3 * server.c Set up and handle communications with a server process.
5 * Server Handling copyright 1992-1999, 2001 The Free Software Foundation
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52 STATIC
volatile enum t_bool read_pipe_timeout
;
53 STATIC pid_t server_master_pid
= NOPROCESS
;
56 { (char *) NULL
, (char *) NULL
};
57 STATIC t_pf_pair server_pair
=
58 { (FILE *) NULL
, (FILE *) NULL
};
59 STATIC pid_t server_id
= NULLPROCESS
;
61 * Arbitrary text that should not be found in the shell output.
62 * It must be a single line and appear verbatim at the start of
63 * the terminating output line.
65 tSCC z_done
[] = "ShElL-OuTpUt-HaS-bEeN-cOmPlEtEd";
66 tSCC
* p_cur_dir
= (char *) NULL
;
71 * Read data from a file pointer (a pipe to a process in this context)
72 * until we either get EOF or we get a marker line back.
73 * The read data are stored in a malloc-ed string that is truncated
74 * to size at the end. Input is assumed to be an ASCII string.
83 t_bool got_done
= BOOL_FALSE
;
85 text_size
= sizeof (z_line
) * 2;
86 pz_scan
= pz_text
= xmalloc (text_size
);
93 read_pipe_timeout
= BOOL_FALSE
;
94 if (fgets (z_line
, sizeof (z_line
), fp
) == (char *) NULL
)
97 if (strncmp (z_line
, z_done
, sizeof (z_done
) - 1) == 0)
103 strcpy (pz_scan
, z_line
);
104 pz_scan
+= strlen (z_line
);
105 used_ct
= (size_t) (pz_scan
- pz_text
);
107 if (text_size
- used_ct
< sizeof (z_line
))
109 size_t off
= (size_t) (pz_scan
- pz_text
);
112 pz_text
= xrealloc (pz_text
, text_size
);
113 pz_scan
= pz_text
+ off
;
118 if (read_pipe_timeout
|| ! got_done
)
120 free ((void *) pz_text
);
121 return (char *) NULL
;
124 while ((pz_scan
> pz_text
) && ISSPACE (pz_scan
[-1]))
127 return xrealloc (pz_text
, strlen (pz_text
) + 1);
134 * Make certain the server process is dead, close the
135 * pipes to it and from it, finally NULL out the file pointers
140 if ( (server_id
!= NULLPROCESS
)
141 && (server_master_pid
== getpid ()))
143 kill ((pid_t
) server_id
, SIGKILL
);
144 server_id
= NULLPROCESS
;
145 server_master_pid
= NOPROCESS
;
146 fclose (server_pair
.pf_read
);
147 fclose (server_pair
.pf_write
);
148 server_pair
.pf_read
= server_pair
.pf_write
= (FILE *) NULL
;
153 * sig_handler really only handles the timeout and pipe signals.
154 * This ensures that we do not wait forever on a request
155 * to our server, and also that if the server dies, we do not
156 * die from a sigpipe problem.
159 sig_handler (int signo ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
)
162 /* FIXME: this is illegal to do in a signal handler. */
164 "fixincl ERROR: sig_handler: killed pid %ld due to %s\n",
165 (long) server_id
, signo
== SIGPIPE
? "SIGPIPE" : "SIGALRM");
168 read_pipe_timeout
= BOOL_TRUE
;
173 * server_setup Establish the signal handler for PIPE and ALARM.
174 * Also establishes the current directory to give to the
175 * server process at the start of every server command.
180 static int atexit_done
= 0;
181 char buff
[MAXPATHLEN
+ 1];
183 if (atexit_done
++ == 0)
184 atexit (close_server
);
186 fputs ("NOTE: server restarted\n", stderr
);
188 server_master_pid
= getpid ();
190 signal (SIGPIPE
, sig_handler
);
191 signal (SIGALRM
, sig_handler
);
193 fputs ("trap : 1\n", server_pair
.pf_write
);
194 fflush (server_pair
.pf_write
);
195 getcwd (buff
, MAXPATHLEN
+ 1);
196 p_cur_dir
= xstrdup (buff
);
202 * Locate a shell suitable for use. For various reasons
203 * (like the use of "trap" in server_setup(), it must be a
206 * Most of the time, /bin/sh is preferred, but sometimes
207 * it's quite broken (like on Ultrix). autoconf lets you
208 * override with $CONFIG_SHELL, so we do the same.
214 char * shell
= getenv ("CONFIG_SHELL");
225 * Run a shell command on the server. The command string
226 * passed in is wrapped inside the sequence:
228 * cd <original directory>
231 * echo <end-of-command-marker>
233 * This ensures that all commands start at a known place in
234 * the directory structure, that any incomplete output lines
235 * are completed and that our special marker sequence appears on
236 * a line by itself. We have chosen a marker that is
237 * excessively unlikely to be reproduced in normal output:
239 * "ShElL-OuTpUt-HaS-bEeN-cOmPlEtEd"
242 run_shell (const char* pz_cmd
)
244 tSCC zNoServer
[] = "Server not running, cannot run:\n%s\n\n";
245 t_bool retry
= BOOL_TRUE
;
248 /* IF the shell server process is not running yet,
249 THEN try to start it. */
250 if (server_id
== NULLPROCESS
)
252 def_args
[0] = find_shell ();
254 server_id
= proc2_fopen (&server_pair
, def_args
);
259 /* IF it is still not running, THEN return the nil string. */
262 fprintf (stderr
, zNoServer
, pz_cmd
);
263 return xcalloc (1, 1);
266 /* Make sure the process will pay attention to us, send the
267 supplied command, and then have it output a special marker that
269 fprintf (server_pair
.pf_write
, "cd %s\n%s\n\necho\necho %s\n",
270 p_cur_dir
, pz_cmd
, z_done
);
271 fflush (server_pair
.pf_write
);
273 /* IF the server died and we received a SIGPIPE,
274 THEN return an empty string. */
275 if (server_id
== NULLPROCESS
)
277 fprintf (stderr
, zNoServer
, pz_cmd
);
278 return xcalloc (1, 1);
281 /* Now try to read back all the data. If we fail due to either a
282 sigpipe or sigalrm (timeout), we will return the nil string. */
284 char *pz
= load_data (server_pair
.pf_read
);
286 if (pz
== (char *) NULL
)
296 fprintf (stderr
, "CLOSING SHELL SERVER - command failure:\n\t%s\n",
301 fprintf( stderr
, "run_shell command success: %s\n", pz
);