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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-09 13:34:27 +0000
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+#ifndef RUN_COMMAND_H
+#define RUN_COMMAND_H
+
+#include "thread-utils.h"
+
+#include "strvec.h"
+
+/**
+ * The run-command API offers a versatile tool to run sub-processes with
+ * redirected input and output as well as with a modified environment
+ * and an alternate current directory.
+ *
+ * A similar API offers the capability to run a function asynchronously,
+ * which is primarily used to capture the output that the function
+ * produces in the caller in order to process it.
+ */
+
+
+/**
+ * This describes the arguments, redirections, and environment of a
+ * command to run in a sub-process.
+ *
+ * The caller:
+ *
+ * 1. allocates and clears (using child_process_init() or
+ * CHILD_PROCESS_INIT) a struct child_process variable;
+ * 2. initializes the members;
+ * 3. calls start_command();
+ * 4. processes the data;
+ * 5. closes file descriptors (if necessary; see below);
+ * 6. calls finish_command().
+ *
+ * Special forms of redirection are available by setting these members
+ * to 1:
+ *
+ * .no_stdin, .no_stdout, .no_stderr: The respective channel is
+ * redirected to /dev/null.
+ *
+ * .stdout_to_stderr: stdout of the child is redirected to its
+ * stderr. This happens after stderr is itself redirected.
+ * So stdout will follow stderr to wherever it is
+ * redirected.
+ */
+struct child_process {
+
+ /**
+ * The .args is a `struct strvec', use that API to manipulate
+ * it, e.g. strvec_pushv() to add an existing "const char **"
+ * vector.
+ *
+ * If the command to run is a git command, set the first
+ * element in the strvec to the command name without the
+ * 'git-' prefix and set .git_cmd = 1.
+ *
+ * The memory in .args will be cleaned up automatically during
+ * `finish_command` (or during `start_command` when it is unsuccessful).
+ */
+ struct strvec args;
+
+ /**
+ * Like .args the .env is a `struct strvec'.
+ *
+ * To modify the environment of the sub-process, specify an array of
+ * environment settings. Each string in the array manipulates the
+ * environment.
+ *
+ * - If the string is of the form "VAR=value", i.e. it contains '='
+ * the variable is added to the child process's environment.
+ *
+ * - If the string does not contain '=', it names an environment
+ * variable that will be removed from the child process's environment.
+ *
+ * The memory in .env will be cleaned up automatically during
+ * `finish_command` (or during `start_command` when it is unsuccessful).
+ */
+ struct strvec env;
+ pid_t pid;
+
+ int trace2_child_id;
+ uint64_t trace2_child_us_start;
+ const char *trace2_child_class;
+ const char *trace2_hook_name;
+
+ /*
+ * Using .in, .out, .err:
+ * - Specify 0 for no redirections. No new file descriptor is allocated.
+ * (child inherits stdin, stdout, stderr from parent).
+ * - Specify -1 to have a pipe allocated as follows:
+ * .in: returns the writable pipe end; parent writes to it,
+ * the readable pipe end becomes child's stdin
+ * .out, .err: returns the readable pipe end; parent reads from
+ * it, the writable pipe end becomes child's stdout/stderr
+ * The caller of start_command() must close the returned FDs
+ * after it has completed reading from/writing to it!
+ * - Specify > 0 to set a channel to a particular FD as follows:
+ * .in: a readable FD, becomes child's stdin
+ * .out: a writable FD, becomes child's stdout/stderr
+ * .err: a writable FD, becomes child's stderr
+ * The specified FD is closed by start_command(), even in case
+ * of errors!
+ */
+ int in;
+ int out;
+ int err;
+
+ /**
+ * To specify a new initial working directory for the sub-process,
+ * specify it in the .dir member.
+ */
+ const char *dir;
+
+ unsigned no_stdin:1;
+ unsigned no_stdout:1;
+ unsigned no_stderr:1;
+ unsigned git_cmd:1; /* if this is to be git sub-command */
+
+ /**
+ * If the program cannot be found, the functions return -1 and set
+ * errno to ENOENT. Normally, an error message is printed, but if
+ * .silent_exec_failure is set to 1, no message is printed for this
+ * special error condition.
+ */
+ unsigned silent_exec_failure:1;
+
+ /**
+ * Run the command from argv[0] using a shell (but note that we may
+ * still optimize out the shell call if the command contains no
+ * metacharacters). Note that further arguments to the command in
+ * argv[1], etc, do not need to be shell-quoted.
