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1 /* Guts of POSIX spawn interface. Generic POSIX.1 version.
2 Copyright (C) 2000-2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
5 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
7 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
10 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Lesser General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
16 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
17 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
18 02111-1307 USA. */
20 #include <errno.h>
21 #include <fcntl.h>
22 #include <paths.h>
23 #include <spawn.h>
24 #include <stdlib.h>
25 #include <string.h>
26 #include <unistd.h>
27 #include "spawn_int.h"
28 #include <not-cancel.h>
29 #include <local-setxid.h>
32 /* The Unix standard contains a long explanation of the way to signal
33 an error after the fork() was successful. Since no new wait status
34 was wanted there is no way to signal an error using one of the
35 available methods. The committee chose to signal an error by a
36 normal program exit with the exit code 127. */
37 #define SPAWN_ERROR 127
40 /* The file is accessible but it is not an executable file. Invoke
41 the shell to interpret it as a script. */
42 static void
43 internal_function
44 script_execute (const char *file, char *const argv[], char *const envp[])
46 /* Count the arguments. */
47 int argc = 0;
48 while (argv[argc++])
51 /* Construct an argument list for the shell. */
53 char *new_argv[argc + 1];
54 new_argv[0] = (char *) _PATH_BSHELL;
55 new_argv[1] = (char *) file;
56 while (argc > 1)
58 new_argv[argc] = argv[argc - 1];
59 --argc;
62 /* Execute the shell. */
63 __execve (new_argv[0], new_argv, envp);
68 /* Spawn a new process executing PATH with the attributes describes in *ATTRP.
69 Before running the process perform the actions described in FILE-ACTIONS. */
70 int
71 __spawni (pid_t *pid, const char *file,
72 const posix_spawn_file_actions_t *file_actions,
73 const posix_spawnattr_t *attrp, char *const argv[],
74 char *const envp[], int use_path)
76 pid_t new_pid;
77 char *path, *p, *name;
78 size_t len;
79 size_t pathlen;
81 /* Do this once. */
82 short int flags = attrp == NULL ? 0 : attrp->__flags;
84 /* Generate the new process. */
85 if ((flags & POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK) != 0
86 /* If no major work is done, allow using vfork. Note that we
87 might perform the path searching. But this would be done by
88 a call to execvp(), too, and such a call must be OK according
89 to POSIX. */
90 || ((flags & (POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGMASK | POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGDEF
91 | POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDPARAM | POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDULER
92 | POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP | POSIX_SPAWN_RESETIDS)) == 0
93 && file_actions == NULL))
94 new_pid = __vfork ();
95 else
96 new_pid = __fork ();
98 if (new_pid != 0)
100 if (new_pid < 0)
101 return errno;
103 /* The call was successful. Store the PID if necessary. */
104 if (pid != NULL)
105 *pid = new_pid;
107 return 0;
110 /* Set signal mask. */
111 if ((flags & POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGMASK) != 0
112 && __sigprocmask (SIG_SETMASK, &attrp->__ss, NULL) != 0)
113 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
115 /* Set signal default action. */
116 if ((flags & POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGDEF) != 0)
118 /* We have to iterate over all signals. This could possibly be
119 done better but it requires system specific solutions since
120 the sigset_t data type can be very different on different
121 architectures. */
122 int sig;
123 struct sigaction sa;
125 memset (&sa, '\0', sizeof (sa));
126 sa.sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
128 for (sig = 1; sig <= _NSIG; ++sig)
129 if (__sigismember (&attrp->__sd, sig) != 0
130 && __sigaction (sig, &sa, NULL) != 0)
131 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
135 #ifdef _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
136 /* Set the scheduling algorithm and parameters. */
137 if ((flags & (POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDPARAM | POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDULER))
