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1 /* Waiting for a subprocess to finish.
2 Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2005-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program 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
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19 #include <config.h>
21 /* Specification. */
22 #include "wait-process.h"
24 #include <errno.h>
25 #include <stdlib.h>
26 #include <string.h>
27 #include <signal.h>
29 #include <sys/types.h>
30 #include <sys/wait.h>
32 #include "error.h"
33 #include "fatal-signal.h"
34 #include "xalloc.h"
35 #include "gettext.h"
37 #define _(str) gettext (str)
39 #define SIZEOF(a) (sizeof(a) / sizeof(a[0]))
42 #if defined _WIN32 && ! defined __CYGWIN__
44 # define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
45 # include <windows.h>
47 /* The return value of spawnvp() is really a process handle as returned
48 by CreateProcess(). Therefore we can kill it using TerminateProcess. */
49 # define kill(pid,sig) TerminateProcess ((HANDLE) (pid), sig)
51 #endif
54 /* Type of an entry in the slaves array.
55 The 'used' bit determines whether this entry is currently in use.
56 (If pid_t was an atomic type like sig_atomic_t, we could just set the
57 'child' field to 0 when unregistering a slave process, and wouldn't need
58 the 'used' field.)
59 The 'used' and 'child' fields are accessed from within the cleanup_slaves()
60 action, therefore we mark them as 'volatile'. */
61 typedef struct
63 volatile sig_atomic_t used;
64 volatile pid_t child;
66 slaves_entry_t;
68 /* The registered slave subprocesses. */
69 static slaves_entry_t static_slaves[32];
70 static slaves_entry_t * volatile slaves = static_slaves;
71 static sig_atomic_t volatile slaves_count = 0;
72 static size_t slaves_allocated = SIZEOF (static_slaves);
74 /* The termination signal for slave subprocesses.
75 2003-10-07: Terminator becomes Governator. */
76 #ifdef SIGHUP
77 # define TERMINATOR SIGHUP
78 #else
79 # define TERMINATOR SIGTERM
80 #endif
82 /* The cleanup action. It gets called asynchronously. */
83 static _GL_ASYNC_SAFE void
84 cleanup_slaves (void)
86 for (;;)
88 /* Get the last registered slave. */
89 size_t n = slaves_count;
90 if (n == 0)
91 break;
92 n--;
93 slaves_count = n;
94 /* Skip unused entries in the slaves array. */
95 if (slaves[n].used)
97 pid_t slave = slaves[n].child;
99 /* Kill the slave. */
100 kill (slave, TERMINATOR);
105 /* The cleanup action, taking a signal argument.
106 It gets called asynchronously. */
107 static _GL_ASYNC_SAFE void
108 cleanup_slaves_action (int sig _GL_UNUSED)
110 cleanup_slaves ();
113 /* Register a subprocess as being a slave process. This means that the
114 subprocess will be terminated when its creator receives a catchable fatal
115 signal or exits normally. Registration ends when wait_subprocess()
116 notices that the subprocess has exited. */
117 void
118 register_slave_subprocess (pid_t child)
120 static bool cleanup_slaves_registered = false;
121 if (!cleanup_slaves_registered)
123 atexit (cleanup_slaves);
124 at_fatal_signal (cleanup_slaves_action);
125 cleanup_slaves_registered = true;
128 /* Try to store the new slave in an unused entry of the slaves array. */
130 slaves_entry_t *s = slaves;
131 slaves_entry_t *s_end = s + slaves_count;
133 for (; s < s_end; s++)
134 if (!s->used)
136 /* The two uses of 'volatile' in the slaves_entry_t type above
137 (and ISO C 99 section 5.1.2.3.(5)) ensure that we mark the
138 entry as used only after the child pid has been written to the
139 memory location s->child. */
140 s->child = child;
141 s->used = 1;
142 return;
146 if (slaves_count == slaves_allocated)
148 /* Extend the slaves array. Note that we cannot use xrealloc(),
149 because then the cleanup_slaves() function could access an already
150 deallocated array. */
151 slaves_entry_t *old_slaves = slaves;
152 size_t new_slaves_allocated = 2 * slaves_allocated;
153 slaves_entry_t *new_slaves =
154 (slaves_entry_t *)
155 malloc (new_slaves_allocated * sizeof (slaves_entry_t));
156 if (new_slaves == NULL)
158 /* xalloc_die() will call exit() which will invoke cleanup_slaves().
159 Additionally we need to kill child, because it's not yet among
160 the slaves list. */
161 kill (child, TERMINATOR);
162 xalloc_die ();
164 memcpy (new_slaves, old_slaves,
165 slaves_allocated * sizeof (slaves_entry_t));
166 slaves = new_slaves;
167 slaves_allocated = new_slaves_allocated;
168 /* Now we can free the old slaves array. */
169 if (old_slaves != static_slaves)
170 free (old_slaves);
172 /* The three uses of 'volatile' in the types above (and ISO C 99 section
173 5.1.2.3.(5)) ensure that we increment the slaves_count only after the
174 new slave and its 'used' bit have been written to the memory locations
175 that make up slaves[slaves_count]. */
176 slaves[slaves_count].child = child;
177 slaves[slaves_count].used = 1;
178 slaves_count++;
181 /* Unregister a child from the list of slave subprocesses. */
182 static void
183 unregister_slave_subprocess (pid_t child)
185 /* The easiest way to remove an entry from a list that can be used by
186 an asynchronous signal handler is just to mark it as unused. For this,
187 we rely on sig_atomic_t. */
188 slaves_entry_t *s = slaves;
189 slaves_entry_t *s_end = s + slaves_count;
191 for (; s < s_end; s++)
192 if (s->used && s->child == child)
193 s->used = 0;
197 /* Wait for a subprocess to finish. Return its exit code.
