1 /* Waiting for a subprocess to finish.
2 Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2005-2016 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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
22 #include "wait-process.h"
29 #include <sys/types.h>
33 #include "fatal-signal.h"
37 #define _(str) gettext (str)
39 #define SIZEOF(a) (sizeof(a) / sizeof(a[0]))
42 #if defined _MSC_VER || defined __MINGW32__
44 #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
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)
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
59 The 'used' and 'child' fields are accessed from within the cleanup_slaves()
60 action, therefore we mark them as 'volatile'. */
63 volatile sig_atomic_t used;
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. */
77 # define TERMINATOR SIGHUP
79 # define TERMINATOR SIGTERM
82 /* The cleanup action. It gets called asynchronously. */
88 /* Get the last registered slave. */
89 size_t n = slaves_count;
94 /* Skip unused entries in the slaves array. */
97 pid_t slave = slaves[n].child;
100 kill (slave, TERMINATOR);
105 /* Register a subprocess as being a slave process. This means that the
106 subprocess will be terminated when its creator receives a catchable fatal
107 signal or exits normally. Registration ends when wait_subprocess()
108 notices that the subprocess has exited. */
110 register_slave_subprocess (pid_t child)
112 static bool cleanup_slaves_registered = false;
113 if (!cleanup_slaves_registered)
115 atexit (cleanup_slaves);
116 at_fatal_signal (cleanup_slaves);
117 cleanup_slaves_registered = true;
120 /* Try to store the new slave in an unused entry of the slaves array. */
122 slaves_entry_t *s = slaves;
123 slaves_entry_t *s_end = s + slaves_count;
125 for (; s < s_end; s++)
128 /* The two uses of 'volatile' in the slaves_entry_t type above
129 (and ISO C 99 section 5.1.2.3.(5)) ensure that we mark the
130 entry as used only after the child pid has been written to the
131 memory location s->child. */
138 if (slaves_count == slaves_allocated)
140 /* Extend the slaves array. Note that we cannot use xrealloc(),
141 because then the cleanup_slaves() function could access an already
142 deallocated array. */
143 slaves_entry_t *old_slaves = slaves;
144 size_t new_slaves_allocated = 2 * slaves_allocated;
145 slaves_entry_t *new_slaves =
147 malloc (new_slaves_allocated * sizeof (slaves_entry_t));
148 if (new_slaves == NULL)
150 /* xalloc_die() will call exit() which will invoke cleanup_slaves().
151 Additionally we need to kill child, because it's not yet among
153 kill (child, TERMINATOR);
156 memcpy (new_slaves, old_slaves,
157 slaves_allocated * sizeof (slaves_entry_t));
159 slaves_allocated = new_slaves_allocated;
160 /* Now we can free the old slaves array. */
161 if (old_slaves != static_slaves)
164 /* The three uses of 'volatile' in the types above (and ISO C 99 section
165 5.1.2.3.(5)) ensure that we increment the slaves_count only after the
166 new slave and its 'used' bit have been written to the memory locations
167 that make up slaves[slaves_count]. */
168 slaves[slaves_count].child = child;
169 slaves[slaves_count].used = 1;
173 /* Unregister a child from the list of slave subprocesses. */
175 unregister_slave_subprocess (pid_t child)
177 /* The easiest way to remove an entry from a list that can be used by
178 an asynchronous signal handler is just to mark it as unused. For this,
179 we rely on sig_atomic_t. */
180 slaves_entry_t *s = slaves;
181 slaves_entry_t *s_end = s + slaves_count;
183 for (; s < s_end; s++)
184 if (s->used && s->child == child)
189 /* Wait for a subprocess to finish. Return its exit code.
