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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 16:58:41 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 16:58:41 +0000 |
commit | e1908ae95dd4c9d19ee4dfabfc8bf8a7f85943fe (patch) | |
tree | f5cc731bedcac0fb7fe14d952e4581e749f8bb87 /src/libstdbuf.c | |
parent | Initial commit. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 9.4.upstream/9.4upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/src/libstdbuf.c b/src/libstdbuf.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16b65fa --- /dev/null +++ b/src/libstdbuf.c @@ -0,0 +1,150 @@ +/* libstdbuf -- a shared lib to preload to setup stdio buffering for a command + Copyright (C) 2009-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + 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/>. */ + +/* Written by Pádraig Brady. LD_PRELOAD idea from Brian Dessent. */ + +#include <config.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <stdint.h> +#include "system.h" + +/* Deactivate config.h's "rpl_"-prefixed definitions, since we don't + link gnulib here, and the replacements aren't needed. */ +#undef fprintf +#undef free +#undef malloc +#undef strtoumax + +/* Note currently for glibc (2.3.5) the following call does not change + the buffer size, and more problematically does not give any indication + that the new size request was ignored: + + setvbuf (stdout, nullptr, _IOFBF, 8192); + + The ISO C99 standard section 7.19.5.6 on the setvbuf function says: + + ... If buf is not a null pointer, the array it points to _may_ be used + instead of a buffer allocated by the setvbuf function and the argument + size specifies the size of the array; otherwise, size _may_ determine + the size of a buffer allocated by the setvbuf function. ... + + Obviously some interpret the above to mean setvbuf(....,size) + is only a hint from the application which I don't agree with. + + FreeBSD's libc seems more sensible in this regard. From the man page: + + The size argument may be given as zero to obtain deferred optimal-size + buffer allocation as usual. If it is not zero, then except for + unbuffered files, the buf argument should point to a buffer at least size + bytes long; this buffer will be used instead of the current buffer. (If + the size argument is not zero but buf is null, a buffer of the given size + will be allocated immediately, and released on close. This is an extension + to ANSI C; portable code should use a size of 0 with any null buffer.) + -------------------- + Another issue is that on glibc-2.7 the following doesn't buffer + the first write if it's greater than 1 byte. + + setvbuf(stdout,buf,_IOFBF,127); + + Now the POSIX standard says that "allocating a buffer of size bytes does + not necessarily imply that all of size bytes are used for the buffer area". + However I think it's just a buggy implementation due to the various + inconsistencies with write sizes and subsequent writes. */ + +static char const * +fileno_to_name (const int fd) +{ + char const *ret = nullptr; + + switch (fd) + { + case 0: + ret = "stdin"; + break; + case 1: + ret = "stdout"; + break; + case 2: + ret = "stderr"; + break; + default: + ret = "unknown"; + break; + } + + return ret; +} + +static void +apply_mode (FILE *stream, char const *mode) +{ + char *buf = nullptr; + int setvbuf_mode; + uintmax_t size = 0; + + if (*mode == '0') + setvbuf_mode = _IONBF; + else if (*mode == 'L') + setvbuf_mode = _IOLBF; /* FIXME: should we allow 1ML */ + else + { + setvbuf_mode = _IOFBF; + char *mode_end; + size = strtoumax (mode, &mode_end, 10); + if (size == 0 || *mode_end) + { + fprintf (stderr, _("invalid buffering mode %s for %s\n"), + mode, fileno_to_name (fileno (stream))); + return; + } + + buf = size <= SIZE_MAX ? malloc (size) : nullptr; + if (!buf) + { + /* We could defer the allocation to libc, however since + glibc currently ignores the combination of null buffer + with non zero size, we'll fail here. */ + fprintf (stderr, + _("failed to allocate a %" PRIuMAX + " byte stdio buffer\n"), + size); + return; + } + /* buf will be freed by fclose. */ + } + + if (setvbuf (stream, buf, setvbuf_mode, size) != 0) + { + fprintf (stderr, _("could not set buffering of %s to mode %s\n"), + fileno_to_name (fileno (stream)), mode); + free (buf); + } +} + +/* Use __attribute to avoid elision of __attribute__ on SUNPRO_C etc. */ +static void __attribute ((constructor)) +stdbuf (void) +{ + char *e_mode = getenv ("_STDBUF_E"); + char *i_mode = getenv ("_STDBUF_I"); + char *o_mode = getenv ("_STDBUF_O"); + if (e_mode) /* Do first so can write errors to stderr */ + apply_mode (stderr, e_mode); + if (i_mode) + apply_mode (stdin, i_mode); + if (o_mode) + apply_mode (stdout, o_mode); +} |