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1 """Pseudo terminal utilities."""
3 # Bugs: No signal handling. Doesn't set slave termios and window size.
4 # Only tested on Linux.
5 # See: W. Richard Stevens. 1992. Advanced Programming in the
6 # UNIX Environment. Chapter 19.
7 # Author: Steen Lumholt -- with additions by Guido.
9 from select import select
10 import os
11 import tty
13 __all__ = ["openpty","fork","spawn"]
15 STDIN_FILENO = 0
16 STDOUT_FILENO = 1
17 STDERR_FILENO = 2
19 CHILD = 0
21 def openpty():
22 """openpty() -> (master_fd, slave_fd)
23 Open a pty master/slave pair, using os.openpty() if possible."""
25 try:
26 return os.openpty()
27 except (AttributeError, OSError):
28 pass
29 master_fd, slave_name = _open_terminal()
30 slave_fd = slave_open(slave_name)
31 return master_fd, slave_fd
33 def master_open():
34 """master_open() -> (master_fd, slave_name)
35 Open a pty master and return the fd, and the filename of the slave end.
36 Deprecated, use openpty() instead."""
38 try:
39 master_fd, slave_fd = os.openpty()
40 except (AttributeError, OSError):
41 pass
42 else:
43 slave_name = os.ttyname(slave_fd)
44 os.close(slave_fd)
45 return master_fd, slave_name
47 return _open_terminal()
49 def _open_terminal():
50 """Open pty master and return (master_fd, tty_name).
51 SGI and generic BSD version, for when openpty() fails."""
52 try:
53 import sgi
54 except ImportError:
55 pass
56 else:
57 try:
58 tty_name, master_fd = sgi._getpty(os.O_RDWR, 0666, 0)
59 except IOError, msg:
60 raise os.error, msg
61 return master_fd, tty_name
62 for x in 'pqrstuvwxyzPQRST':
63 for y in '0123456789abcdef':
64 pty_name = '/dev/pty' + x + y
65 try:
66 fd = os.open(pty_name, os.O_RDWR)
67 except os.error:
68 continue
69 return (fd, '/dev/tty' + x + y)
70 raise os.error, 'out of pty devices'
72 def slave_open(tty_name):
73 """slave_open(tty_name) -> slave_fd
74 Open the pty slave and acquire the controlling terminal, returning
75 opened filedescriptor.
76 Deprecated, use openpty() instead."""
78 result = os.open(tty_name, os.O_RDWR)
79 try:
80 from fcntl import ioctl, I_PUSH
81 except ImportError:
82 return result
83 try:
84 ioctl(result, I_PUSH, "ptem")
85 ioctl(result, I_PUSH, "ldterm")
86 except IOError:
87 pass
88 return result
90 def fork():
91 """fork() -> (pid, master_fd)
92 Fork and make the child a session leader with a controlling terminal."""
94 try:
95 pid, fd = os.forkpty()
96 except (AttributeError, OSError):
97 pass
98 else:
99 if pid == CHILD:
100 try:
101 os.setsid()
102 except OSError:
103 # os.forkpty() already set us session leader
104 pass
105 return pid, fd
107 master_fd, slave_fd = openpty()
108 pid = os.fork()
109 if pid == CHILD:
110 # Establish a new session.
111 os.setsid()
112 os.close(master_fd)
114 # Slave becomes stdin/stdout/stderr of child.
115 os.dup2(slave_fd, STDIN_FILENO)
116 os.dup2(slave_fd, STDOUT_FILENO)
117 os.dup2(slave_fd, STDERR_FILENO)
118 if (slave_fd > STDERR_FILENO):
119 os.close (slave_fd)
121 # Explicitly open the tty to make it become a controlling tty.
122 tmp_fd = os.open(os.ttyname(STDOUT_FILENO), os.O_RDWR)
123 os.close(tmp_fd)
124 else:
125 os.close(slave_fd)
127 # Parent and child process.
128 return pid, master_fd
130 def _writen(fd, data):
131 """Write all the data to a descriptor."""
132 while data != '':
133 n = os.write(fd, data)
134 data = data[n:]
136 def _read(fd):
137 """Default read function."""
138 return os.read(fd, 1024)
140 def _copy(master_fd, master_read=_read, stdin_read=_read):
141 """Parent copy loop.
142 Copies
143 pty master -> standard output (master_read)
144 standard input -> pty master (stdin_read)"""
145 while 1:
146 rfds, wfds, xfds = select(
147 [master_fd, STDIN_FILENO], [], [])
148 if master_fd in rfds:
149 data = master_read(master_fd)
150 os.write(STDOUT_FILENO, data)
151 if STDIN_FILENO in rfds:
152 data = stdin_read(STDIN_FILENO)
153 _writen(master_fd, data)
155 def spawn(argv, master_read=_read, stdin_read=_read):
156 """Create a spawned process."""
157 if type(argv) == type(''):
158 argv = (argv,)
159 pid, master_fd = fork()
160 if pid == CHILD:
161 os.execlp(argv[0], *argv)
162 try:
163 mode = tty.tcgetattr(STDIN_FILENO)
164 tty.setraw(STDIN_FILENO)
165 restore = 1
166 except tty.error: # This is the same as termios.error
167 restore = 0
168 try:
169 _copy(master_fd, master_read, stdin_read)
170 except (IOError, OSError):
171 if restore:
172 tty.tcsetattr(STDIN_FILENO, tty.TCSAFLUSH, mode)
174 os.close(master_fd)