138 == POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDPARAM)
140 if (__sched_setparam (0, &attrp->__sp) == -1)
141 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
143 else if ((flags & POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDULER) != 0)
145 if (__sched_setscheduler (0, attrp->__policy,
146 (flags & POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDPARAM) != 0
147 ? &attrp->__sp : NULL) == -1)
148 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
150 #endif
152 /* Set the process group ID. */
153 if ((flags & POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP) != 0
154 && __setpgid (0, attrp->__pgrp) != 0)
155 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
157 /* Set the effective user and group IDs. */
158 if ((flags & POSIX_SPAWN_RESETIDS) != 0
159 && (local_seteuid (__getuid ()) != 0
160 || local_setegid (__getgid ()) != 0))
161 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
163 /* Execute the file actions. */
164 if (file_actions != NULL)
166 int cnt;
168 for (cnt = 0; cnt < file_actions->__used; ++cnt)
170 struct __spawn_action *action = &file_actions->__actions[cnt];
172 switch (action->tag)
174 case spawn_do_close:
175 if (close_not_cancel (action->action.close_action.fd) != 0)
176 /* Signal the error. */
177 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
178 break;
180 case spawn_do_open:
182 int new_fd = open_not_cancel (action->action.open_action.path,
183 action->action.open_action.oflag
184 | O_LARGEFILE,
185 action->action.open_action.mode);
187 if (new_fd == -1)
188 /* The `open' call failed. */
189 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
191 /* Make sure the desired file descriptor is used. */
192 if (new_fd != action->action.open_action.fd)
194 if (__dup2 (new_fd, action->action.open_action.fd)
195 != action->action.open_action.fd)
196 /* The `dup2' call failed. */
197 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
199 if (close_not_cancel (new_fd) != 0)
200 /* The `close' call failed. */
201 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
204 break;
206 case spawn_do_dup2:
207 if (__dup2 (action->action.dup2_action.fd,
208 action->action.dup2_action.newfd)
209 != action->action.dup2_action.newfd)
210 /* The `dup2' call failed. */
211 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
212 break;
217 if (! use_path || strchr (file, '/') != NULL)
219 /* The FILE parameter is actually a path. */
220 __execve (file, argv, envp);
222 if (errno == ENOEXEC)
223 script_execute (file, argv, envp);
225 /* Oh, oh. `execve' returns. This is bad. */
226 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
229 /* We have to search for FILE on the path. */
230 path = getenv ("PATH");
231 if (path == NULL)
233 /* There is no `PATH' in the environment.
234 The default search path is the current directory
235 followed by the path `confstr' returns for `_CS_PATH'. */
236 len = confstr (_CS_PATH, (char *) NULL, 0);
237 path = (char *) __alloca (1 + len);
238 path[0] = ':';
239 (void) confstr (_CS_PATH, path + 1, len);
242 len = strlen (file) + 1;
243 pathlen = strlen (path);
244 name = __alloca (pathlen + len + 1);
245 /* Copy the file name at the top. */
246 name = (char *) memcpy (name + pathlen + 1, file, len);
247 /* And add the slash. */
248 *--name = '/';
250 p = path;
253 char *startp;
255 path = p;
256 p = __strchrnul (path, ':');
258 if (p == path)
259 /* Two adjacent colons, or a colon at the beginning or the end
260 of `PATH' means to search the current directory. */
261 startp = name + 1;
262 else
263 startp = (char *) memcpy (name - (p - path), path, p - path);
265 /* Try to execute this name. If it works, execv will not return. */
266 __execve (startp, argv, envp);
268 if (errno == ENOEXEC)
269 script_execute (startp, argv, envp);
271 switch (errno)
273 case EACCES:
274 case ENOENT:
275 case ESTALE:
276 case ENOTDIR:
277 /* Those errors indicate the file is missing or not executable
278 by us, in which case we want to just try the next path
279 directory. */
280 break;
282 default:
283 /* Some other error means we found an executable file, but
284 something went wrong executing it; return the error to our
285 caller. */
286 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);
289 while (*p++ != '\0');
291 /* Return with an error. */
292 _exit (SPAWN_ERROR);