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[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / lib / IPC / Open3.pm
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a0d0e21e 1package IPC::Open3;
7e1af8bc 2
3use strict;
4no strict 'refs'; # because users pass me bareword filehandles
8b3e92c6 5use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT $Me);
7e1af8bc 6
4633a7c4 7require 5.001;
a0d0e21e 8require Exporter;
7e1af8bc 9
a0d0e21e 10use Carp;
8b3e92c6 11use Symbol qw(gensym qualify);
7e1af8bc 12
8b3e92c6 13$VERSION = 1.0103;
7e1af8bc 14@ISA = qw(Exporter);
15@EXPORT = qw(open3);
a0d0e21e 16
f06db76b 17=head1 NAME
18
19IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error handling
20
21=head1 SYNOPSIS
22
84902520 23 $pid = open3(\*WTRFH, \*RDRFH, \*ERRFH,
f06db76b 24 'some cmd and args', 'optarg', ...);
25
26=head1 DESCRIPTION
27
28Extremely similar to open2(), open3() spawns the given $cmd and
29connects RDRFH for reading, WTRFH for writing, and ERRFH for errors. If
30ERRFH is '', or the same as RDRFH, then STDOUT and STDERR of the child are
eeba3357 31on the same file handle. The WTRFH will have autoflush turned on.
f06db76b 32
1fef88e7 33If WTRFH begins with "E<lt>&", then WTRFH will be closed in the parent, and
4633a7c4 34the child will read from it directly. If RDRFH or ERRFH begins with
a24d8dfd 35"E<gt>&", then the child will send output directly to that file handle.
36In both cases, there will be a dup(2) instead of a pipe(2) made.
f06db76b 37
cb1a09d0 38If you try to read from the child's stdout writer and their stderr
39writer, you'll have problems with blocking, which means you'll
40want to use select(), which means you'll have to use sysread() instead
41of normal stuff.
42
7e1af8bc 43open3() returns the process ID of the child process. It doesn't return on
44failure: it just raises an exception matching C</^open3:/>.
f06db76b 45
7e1af8bc 46=head1 WARNING
47
48It will not create these file handles for you. You have to do this
49yourself. So don't pass it empty variables expecting them to get filled
50in for you.
f06db76b 51
7e1af8bc 52Additionally, this is very dangerous as you may block forever. It
53assumes it's going to talk to something like B<bc>, both writing to it
54and reading from it. This is presumably safe because you "know" that
55commands like B<bc> will read a line at a time and output a line at a
56time. Programs like B<sort> that read their entire input stream first,
57however, are quite apt to cause deadlock.
58
59The big problem with this approach is that if you don't have control
7a2e2cd6 60over source code being run in the child process, you can't control
7e1af8bc 61what it does with pipe buffering. Thus you can't just open a pipe to
62C<cat -v> and continually read and write a line from it.
63
64=cut
a0d0e21e 65
66# &open3: Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>
67# derived mostly from &open2 by tom christiansen, <tchrist@convex.com>
4633a7c4 68# fixed for 5.001 by Ulrich Kunitz <kunitz@mai-koeln.com>
f55ee38a 69# ported to Win32 by Ron Schmidt, Merrill Lynch almost ended my career
a0d0e21e 70#
71# $Id: open3.pl,v 1.1 1993/11/23 06:26:15 marc Exp $
72#
73# usage: $pid = open3('wtr', 'rdr', 'err' 'some cmd and args', 'optarg', ...);
74#
75# spawn the given $cmd and connect rdr for
76# reading, wtr for writing, and err for errors.
77# if err is '', or the same as rdr, then stdout and
78# stderr of the child are on the same fh. returns pid
7e1af8bc 79# of child (or dies on failure).
a0d0e21e 80
81
4633a7c4 82# if wtr begins with '<&', then wtr will be closed in the parent, and
a0d0e21e 83# the child will read from it directly. if rdr or err begins with
84# '>&', then the child will send output directly to that fd. In both
85# cases, there will be a dup() instead of a pipe() made.
86
87
88# WARNING: this is dangerous, as you may block forever
89# unless you are very careful.
90#
91# $wtr is left unbuffered.
92#
93# abort program if
94# rdr or wtr are null
7e1af8bc 95# a system call fails
a0d0e21e 96
7e1af8bc 97$Me = 'open3 (bug)'; # you should never see this, it's always localized
a0d0e21e 98
7e1af8bc 99# Fatal.pm needs to be fixed WRT prototypes.