198 If it didn't terminate correctly, exit if exit_on_error is true, otherwise
199 return 127. */
201 wait_subprocess (pid_t child, const char *progname,
202 bool ignore_sigpipe, bool null_stderr,
203 bool slave_process, bool exit_on_error,
204 int *termsigp)
206 #if HAVE_WAITID && defined WNOWAIT && 0
207 /* Commented out because waitid() without WEXITED and with WNOWAIT doesn't
208 work: On Solaris 7 and OSF/1 4.0, it returns -1 and sets errno = ECHILD,
209 and on HP-UX 10.20 it just hangs. */
210 /* Use of waitid() with WNOWAIT avoids a race condition: If slave_process is
211 true, and this process sleeps a very long time between the return from
212 waitpid() and the execution of unregister_slave_subprocess(), and
213 meanwhile another process acquires the same PID as child, and then - still
214 before unregister_slave_subprocess() - this process gets a fatal signal,
215 it would kill the other totally unrelated process. */
216 siginfo_t info;
218 if (termsigp != NULL)
219 *termsigp = 0;
220 for (;;)
222 if (waitid (P_PID, child, &info, WEXITED | (slave_process ? WNOWAIT : 0))
223 < 0)
225 # ifdef EINTR
226 if (errno == EINTR)
227 continue;
228 # endif
229 if (exit_on_error || !null_stderr)
230 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, errno,
231 _("%s subprocess"), progname);
232 return 127;
235 /* info.si_code is set to one of CLD_EXITED, CLD_KILLED, CLD_DUMPED,
236 CLD_TRAPPED, CLD_STOPPED, CLD_CONTINUED. Loop until the program
237 terminates. */
238 if (info.si_code == CLD_EXITED
239 || info.si_code == CLD_KILLED || info.si_code == CLD_DUMPED)
240 break;
243 /* The child process has exited or was signalled. */
245 if (slave_process)
247 /* Unregister the child from the list of slave subprocesses, so that
248 later, when we exit, we don't kill a totally unrelated process which
249 may have acquired the same pid. */
250 unregister_slave_subprocess (child);
252 /* Now remove the zombie from the process list. */
253 for (;;)
255 if (waitid (P_PID, child, &info, WEXITED) < 0)
257 # ifdef EINTR
258 if (errno == EINTR)
259 continue;
260 # endif
261 if (exit_on_error || !null_stderr)
262 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, errno,
263 _("%s subprocess"), progname);
264 return 127;
266 break;
270 switch (info.si_code)
272 case CLD_KILLED:
273 case CLD_DUMPED:
274 if (termsigp != NULL)
275 *termsigp = info.si_status; /* TODO: or info.si_signo? */
276 # ifdef SIGPIPE
277 if (info.si_status == SIGPIPE && ignore_sigpipe)
278 return 0;
279 # endif
280 if (exit_on_error || (!null_stderr && termsigp == NULL))
281 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, 0,
282 _("%s subprocess got fatal signal %d"),
283 progname, info.si_status);
284 return 127;
285 case CLD_EXITED:
286 if (info.si_status == 127)
288 if (exit_on_error || !null_stderr)
289 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, 0,
290 _("%s subprocess failed"), progname);
291 return 127;
293 return info.si_status;
294 default:
295 abort ();
297 #else
298 /* waitpid() is just as portable as wait() nowadays. */
299 int status;
301 if (termsigp != NULL)
302 *termsigp = 0;
303 status = 0;
304 for (;;)
306 int result = waitpid (child, &status, 0);
308 if (result != child)
310 # ifdef EINTR
311 if (errno == EINTR)
312 continue;
313 # endif
314 # if 0 /* defined ECHILD */
315 if (errno == ECHILD)
317 /* Child process nonexistent?! Assume it terminated
318 successfully. */
319 status = 0;
320 break;
322 # endif
323 if (exit_on_error || !null_stderr)
324 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, errno,
325 _("%s subprocess"), progname);
326 return 127;
329 /* One of WIFSIGNALED (status), WIFEXITED (status), WIFSTOPPED (status)
330 must always be true, since we did not specify WCONTINUED in the
331 waitpid() call. Loop until the program terminates. */
332 if (!WIFSTOPPED (status))
333 break;
336 /* The child process has exited or was signalled. */
338 if (slave_process)
339 /* Unregister the child from the list of slave subprocesses, so that
340 later, when we exit, we don't kill a totally unrelated process which
341 may have acquired the same pid. */
342 unregister_slave_subprocess (child);
344 if (WIFSIGNALED (status))
346 if (termsigp != NULL)
347 *termsigp = WTERMSIG (status);
348 # ifdef SIGPIPE
349 if (WTERMSIG (status) == SIGPIPE && ignore_sigpipe)
350 return 0;
351 # endif
352 if (exit_on_error || (!null_stderr && termsigp == NULL))
353 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, 0,
354 _("%s subprocess got fatal signal %d"),
355 progname, (int) WTERMSIG (status));
356 return 127;
358 if (!WIFEXITED (status))
359 abort ();
360 if (WEXITSTATUS (status) == 127)
362 if (exit_on_error || !null_stderr)
363 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, 0,
364 _("%s subprocess failed"), progname);
365 return 127;
367 return WEXITSTATUS (status);
368 #endif