3 * server.c Set up and handle communications with a server process.
5 * Server Handling copyright 1992-1999 The Free Software Foundation
7 * Server Handling is free software.
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48 #include "auto-host.h"
55 STATIC
const char* def_args
[] =
56 { (char *) NULL
, (char *) NULL
};
61 * Given an FD for an inferior process to use as stdin,
62 * start that process and return a NEW FD that that process
63 * will use for its stdout. Requires the argument vector
64 * for the new process and, optionally, a pointer to a place
65 * to store the child's process id.
68 chain_open (stdin_fd
, pp_args
, p_child
)
73 t_fd_pair stdout_pair
;
77 stdout_pair
.read_fd
= stdout_pair
.write_fd
= -1;
80 * Create a pipe it will be the child process' stdout,
81 * and the parent will read from it.
83 if (pipe ((int *) &stdout_pair
) < 0)
85 if (p_child
!= (pid_t
*) NULL
)
91 * If we did not get an arg list, use the default
93 if (pp_args
== (tCC
**) NULL
)
97 * If the arg list does not have a program,
98 * assume the "SHELL" from the environment, or, failing
99 * that, then sh. Set argv[0] to whatever we decided on.
101 if (pz_cmd
= *pp_args
,
102 (pz_cmd
== (char *) NULL
) || (*pz_cmd
== '\0'))
105 pz_cmd
= getenv ("SHELL");
106 if (pz_cmd
== (char *) NULL
)
111 printf ("START: %s\n", pz_cmd
);
115 while (pp_args
[++idx
] != (char *) NULL
)
116 printf (" ARG %2d: %s\n", idx
, pp_args
[idx
]);
121 * Call fork() and see which process we become
126 case NOPROCESS
: /* parent - error in call */
127 close (stdout_pair
.read_fd
);
128 close (stdout_pair
.write_fd
);
129 if (p_child
!= (pid_t
*) NULL
)
130 *p_child
= NOPROCESS
;
133 default: /* parent - return opposite FD's */
134 if (p_child
!= (pid_t
*) NULL
)
137 printf ("for pid %d: stdin from %d, stdout to %d\n"
138 "for parent: read from %d\n",
139 ch_id
, stdin_fd
, stdout_pair
.write_fd
, stdout_pair
.read_fd
);
142 close (stdout_pair
.write_fd
);
143 return stdout_pair
.read_fd
;
145 case NULLPROCESS
: /* child - continue processing */
150 * Close the pipe end handed back to the parent process
152 close (stdout_pair
.read_fd
);
155 * Close our current stdin and stdout
157 close (STDIN_FILENO
);
158 close (STDOUT_FILENO
);
161 * Make the fd passed in the stdin, and the write end of
162 * the new pipe become the stdout.
164 fcntl (stdout_pair
.write_fd
, F_DUPFD
, STDOUT_FILENO
);
165 fcntl (stdin_fd
, F_DUPFD
, STDIN_FILENO
);
167 if (*pp_args
== (char *) NULL
)
170 execvp (pz_cmd
, (char**)pp_args
);
171 fprintf (stderr
, "Error %d: Could not execvp( '%s', ... ): %s\n",
172 errno
, pz_cmd
, xstrerror (errno
));
180 * Given a pointer to an argument vector, start a process and
181 * place its stdin and stdout file descriptors into an fd pair
182 * structure. The "write_fd" connects to the inferior process
183 * stdin, and the "read_fd" connects to its stdout. The calling
184 * process should write to "write_fd" and read from "read_fd".
185 * The return value is the process id of the created process.
188 proc2_open (p_pair
, pp_args
)
194 /* Create a bi-directional pipe. Writes on 0 arrive on 1 and vice
195 versa, so the parent and child processes will read and write to
197 if (pipe ((int *) p_pair
) < 0)
200 p_pair
->read_fd
= chain_open (p_pair
->read_fd
, pp_args
, &ch_id
);
201 if (ch_id
== NOPROCESS
)
202 close (p_pair
->write_fd
);
211 * Identical to "proc2_open()", except that the "fd"'s are
212 * "fdopen(3)"-ed into file pointers instead.
215 proc2_fopen (pf_pair
, pp_args
)
220 pid_t ch_id
= proc2_open (&fd_pair
, pp_args
);
222 if (ch_id
== NOPROCESS
)
225 pf_pair
->pf_read
= fdopen (fd_pair
.read_fd
, "r");
226 pf_pair
->pf_write
= fdopen (fd_pair
.write_fd
, "w");