fish-shell/exec.h
2006-10-20 01:19:47 +10:00

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/** \file exec.h
Prototypes for functions for executing a program
*/
#ifndef FISH_EXEC_H
/**
Header guard
*/
#define FISH_EXEC_H
#include <wchar.h>
#include "proc.h"
#include "util.h"
/**
pipe redirection error message
*/
#define PIPE_ERROR _(L"An error occurred while setting up pipe")
/**
Execute the processes specified by j.
I've put a fair bit of work into making builtins behave like other
programs as far as pipes are concerned. Unlike i.e. bash, builtins
can pipe to other builtins with arbitrary amounts of data, and so
on. To do this, after a builtin is run in the real process, it
forks and a dummy process is created, responsible for writing the
output of the builtin. This is surprisingly cheap on my computer,
probably because of the marvels of copy on write forking.
This rule is short circuted in the case where a builtin does not
output to a pipe and does in fact not output anything. The speed
improvement from this optimization is not noticable on a normal
computer/OS in regular use, but the promiscous amounts of forking
that resulted was responsible for a huge slowdown when using
Valgrind as well as when doing complex command-specific
completions.
*/
void exec( job_t *j );
/**
Evaluate the expression cmd in a subshell, add the outputs into the
list l. On return, the status flag as returned bu \c
proc_gfet_last_status will not be changed.
\param cmd the command to execute
\param l The list to insert output into.If \c l is zero, the output will be discarded.
\return the status of the last job to exit, or -1 if en error was encountered.
*/
__warn_unused int exec_subshell( const wchar_t *cmd,
array_list_t *l );
/**
Loops over close until thesyscall was run without beeing
interrupted. Thenremoves the fd from the open_fds list.
*/
void exec_close( int fd );
/**
Call pipe(), and add resulting fds to open_fds, the list of opend
file descriptors for pipes.
*/
int exec_pipe( int fd[2]);
#endif