir = expand_and_dir_to_file (current_buffer->directory, Qnil);
193 if (NILP (Ffile_accessible_directory_p (current_dir)))
194 report_file_error ("Setting current directory",
195 Fcons (current_buffer->directory, Qnil));
198 /* child_setup must clobber environ in systems with true vfork.
199 Protect it from permanent change. */
200 register char **save_environ = environ;
201 register int fd1 = fd[1];
203 #if 0 /* Some systems don't have sigblock. */
204 mask = sigblock (sigmask (SIGCHLD));
205 #endif
207 /* Record that we're about to create a synchronous process. */
208 synch_process_alive = 1;
210 pid = vfork ();
212 if (pid == 0)
214 if (fd[0] >= 0)
215 close (fd[0]);
216 #ifdef USG
217 setpgrp ();
218 #else
219 setpgrp (pid, pid);
220 #endif /* USG */
221 child_setup (filefd, fd1, fd1, new_argv, 0, current_dir);
224 #if 0
225 /* Tell SIGCHLD handler to look for this pid. */
226 synch_process_pid = pid;
227 /* Now let SIGCHLD come through. */
228 sigsetmask (mask);
229 #endif
231 environ = save_environ;
233 close (filefd);
234 close (fd1);
237 if (pid < 0)
239 close (fd[0]);
240 report_file_error ("Doing vfork", Qnil);
243 if (XTYPE (buffer) == Lisp_Int)
245 #ifndef subprocesses
246 /* If Emacs has been built with asynchronous subprocess support,
247 we don't need to do this, I think because it will then have
248 the facilities for handling SIGCHLD. */
249 wait_without_blocking ();
250 #endif /* subprocesses */
251 return Qnil;
254 synch_process_death = 0;
255 synch_process_retcode = 0;
257 record_unwind_protect (call_process_cleanup,
258 Fcons (make_number (fd[0]), make_number (pid)));
261 if (XTYPE (buffer) == Lisp_Buffer)
262 Fset_buffer (buffer);
264 immediate_quit = 1;
265 QUIT;
268 register int nread;
270 while ((nread = read (fd[0], buf, sizeof buf)) > 0)
272 immediate_quit = 0;
273 if (!NILP (buffer))
274 insert (buf, nread);
275 if (!NILP (display) && INTERACTIVE)
276 redisplay_preserve_echo_area ();
277 immediate_quit = 1;
278 QUIT;
282 /* Wait for it to terminate, unless it already has. */
283 wait_for_termination (pid);
285 immediate_quit = 0;
287 set_buffer_internal (old);
289 unbind_to (count, Qnil);
291 if (synch_process_death)
292 return build_string (synch_process_death);
293 return make_number (synch_process_retcode);
295 #endif
297 static void
298 delete_temp_file (name)
299 Lisp_Object name;
301 unlink (XSTRING (name)->data);
304 DEFUN ("call-process-region", Fcall_process_region, Scall_process_region,
305 3, MANY, 0,
306 "Send text from START to END to a synchronous process running PROGRAM.\n\
307 Delete the text if fourth arg DELETE is non-nil.\n\
308 Insert output in BUFFER before point; t means current buffer;\n\
309 nil for BUFFER means discard it; 0 means discard and don't wait.\n\
310 Sixth arg DISPLAY non-nil means redisplay buffer as output is inserted.\n\
311 Remaining args are passed to PROGRAM at startup as command args.\n\
312 If BUFFER is nil, returns immediately with value nil.\n\
313 Otherwise waits for PROGRAM to terminate\n\
314 and returns a numeric exit status or a signal description string.\n\
315 If you quit, the process is killed with SIGKILL.")
316 (nargs, args)
317 int nargs;
318 register Lisp_Object *args;
320 register Lisp_Object filename_string, start, end;
321 char tempfile[20];
322 int count = specpdl_ptr - specpdl;
324 #ifdef VMS
325 strcpy (tempfile, "tmp:emacsXXXXXX.");
326 #else
327 strcpy (tempfile, "/tmp/emacsXXXXXX");
328 #endif
329 mktemp (tempfile);
331 filename_string = build_string (tempfile);
332 start = args[0];
333 end = args[1];
334 Fwrite_region (start, end, filename_string, Qnil, Qlambda);
335 record_unwind_protect (delete_temp_file, filename_string);
337 if (!NILP (args[3]))
338 Fdelete_region (start, end);
340 args[3] = filename_string;
341 Fcall_process (nargs - 2, args + 2);
343 return unbind_to (count, Qnil);
346 #ifndef VMS /* VMS version is in vmsproc.c. */
348 /* This is the last thing run in a newly forked inferior
349 either synchronous or asynchronous.
