src/pkg/os/exec.go

// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

package os

import (
	"syscall"
)

// ForkExec forks the current process and invokes Exec with the file, arguments,
// and environment specified by argv0, argv, and envv.  It returns the process
// id of the forked process and an Error, if any.  The fd array specifies the
// file descriptors to be set up in the new process: fd[0] will be Unix file
// descriptor 0 (standard input), fd[1] descriptor 1, and so on.  A nil entry
// will cause the child to have no open file descriptor with that index.
// If dir is not empty, the child chdirs into the directory before execing the program.
func ForkExec(argv0 string, argv []string, envv []string, dir string, fd []*File) (pid int, err Error) {
	if envv == nil {
		envv = Environ()
	}
	// Create array of integer (system) fds.
	intfd := make([]int, len(fd))
	for i, f := range fd {
		if f == nil {
			intfd[i] = -1
		} else {
			intfd[i] = f.Fd()
		}
	}

	p, e := syscall.ForkExec(argv0, argv, envv, dir, intfd)
	if e != 0 {
		return 0, &PathError{"fork/exec", argv0, Errno(e)}
	}
	return p, nil
}

// Exec replaces the current process with an execution of the program
// named by argv0, with arguments argv and environment envv.
// If successful, Exec never returns.  If it fails, it returns an Error.
// ForkExec is almost always a better way to execute a program.
func Exec(argv0 string, argv []string, envv []string) Error {
	if envv == nil {
		envv = Environ()
	}
	e := syscall.Exec(argv0, argv, envv)
	if e != 0 {
		return &PathError{"exec", argv0, Errno(e)}
	}
	return nil
}

// TODO(rsc): Should os implement its own syscall.WaitStatus
// wrapper with the methods, or is exposing the underlying one enough?
//
// TODO(rsc): Certainly need to have Rusage struct,
// since syscall one might have different field types across
// different OS.

// Waitmsg stores the information about an exited process as reported by Wait.
type Waitmsg struct {
	Pid                int             // The process's id.
	syscall.WaitStatus                 // System-dependent status info.
	Rusage             *syscall.Rusage // System-dependent resource usage info.
}

// Options for Wait.
const (
	WNOHANG   = syscall.WNOHANG  // Don't wait if no process has exited.
	WSTOPPED  = syscall.WSTOPPED // If set, status of stopped subprocesses is also reported.
	WUNTRACED = WSTOPPED
	WRUSAGE   = 1 << 20 // Record resource usage.
)

// WRUSAGE must not be too high a bit, to avoid clashing with Linux's
// WCLONE, WALL, and WNOTHREAD flags, which sit in the top few bits of
// the options

// Wait waits for process pid to exit or stop, and then returns a
// Waitmsg describing its status and an Error, if any. The options
// (WNOHANG etc.) affect the behavior of the Wait call.
func Wait(pid int, options int) (w *Waitmsg, err Error) {
	var status syscall.WaitStatus
	var rusage *syscall.Rusage
	if options&WRUSAGE != 0 {
		rusage = new(syscall.Rusage)
		options ^= WRUSAGE
	}
	pid1, e := syscall.Wait4(pid, &status, options, rusage)
	if e != 0 {
		return nil, NewSyscallError("wait", e)
	}
	w = new(Waitmsg)
	w.Pid = pid1
	w.WaitStatus = status
	w.Rusage = rusage
	return w, nil
}

// Convert i to decimal string.
func itod(i int) string {
	if i == 0 {
		return "0"
	}

	u := uint64(i)
	if i < 0 {
		u = -u
	}

	// Assemble decimal in reverse order.
	var b [32]byte
	bp := len(b)
	for ; u > 0; u /= 10 {
		bp--
		b[bp] = byte(u%10) + '0'
	}

	if i < 0 {
		bp--
		b[bp] = '-'
	}

	return string(b[bp:])
}

func (w Waitmsg) String() string {
	// TODO(austin) Use signal names when possible?
	res := ""
	switch {
	case w.Exited():
		res = "exit status " + itod(w.ExitStatus())
	case w.Signaled():
		res = "signal " + itod(w.Signal())
	case w.Stopped():
		res = "stop signal " + itod(w.StopSignal())
		if w.StopSignal() == syscall.SIGTRAP && w.TrapCause() != 0 {
			res += " (trap " + itod(w.TrapCause()) + ")"
		}
	case w.Continued():
		res = "continued"
	}
	if w.CoreDump() {
		res += " (core dumped)"
	}
	return res
}

// Getpid returns the process id of the caller.
func Getpid() int { return syscall.Getpid() }

// Getppid returns the process id of the caller's parent.
func Getppid() int { return syscall.Getppid() }