;; popen emulation, for non-stdio based ports. (define-module (ice-9 popen)) ;; (define-module (guile popen) ;; :use-module (guile posix)) ;; a guardian to ensure the cleanup is done correctly when ;; an open pipe is gc'd or a close-port is used. (define pipe-guardian (make-guardian)) ;; a weak hash-table to store the process ids. (define-public port/pid-table (make-weak-key-hash-table 31)) (define (ensure-fdes port mode) (or (false-if-exception (fileno port)) (open-fdes *null-device* mode))) ;; run a process connected to an input or output port. ;; mode: OPEN_READ or OPEN_WRITE. ;; returns port/pid pair. (define (open-process mode prog . args) (let ((p (pipe)) (reading (string=? mode OPEN_READ))) (setvbuf (cdr p) _IONBF) (let ((pid (primitive-fork))) (cond ((= pid 0) ;; child (set-batch-mode?! #t) ;; select the three file descriptors to be used as ;; standard descriptors 0, 1, 2 for the new process. one ;; is the pipe to the parent, the other two are taken ;; from the current Scheme input/output/error ports if ;; possible. (let ((input-fdes (if reading (ensure-fdes (current-input-port) O_RDONLY) (fileno (car p)))) (output-fdes (if reading (fileno (cdr p)) (ensure-fdes (current-output-port) O_WRONLY))) (error-fdes (ensure-fdes (current-error-port) O_WRONLY))) ;; close all file descriptors in ports inherited from ;; the parent except for the three selected above. ;; this is to avoid causing problems for other pipes in ;; the parent. ;; use low-level system calls, not close-port or the ;; scsh routines, to avoid side-effects such as ;; flushing port buffers or evicting ports. (port-for-each (lambda (pt-entry) (false-if-exception (let ((pt-fileno (fileno pt-entry))) (if (not (or (= pt-fileno input-fdes) (= pt-fileno output-fdes) (= pt-fileno error-fdes))) (close-fdes pt-fileno)))))) ;; copy the three selected descriptors to the standard ;; descriptors 0, 1, 2. note that it's possible that ;; output-fdes or input-fdes is equal to error-fdes. (cond ((not (= input-fdes 0)) (if (= output-fdes 0) (set! output-fdes (dup->fdes 0))) (if (= error-fdes 0) (set! error-fdes (dup->fdes 0))) (dup2 input-fdes 0))) (cond ((not (= output-fdes 1)) (if (= error-fdes 1) (set! error-fdes (dup->fdes 1))) (dup2 output-fdes 1))) (dup2 error-fdes 2) (apply execlp prog prog args))) (else ;; parent (if reading (close-port (cdr p)) (close-port (car p))) (cons (if reading (car p) (cdr p)) pid)))))) (define-public (open-pipe command mode) "Executes the shell command @var{command} (a string) in a subprocess. A pipe to the process is created and returned. @var{modes} specifies whether an input or output pipe to the process is created: it should be the value of @code{OPEN_READ} or @code{OPEN_WRITE}." (let* ((port/pid (open-process mode "/bin/sh" "-c" command)) (port (car port/pid))) (pipe-guardian port) (hashq-set! port/pid-table port (cdr port/pid)) port)) (define (fetch-pid port) (let ((pid (hashq-ref port/pid-table port))) (hashq-remove! port/pid-table port) pid)) (define (close-process port/pid) (close-port (car port/pid)) (cdr (waitpid (cdr port/pid)))) ;; for the background cleanup handler: just clean up without reporting ;; errors. also avoids blocking the process: if the child isn't ready ;; to be collected, puts it back into the guardian's live list so it ;; can be tried again the next time the cleanup runs. (define (close-process-quietly port/pid) (catch 'system-error (lambda () (close-port (car port/pid))) (lambda args #f)) (catch 'system-error (lambda () (let ((pid/status (waitpid (cdr port/pid) WNOHANG))) (cond ((= (car pid/status) 0) ;; not ready for collection (pipe-guardian (car port/pid)) (hashq-set! port/pid-table (car port/pid) (cdr port/pid)))))) (lambda args #f))) (define-public (close-pipe p) "Closes the pipe created by @code{open-pipe}, then waits for the process to terminate and returns its status value, @xref{Processes, waitpid}, for information on how to interpret this value." (let ((pid (fetch-pid p))) (if (not pid) (error "close-pipe: pipe not in table")) (close-process (cons p pid)))) (define reap-pipes (lambda () (let loop ((p (pipe-guardian))) (cond (p ;; maybe removed already by close-pipe. (let ((pid (fetch-pid p))) (if pid (close-process-quietly (cons p pid)))) (loop (pipe-guardian))))))) (add-hook! after-gc-hook reap-pipes) (define-public (open-input-pipe command) "Equivalent to @code{open-pipe} with mode @code{OPEN_READ}" (open-pipe command OPEN_READ)) (define-public (open-output-pipe command) "Equivalent to @code{open-pipe} with mode @code{OPEN_WRITE}" (open-pipe command OPEN_WRITE))