350 Copy descriptors IN, OUT and ERR as descriptors 0, 1 and 2.
351 Initialize inferior's priority, pgrp, connected dir and environment.
352 then exec another program based on new_argv.
354 This function may change environ for the superior process.
355 Therefore, the superior process must save and restore the value
356 of environ around the vfork and the call to this function.
358 ENV is the environment for the subprocess.
360 SET_PGRP is nonzero if we should put the subprocess into a separate
361 process group.
363 CURRENT_DIR is an elisp string giving the path of the current
364 directory the subprocess should have. Since we can't really signal
365 a decent error from within the child, this should be verified as an
366 executable directory by the parent. */
368 child_setup (in, out, err, new_argv, set_pgrp, current_dir)
369 int in, out, err;
370 register char **new_argv;
371 int set_pgrp;
372 Lisp_Object current_dir;
374 char **env;
376 register int pid = getpid();
378 setpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, pid, 0);
380 #ifdef subprocesses
381 /* Close Emacs's descriptors that this process should not have. */
382 close_process_descs ();
383 #endif
385 /* Note that use of alloca is always safe here. It's obvious for systems
386 that do not have true vfork or that have true (stack) alloca.
387 If using vfork and C_ALLOCA it is safe because that changes
388 the superior's static variables as if the superior had done alloca
389 and will be cleaned up in the usual way. */
391 register unsigned char *temp;
392 register int i;
394 i = XSTRING (current_dir)->size;
395 temp = (unsigned char *) alloca (i + 2);
396 bcopy (XSTRING (current_dir)->data, temp, i);
397 if (temp[i - 1] != '/') temp[i++] = '/';
398 temp[i] = 0;
400 /* We can't signal an Elisp error here; we're in a vfork. Since
401 the callers check the current directory before forking, this
402 should only return an error if the directory's permissions
403 are changed between the check and this chdir, but we should
404 at least check. */
405 if (chdir (temp) < 0)
406 exit (errno);
409 /* Set `env' to a vector of the strings in Vprocess_environment. */
411 register Lisp_Object tem;
412 register char **new_env;
413 register int new_length;
415 new_length = 0;
416 for (tem = Vprocess_environment;
417 (XTYPE (tem) == Lisp_Cons
418 && XTYPE (XCONS (tem)->car) == Lisp_String);
419 tem = XCONS (tem)->cdr)
420 new_length++;
422 /* new_length + 1 to include terminating 0 */
423 env = new_env = (char **) alloca ((new_length + 1) * sizeof (char *));
425 /* Copy the Vprocess_alist strings into new_env. */
426 for (tem = Vprocess_environment;
427 (XTYPE (tem) == Lisp_Cons
428 && XTYPE (XCONS (tem)->car) == Lisp_String);
429 tem = XCONS (tem)->cdr)
430 *new_env++ = (char *) XSTRING (XCONS (tem)->car)->data;
431 *new_env = 0;
434 close (0);
435 close (1);
436 close (2);
438 dup2 (in, 0);
439 dup2 (out, 1);
440 dup2 (err, 2);
441 close (in);
442 close (out);
443 close (err);
445 #ifdef USG
446 setpgrp (); /* No arguments but equivalent in this case */
447 #else
448 setpgrp (pid, pid);
449 #endif /* USG */
450 setpgrp_of_tty (pid);
452 #ifdef vipc
453 something missing here;
454 #endif /* vipc */
456 /* execvp does not accept an environment arg so the only way
457 to pass this environment is to set environ. Our caller
458 is responsible for restoring the ambient value of environ. */
459 environ = env;
460 execvp (new_argv[0], new_argv);
462 write (1, "Couldn't exec the program ", 26);
463 write (1, new_argv[0], strlen (new_argv[0]));
464 _exit (1);
467 static int
468 getenv_internal (var, varlen, value, valuelen)
469 char *var;
470 int varlen;
471 char **value;
472 int *valuelen;
474 Lisp_Object scan;
476 for (scan = Vprocess_environment; CONSP (scan); scan = XCONS (scan)->cdr)
478 Lisp_Object entry = XCONS (scan)->car;
480 if (XTYPE (entry) == Lisp_String
481 && XSTRING (entry)->size > varlen
482 && XSTRING (entry)->data[varlen] == '='
483 && ! bcmp (XSTRING (entry)->data, var, varlen))
485 *value = (char *) XSTRING (entry)->data + (varlen + 1);
486 *valuelen = XSTRING (entry)->size - (varlen + 1);
487 return 1;
491 return 0;
