;; popen emulation, for non-stdio based ports. ;;;; Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;;;; ;;;; This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;;;; modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public ;;;; License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either ;;;; version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ;;;; ;;;; This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU ;;;; Lesser General Public License for more details. ;;;; ;;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public ;;;; License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software ;;;; Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA ;;;; (define-module (ice-9 popen) :export (port/pid-table open-pipe* open-pipe close-pipe open-input-pipe open-output-pipe open-input-output-pipe)) (eval-when (load eval compile) (load-extension (string-append "libguile-" (effective-version)) "scm_init_popen")) (define (make-rw-port read-port write-port) (make-soft-port (vector (lambda (c) (write-char c write-port)) (lambda (s) (display s write-port)) (lambda () (force-output write-port)) (lambda () (read-char read-port)) (lambda () (close-port read-port) (close-port write-port))) "r+")) ;; 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 port/pid-table (make-weak-key-hash-table 31)) (define (open-pipe* mode command . args) "Executes the program @var{command} with optional arguments @var{args} (all strings) in a subprocess. A port to the process (based on pipes) is created and returned. @var{mode} specifies whether an input, an output or an input-output port to the process is created: it should be the value of @code{OPEN_READ}, @code{OPEN_WRITE} or @code{OPEN_BOTH}." (let* ((port/pid (apply open-process mode command args)) (port (car port/pid))) (pipe-guardian port) (hashq-set! port/pid-table port (cdr port/pid)) port)) (define (open-pipe command mode) "Executes the shell command @var{command} (a string) in a subprocess. A port to the process (based on pipes) is created and returned. @var{mode} specifies whether an input, an output or an input-output port to the process is created: it should be the value of @code{OPEN_READ}, @code{OPEN_WRITE} or @code{OPEN_BOTH}." (open-pipe* mode "/bin/sh" "-c" command)) (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 (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 (open-input-pipe command) "Equivalent to @code{open-pipe} with mode @code{OPEN_READ}" (open-pipe command OPEN_READ)) (define (open-output-pipe command) "Equivalent to @code{open-pipe} with mode @code{OPEN_WRITE}" (open-pipe command OPEN_WRITE)) (define (open-input-output-pipe command) "Equivalent to @code{open-pipe} with mode @code{OPEN_BOTH}" (open-pipe command OPEN_BOTH))