100
101sub xfork {
102 my $pid = fork;
103 defined $pid or croak "$Me: fork failed: $!";
104 return $pid;
105}
106
107sub xpipe {
108 pipe $_[0], $_[1] or croak "$Me: pipe($_[0], $_[1]) failed: $!";
109}
110
111# I tried using a * prototype character for the filehandle but it still
112# disallows a bearword while compiling under strict subs.
a0d0e21e 113
7e1af8bc 114sub xopen {
115 open $_[0], $_[1] or croak "$Me: open($_[0], $_[1]) failed: $!";
116}
117
118sub xclose {
119 close $_[0] or croak "$Me: close($_[0]) failed: $!";
120}
121
f55ee38a 122my $do_spawn = $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'MSWin32';
a24d8dfd 123
7e1af8bc 124sub _open3 {
125 local $Me = shift;
126 my($package, $dad_wtr, $dad_rdr, $dad_err, @cmd) = @_;
127 my($dup_wtr, $dup_rdr, $dup_err, $kidpid);
128
129 $dad_wtr or croak "$Me: wtr should not be null";
130 $dad_rdr or croak "$Me: rdr should not be null";
a0d0e21e 131 $dad_err = $dad_rdr if ($dad_err eq '');
132
4633a7c4 133 $dup_wtr = ($dad_wtr =~ s/^[<>]&//);
134 $dup_rdr = ($dad_rdr =~ s/^[<>]&//);
135 $dup_err = ($dad_err =~ s/^[<>]&//);
a0d0e21e 136
137 # force unqualified filehandles into callers' package
7e1af8bc 138 $dad_wtr = qualify $dad_wtr, $package;
139 $dad_rdr = qualify $dad_rdr, $package;
140 $dad_err = qualify $dad_err, $package;
141
8b3e92c6 142 my $kid_rdr = gensym;
143 my $kid_wtr = gensym;
144 my $kid_err = gensym;
7e1af8bc 145
146 xpipe $kid_rdr, $dad_wtr if !$dup_wtr;
147 xpipe $dad_rdr, $kid_wtr if !$dup_rdr;
148 xpipe $dad_err, $kid_err if !$dup_err && $dad_err ne $dad_rdr;
149
a24d8dfd 150 $kidpid = $do_spawn ? -1 : xfork;
151 if ($kidpid == 0) { # Kid
7e1af8bc 152 # If she wants to dup the kid's stderr onto her stdout I need to
153 # save a copy of her stdout before I put something else there.
154 if ($dad_rdr ne $dad_err && $dup_err
155 && fileno($dad_err) == fileno(STDOUT)) {
8b3e92c6 156 my $tmp = gensym;
7e1af8bc 157 xopen($tmp, ">&$dad_err");
158 $dad_err = $tmp;
159 }
a0d0e21e 160
a0d0e21e 161 if ($dup_wtr) {
8ebc5c01 162 xopen \*STDIN, "<&$dad_wtr" if fileno(STDIN) != fileno($dad_wtr);
a0d0e21e 163 } else {
8ebc5c01 164 xclose $dad_wtr;
8b3e92c6 165 xopen \*STDIN, "<&=" . fileno $kid_rdr;
a0d0e21e 166 }
167 if ($dup_rdr) {
8ebc5c01 168 xopen \*STDOUT, ">&$dad_rdr" if fileno(STDOUT) != fileno($dad_rdr);
a0d0e21e 169 } else {
8ebc5c01 170 xclose $dad_rdr;
8b3e92c6 171 xopen \*STDOUT, ">&=" . fileno $kid_wtr;
a0d0e21e 172 }
173 if ($dad_rdr ne $dad_err) {
174 if ($dup_err) {
8b3e92c6 175 # I have to use a fileno here because in this one case
176 # I'm doing a dup but the filehandle might be a reference
177 # (from the special case above).
178 xopen \*STDERR, ">&" . fileno $dad_err
8ebc5c01 179 if fileno(STDERR) != fileno($dad_err);
a0d0e21e 180 } else {
8ebc5c01 181 xclose $dad_err;
8b3e92c6 182 xopen \*STDERR, ">&=" . fileno $kid_err;
a0d0e21e 183 }
184 } else {
8ebc5c01 185 xopen \*STDERR, ">&STDOUT" if fileno(STDERR) != fileno(STDOUT);
a0d0e21e 186 }
187 local($")=(" ");
c07a80fd 188 exec @cmd
ad973f30 189 or croak "$Me: exec of @cmd failed";
a24d8dfd 190 } elsif ($do_spawn) {
191 # All the bookkeeping of coincidence between handles is
192 # handled in spawn_with_handles.
