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+/* Auxiliary functions for the creation of subprocesses. Native Windows API.
+ Copyright (C) 2001, 2003-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2003.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program 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 General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#ifndef _WINDOWS_SPAWN_H
+#define _WINDOWS_SPAWN_H
+
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+/* Get declarations of the native Windows API functions. */
+#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
+#include <windows.h>
+
+
+/* Prepares an argument vector before calling spawn().
+
+ Note that spawn() does not by itself call the command interpreter
+ (getenv ("COMSPEC") != NULL ? getenv ("COMSPEC") :
+ ({ OSVERSIONINFO v; v.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof(OSVERSIONINFO);
+ GetVersionEx(&v);
+ v.dwPlatformId == VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT;
+ }) ? "cmd.exe" : "command.com").
+ Instead it simply concatenates the arguments, separated by ' ', and calls
+ CreateProcess(). We must quote the arguments since Windows CreateProcess()
+ interprets characters like ' ', '\t', '\\', '"' (but not '<' and '>') in a
+ special way:
+ - Space and tab are interpreted as delimiters. They are not treated as
+ delimiters if they are surrounded by double quotes: "...".
+ - Unescaped double quotes are removed from the input. Their only effect is
+ that within double quotes, space and tab are treated like normal
+ characters.
+ - Backslashes not followed by double quotes are not special.
+ - But 2*n+1 backslashes followed by a double quote become
+ n backslashes followed by a double quote (n >= 0):
+ \" -> "
+ \\\" -> \"
+ \\\\\" -> \\"
+ - '*', '?' characters may get expanded through wildcard expansion in the
+ callee: By default, in the callee, the initialization code before main()
+ takes the result of GetCommandLine(), wildcard-expands it, and passes it
+ to main(). The exceptions to this rule are:
+ - programs that inspect GetCommandLine() and ignore argv,
+ - mingw programs that have a global variable 'int _CRT_glob = 0;',
+ - Cygwin programs, when invoked from a Cygwin program.
+
+ prepare_spawn creates and returns a new argument vector, where the arguments
+ are appropriately quoted and an additional argument "sh.exe" has been added
+ at the beginning. The new argument vector is freshly allocated. The memory
+ for all its elements is allocated within *MEM_TO_FREE, which is freshly
+ allocated as well. In case of memory allocation failure, NULL is returned,
+ with errno set.
+ */
+extern const char ** prepare_spawn (const char * const *argv,
+ char **mem_to_free);
+
+/* Composes the command to be passed to CreateProcess().
+ ARGV must contain appropriately quoted arguments, as returned by
+ prepare_spawn.
+ Returns a freshly allocated string. In case of memory allocation failure,
+ NULL is returned, with errno set. */
+extern char * compose_command (const char * const *argv);
+
+/* Composes the block of memory that contains the environment variables.
+ ENVP must contain an environment (a NULL-terminated array of string of the
+ form VARIABLE=VALUE).
+ Returns a freshly allocated block of memory. In case of memory allocation
+ failure, NULL is returned, with errno set. */
+extern char * compose_envblock (const char * const *envp);
+
+
+/* This struct keeps track of which handles to pass to a subprocess, and with
+ which flags. All of the handles here are inheritable.
+ Regarding handle inheritance, see
+ <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/handle-inheritance> */
+struct inheritable_handles
+{
+ /* The number of occupied entries in the two arrays below.
+ 3 <= count <= allocated. */
+ size_t count;
+ /* The number of allocated entries in the two arrays below. */
+ size_t allocated;
+ /* handles[0..count-1] are the occupied entries.
+ handles[fd] is either INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE or an inheritable handle. */
+ HANDLE *handles;
+ /* flags[0..count-1] are the occupied entries.
+ flags[fd] is only relevant if handles[fd] != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE.
+ It is a bit mask consisting of:
+ - 32 for O_APPEND.
+ */
+ unsigned char *flags;
+};
+
+/* Initializes a set of inheritable handles, filling in all inheritable handles
+ assigned to file descriptors.
+ If DUPLICATE is true, the handles stored in the set are duplicates.
+ Returns 0 upon success. In case of failure, -1 is returned, with errno set.
+ */
+extern int init_inheritable_handles (struct inheritable_handles *inh_handles,
+ bool duplicate);
+
+/* Fills a set of inheritable handles into a STARTUPINFO for CreateProcess().
+ Returns 0 upon success. In case of failure, -1 is returned, with errno set.
+ */
+extern int compose_handles_block (const struct inheritable_handles *inh_handles,
+ STARTUPINFO *sinfo);
+
+/* Frees the memory held by a set of inheritable handles. */
+extern void free_inheritable_handles (struct inheritable_handles *inh_handles);
+
+
+/* Converts a CreateProcess() error code (retrieved through GetLastError()) to
+ an errno value. */
+extern int convert_CreateProcess_error (DWORD error);
+
+
+/* Creates a subprocess.
+ MODE is either P_WAIT or P_NOWAIT.
+ PROGNAME is the program to invoke.
+ ARGV is the NULL-terminated array of arguments, ARGV[0] being PROGNAME by
+ convention.
+ ENVP is the NULL-terminated set of environment variable assignments, or NULL
+ to inherit the initial environ variable assignments from the caller and
+ ignore all calls to putenv(), setenv(), unsetenv() done in the caller.
+ CURRDIR is the directory in which to start the program, or NULL to inherit
+ the working directory from the caller.
+ STDIN_HANDLE, STDOUT_HANDLE, STDERR_HANDLE are the handles to use for the
+ first three file descriptors in the callee process.
+ Returns
+ - 0 for success (if MODE is P_WAIT), or
+ - a handle that be passed to _cwait (on Windows) or waitpid (on OS/2), or
+ - -1 upon error, with errno set.
+ */
+extern intptr_t spawnpvech (int mode,
+ const char *progname, const char * const *argv,
+ const char * const *envp,
+ const char *currdir,
+ HANDLE stdin_handle, HANDLE stdout_handle,
+ HANDLE stderr_handle);
+
+#endif /* _WINDOWS_SPAWN_H */