190 If it didn't terminate correctly, exit if exit_on_error is true, otherwise
193 wait_subprocess (pid_t child, const char *progname,
194 bool ignore_sigpipe, bool null_stderr,
195 bool slave_process, bool exit_on_error,
198 #if HAVE_WAITID && defined WNOWAIT && 0
199 /* Commented out because waitid() without WEXITED and with WNOWAIT doesn't
200 work: On Solaris 7 and OSF/1 4.0, it returns -1 and sets errno = ECHILD,
201 and on HP-UX 10.20 it just hangs. */
202 /* Use of waitid() with WNOWAIT avoids a race condition: If slave_process is
203 true, and this process sleeps a very long time between the return from
204 waitpid() and the execution of unregister_slave_subprocess(), and
205 meanwhile another process acquires the same PID as child, and then - still
206 before unregister_slave_subprocess() - this process gets a fatal signal,
207 it would kill the other totally unrelated process. */
210 if (termsigp != NULL)
214 if (waitid (P_PID, child, &info, WEXITED | (slave_process ? WNOWAIT : 0))
221 if (exit_on_error || !null_stderr)
222 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, errno,
223 _("%s subprocess"), progname);
227 /* info.si_code is set to one of CLD_EXITED, CLD_KILLED, CLD_DUMPED,
228 CLD_TRAPPED, CLD_STOPPED, CLD_CONTINUED. Loop until the program
230 if (info.si_code == CLD_EXITED
231 || info.si_code == CLD_KILLED || info.si_code == CLD_DUMPED)
235 /* The child process has exited or was signalled. */
239 /* Unregister the child from the list of slave subprocesses, so that
240 later, when we exit, we don't kill a totally unrelated process which
241 may have acquired the same pid. */
242 unregister_slave_subprocess (child);
244 /* Now remove the zombie from the process list. */
247 if (waitid (P_PID, child, &info, WEXITED) < 0)
253 if (exit_on_error || !null_stderr)
254 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, errno,
255 _("%s subprocess"), progname);
262 switch (info.si_code)
266 if (termsigp != NULL)
267 *termsigp = info.si_status; /* TODO: or info.si_signo? */
269 if (info.si_status == SIGPIPE && ignore_sigpipe)
272 if (exit_on_error || (!null_stderr && termsigp == NULL))
273 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, 0,
274 _("%s subprocess got fatal signal %d"),
275 progname, info.si_status);
278 if (info.si_status == 127)
280 if (exit_on_error || !null_stderr)
281 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, 0,
282 _("%s subprocess failed"), progname);
285 return info.si_status;
290 /* waitpid() is just as portable as wait() nowadays. */
293 if (termsigp != NULL)
298 int result = waitpid (child, &status, 0);
306 # if 0 /* defined ECHILD */
309 /* Child process nonexistent?! Assume it terminated
315 if (exit_on_error || !null_stderr)
316 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, errno,
317 _("%s subprocess"), progname);
321 /* One of WIFSIGNALED (status), WIFEXITED (status), WIFSTOPPED (status)
322 must always be true, since we did not specify WCONTINUED in the
323 waitpid() call. Loop until the program terminates. */
324 if (!WIFSTOPPED (status))
328 /* The child process has exited or was signalled. */
331 /* Unregister the child from the list of slave subprocesses, so that
332 later, when we exit, we don't kill a totally unrelated process which
333 may have acquired the same pid. */
334 unregister_slave_subprocess (child);
336 if (WIFSIGNALED (status))
338 if (termsigp != NULL)
339 *termsigp = WTERMSIG (status);
341 if (WTERMSIG (status) == SIGPIPE && ignore_sigpipe)
344 if (exit_on_error || (!null_stderr && termsigp == NULL))
345 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, 0,
346 _("%s subprocess got fatal signal %d"),
347 progname, (int) WTERMSIG (status));
350 if (!WIFEXITED (status))
352 if (WEXITSTATUS (status) == 127)
354 if (exit_on_error || !null_stderr)
355 error (exit_on_error ? EXIT_FAILURE : 0, 0,
356 _("%s subprocess failed"), progname);
359 return WEXITSTATUS (status);