494 DEFUN ("getenv", Fgetenv, Sgetenv, 1, 2, 0,
495 "Return the value of environment variable VAR, as a string.\n\
496 VAR should be a string. Value is nil if VAR is undefined in the environment.\n\
497 This function consults the variable ``process-environment'' for its value.")
498 (var)
499 Lisp_Object var;
501 char *value;
502 int valuelen;
504 CHECK_STRING (var, 0);
505 if (getenv_internal (XSTRING (var)->data, XSTRING (var)->size,
506 &value, &valuelen))
507 return make_string (value, valuelen);
508 else
509 return Qnil;
512 /* A version of getenv that consults process_environment, easily
513 callable from C. */
514 char *
515 egetenv (var)
516 char *var;
518 char *value;
519 int valuelen;
521 if (getenv_internal (var, strlen (var), &value, &valuelen))
522 return value;
523 else
524 return 0;
527 #endif /* not VMS */
529 init_callproc ()
531 register char * sh;
532 register char **envp;
533 Lisp_Object tempdir;
536 char *data_dir = egetenv ("EMACSDATA");
538 Vdata_directory =
539 Ffile_name_as_directory
540 (build_string (data_dir ? data_dir : PATH_DATA));
543 /* Check the EMACSPATH environment variable, defaulting to the
544 PATH_EXEC path from paths.h. */
545 Vexec_path = decode_env_path ("EMACSPATH", PATH_EXEC);
546 Vexec_directory = Ffile_name_as_directory (Fcar (Vexec_path));
547 Vexec_path = nconc2 (decode_env_path ("PATH", ""), Vexec_path);
549 tempdir = Fdirectory_file_name (Vexec_directory);
550 if (access (XSTRING (tempdir)->data, 0) < 0)
552 printf ("Warning: arch-dependent data dir (%s) does not exist.\n",
553 XSTRING (Vexec_directory)->data);
554 sleep (2);
557 tempdir = Fdirectory_file_name (Vdata_directory);
558 if (access (XSTRING (tempdir)->data, 0) < 0)
560 printf ("Warning: arch-independent data dir (%s) does not exist.\n",
561 XSTRING (Vdata_directory)->data);
562 sleep (2);
565 #ifdef VMS
566 Vshell_file_name = build_string ("*dcl*");
567 #else
568 sh = (char *) getenv ("SHELL");
569 Vshell_file_name = build_string (sh ? sh : "/bin/sh");
570 #endif
572 Vprocess_environment = Qnil;
573 #ifndef CANNOT_DUMP
574 if (initialized)
575 #endif
576 for (envp = environ; *envp; envp++)
577 Vprocess_environment = Fcons (build_string (*envp),
578 Vprocess_environment);
581 syms_of_callproc ()
583 DEFVAR_LISP ("shell-file-name", &Vshell_file_name,
584 "*File name to load inferior shells from.\n\
585 Initialized from the SHELL environment variable.");
587 DEFVAR_LISP ("exec-path", &Vexec_path,
588 "*List of directories to search programs to run in subprocesses.\n\
589 Each element is a string (directory name) or nil (try default directory).");
591 DEFVAR_LISP ("exec-directory", &Vexec_directory,
592 "Directory of architecture-dependent files that come with GNU Emacs,\n\
593 especially executable programs intended for Emacs to invoke.");
595 DEFVAR_LISP ("data-directory", &Vdata_directory,
596 "Directory of architecture-independent files that come with GNU Emacs,\n\
597 intended for Emacs to use.");
599 DEFVAR_LISP ("process-environment", &Vprocess_environment,
600 "List of environment variables for subprocesses to inherit.\n\
601 Each element should be a string of the form ENVVARNAME=VALUE.\n\
602 The environment which Emacs inherits is placed in this variable\n\
603 when Emacs starts.");
605 #ifndef VMS
606 defsubr (&Scall_process);
607 #endif
608 defsubr (&Sgetenv);
609 defsubr (&Scall_process_region);