193
194 my @close;
195 if ($dup_wtr) {
8b3e92c6 196 $kid_rdr = \*{$dad_wtr};
197 push @close, $kid_rdr;
a24d8dfd 198 } else {
8b3e92c6 199 push @close, \*{$dad_wtr}, $kid_rdr;
a24d8dfd 200 }
201 if ($dup_rdr) {
8b3e92c6 202 $kid_wtr = \*{$dad_rdr};
203 push @close, $kid_wtr;
a24d8dfd 204 } else {
8b3e92c6 205 push @close, \*{$dad_rdr}, $kid_wtr;
a24d8dfd 206 }
207 if ($dad_rdr ne $dad_err) {
208 if ($dup_err) {
8b3e92c6 209 $kid_err = \*{$dad_err};
210 push @close, $kid_err;
a24d8dfd 211 } else {
8b3e92c6 212 push @close, \*{$dad_err}, $kid_err;
a24d8dfd 213 }
214 } else {
215 $kid_err = $kid_wtr;
216 }
217 require IO::Pipe;
218 $kidpid = eval {
219 spawn_with_handles( [ { mode => 'r',
8b3e92c6 220 open_as => $kid_rdr,
a24d8dfd 221 handle => \*STDIN },
222 { mode => 'w',
8b3e92c6 223 open_as => $kid_wtr,
a24d8dfd 224 handle => \*STDOUT },
225 { mode => 'w',
8b3e92c6 226 open_as => $kid_err,
a24d8dfd 227 handle => \*STDERR },
228 ], \@close, @cmd);
229 };
ad973f30 230 die "$Me: $@" if $@;
a0d0e21e 231 }
232
7e1af8bc 233 xclose $kid_rdr if !$dup_wtr;
234 xclose $kid_wtr if !$dup_rdr;
235 xclose $kid_err if !$dup_err && $dad_rdr ne $dad_err;
236 # If the write handle is a dup give it away entirely, close my copy
237 # of it.
238 xclose $dad_wtr if $dup_wtr;
a0d0e21e 239
240 select((select($dad_wtr), $| = 1)[0]); # unbuffer pipe
241 $kidpid;
242}
7e1af8bc 243
244sub open3 {
a24d8dfd 245 if (@_ < 4) {
246 local $" = ', ';
247 croak "open3(@_): not enough arguments";
248 }
7e1af8bc 249 return _open3 'open3', scalar caller, @_
250}
a0d0e21e 251
a24d8dfd 252sub spawn_with_handles {
253 my $fds = shift; # Fields: handle, mode, open_as
254 my $close_in_child = shift;
255 my ($fd, $pid, @saved_fh, $saved, %saved, @errs);
256 require Fcntl;
257
258 foreach $fd (@$fds) {
259 $fd->{tmp_copy} = IO::Handle->new_from_fd($fd->{handle}, $fd->{mode});
260 $saved{fileno $fd->{handle}} = $fd->{tmp_copy};
261 }
262 foreach $fd (@$fds) {
263 bless $fd->{handle}, 'IO::Handle'
264 unless eval { $fd->{handle}->isa('IO::Handle') } ;
265 # If some of handles to redirect-to coincide with handles to
266 # redirect, we need to use saved variants:
267 $fd->{handle}->fdopen($saved{fileno $fd->{open_as}} || $fd->{open_as},
268 $fd->{mode});
269 }
f55ee38a 270 unless ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
271 # Stderr may be redirected below, so we save the err text:
272 foreach $fd (@$close_in_child) {
273 fcntl($fd, Fcntl::F_SETFD(), 1) or push @errs, "fcntl $fd: $!"
274 unless $saved{fileno $fd}; # Do not close what we redirect!
275 }
a24d8dfd 276 }
277
278 unless (@errs) {
279 $pid = eval { system 1, @_ }; # 1 == P_NOWAIT
280 push @errs, "IO::Pipe: Can't spawn-NOWAIT: $!" if !$pid || $pid < 0;
281 }
282
283 foreach $fd (@$fds) {
284 $fd->{handle}->fdopen($fd->{tmp_copy}, $fd->{mode});
285 $fd->{tmp_copy}->close or croak "Can't close: $!";
286 }
287 croak join "\n", @errs if @errs;
288 return $pid;
289}
290
2911; # so require is happy