/* * mispipe: written by Nathanael Nerode. * * Copyright 2004 Nathanael Nerode. * * Licensed under the GPL version 2 or above, and dual-licensed under the * following license: * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN * THE SOFTWARE. */ /* * Usage: mispipe * Run | , but return with the exit status of . * * This is designed for a very specific purpose: logging. * "foo | logger -t foo" * will return with the exit status of logger, not that of foo. * "mispipe foo 'logger -t foo'" * will return with the exit status of foo. */ /* * To do: * Make this into a fancy, internationalized, option-handling hellbeast. * (But why bother? It does its job quite well.) */ #include /* errno */ #include #include /* pipe(), fork(),... */ #include /* system() */ #include /* waitpid(), etc. */ #include #include /* va_list, for error() */ static const char* progname; /* Stores argv[0] */ static int filedes[2]; /* Stores pipe file descriptors */ /* Subroutine for 'warning' and 'error' which prefixes progname */ static void warning_prefix(void) { fputs(progname, stderr); fputs(": ", stderr); } /* Issue a warning, then die */ __attribute__(( noreturn, format (printf, 1, 2) )) static void error(const char* formatstr, ...) { va_list ap; va_start(ap, formatstr); warning_prefix(); vfprintf(stderr, formatstr, ap); va_end(ap); exit(1); } /* Issue a warning, then die, with errno */ __attribute__(( noreturn )) static void error_with_errno(const char* message) { int saved_errno; saved_errno=errno; warning_prefix(); fputs(message, stderr); fputs(": error number ", stderr); fprintf(stderr, "%i\n", saved_errno); exit(1); } /* Convert 'wait'/'system'-style exit status to 'exit'-style exit status */ __attribute__(( const )) static int shorten_status(int status_big) { if (WIFEXITED(status_big)) return WEXITSTATUS(status_big); if (WIFSIGNALED(status_big)) return 128+WTERMSIG(status_big); if (WIFSTOPPED(status_big)) return 128+WSTOPSIG(status_big); #ifdef WCOREDUMP if (WCOREDUMP(status_big)) error("Ow, somebody dumped core!"); #endif error("shorten_status got an invalid status (?!)"); } /* All the work for command 2. */ __attribute__(( noreturn )) static void subprocess2(const char* cmd) { /* Close the old standard input. */ if (close(0)) error_with_errno("Failed (in child) closing standard input"); /* Make the reading end of the pipe the new standard input. */ if (dup2(filedes[0], 0) == -1) error_with_errno("Failed (in child) redefining standard input"); /* Close the original file descriptor for it */ if (close(filedes[0])) error_with_errno("Failed (in child) closing filedes[0]"); /* Close the other end of the pipe. */ if (close(filedes[1])) error_with_errno("Failed (in child) closing filedes[1]"); /* Do the second command, and throw away the exit status. */ system(cmd); /* Close the standard input. */ if (close(0)) error_with_errno("Failed (in child) closing standard output " " (while cleaning up)"); exit(0); } int main (int argc, const char ** argv) { int status_big; /* Exit status, 'wait' and 'system' style */ pid_t child2_pid; pid_t dead_pid; /* Set progname */ progname = argv[0]; /* Verify arguments */ if (argc != 3) error("Wrong number of args, aborting\n"); /* Open a new pipe */ if (pipe(filedes)) error_with_errno("pipe() failed"); /* Fork to run second command */ child2_pid = fork(); if (child2_pid == 0) subprocess2(argv[2]); if (child2_pid == -1) error_with_errno("fork() failed"); /* Run first command inline (seriously!) */ /* Close standard output. */ if (close(1)) error_with_errno("Failed closing standard output"); /* Make the writing end of the pipe the new standard output. */ if (dup2(filedes[1], 1) == -1) error_with_errno("Failed redefining standard output"); /* Close the original file descriptor for it. */ if (close(filedes[1])) error_with_errno("Failed closing filedes[1]"); /* Close the other end of the pipe. */ if (close(filedes[0])) error_with_errno("Failed closing filedes[0]"); /* Do the first command, and (crucially) get the status. */ status_big = system(argv[1]); /* Close standard output. */ if (close(1)) error_with_errno("Failed closing standard output (while cleaning up)"); /* Wait for the other process to exit. */ /* We don't care about the status. */ dead_pid = waitpid(child2_pid, NULL, WUNTRACED); if (dead_pid == -1) { error_with_errno("waitpid() failed"); } else if (dead_pid != child2_pid) { error("waitpid(): Who died? %i\n", dead_pid); } /* Return the desired exit status. */ return shorten_status(status_big); }