+ */
+ unsigned use_shell:1;
+
+ /**
+ * Release any open file handles to the object store before running
+ * the command; This is necessary e.g. when the spawned process may
+ * want to repack because that would delete `.pack` files (and on
+ * Windows, you cannot delete files that are still in use).
+ */
+ unsigned close_object_store:1;
+
+ unsigned stdout_to_stderr:1;
+ unsigned clean_on_exit:1;
+ unsigned wait_after_clean:1;
+ void (*clean_on_exit_handler)(struct child_process *process);
+};
+
+#define CHILD_PROCESS_INIT { \
+ .args = STRVEC_INIT, \
+ .env = STRVEC_INIT, \
+}
+
+/**
+ * The functions: start_command, finish_command, run_command do the following:
+ *
+ * - If a system call failed, errno is set and -1 is returned. A diagnostic
+ * is printed.
+ *
+ * - If the program was not found, then -1 is returned and errno is set to
+ * ENOENT; a diagnostic is printed only if .silent_exec_failure is 0.
+ *
+ * - Otherwise, the program is run. If it terminates regularly, its exit
+ * code is returned. No diagnostic is printed, even if the exit code is
+ * non-zero.
+ *
+ * - If the program terminated due to a signal, then the return value is the
+ * signal number + 128, ie. the same value that a POSIX shell's $? would
+ * report. A diagnostic is printed.
+ *
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Initialize a struct child_process variable.
+ */
+void child_process_init(struct child_process *);
+
+/**
+ * Release the memory associated with the struct child_process.
+ * Most users of the run-command API don't need to call this
+ * function explicitly because `start_command` invokes it on
+ * failure and `finish_command` calls it automatically already.
+ */
+void child_process_clear(struct child_process *);
+
+int is_executable(const char *name);
+
+/**
+ * Check if the command exists on $PATH. This emulates the path search that
+ * execvp would perform, without actually executing the command so it
+ * can be used before fork() to prepare to run a command using
+ * execve() or after execvp() to diagnose why it failed.
+ *
+ * The caller should ensure that command contains no directory separators.
+ *
+ * Returns 1 if it is found in $PATH or 0 if the command could not be found.
+ */
+int exists_in_PATH(const char *command);
+
+/**
+ * Start a sub-process. Takes a pointer to a `struct child_process`
+ * that specifies the details and returns pipe FDs (if requested).
+ * See below for details.
+ */
+int start_command(struct child_process *);
+
+/**
+ * Wait for the completion of a sub-process that was started with
+ * start_command().
+ */
+int finish_command(struct child_process *);
+
+int finish_command_in_signal(struct child_process *);
+
+/**
+ * A convenience function that encapsulates a sequence of
+ * start_command() followed by finish_command(). Takes a pointer
+ * to a `struct child_process` that specifies the details.
+ */
+int run_command(struct child_process *);
+
+/*
+ * Trigger an auto-gc
+ */
+int run_auto_maintenance(int quiet);
+
+/**
+ * Execute the given command, sending "in" to its stdin, and capturing its
+ * stdout and stderr in the "out" and "err" strbufs. Any of the three may
+ * be NULL to skip processing.
+ *
+ * Returns -1 if starting the command fails or reading fails, and otherwise
+ * returns the exit code of the command. Any output collected in the
+ * buffers is kept even if the command returns a non-zero exit. The hint fields
+ * gives starting sizes for the strbuf allocations.
+ *
+ * The fields of "cmd" should be set up as they would for a normal run_command
+ * invocation. But note that there is no need to set the in, out, or err
+ * fields; pipe_command handles that automatically.
+ */
+int pipe_command(struct child_process *cmd,
+ const char *in, size_t in_len,
+ struct strbuf *out, size_t out_hint,
+ struct strbuf *err, size_t err_hint);
+
+/**
+ * Convenience wrapper around pipe_command for the common case
+ * of capturing only stdout.
+ */
+static inline int capture_command(struct child_process *cmd,
+ struct strbuf *out,
+ size_t hint)
+{
+ return pipe_command(cmd, NULL, 0, out, hint, NULL, 0);
+}
+
+/*
+ * The purpose of the following functions is to feed a pipe by running
+ * a function asynchronously and providing output that the caller reads.
+ *
+ * It is expected that no synchronization and mutual exclusion between
+ * the caller and the feed function is necessary so that the function
+ * can run in a thread without interfering with the caller.
+ *
+ * The caller:
+ *
+ * 1. allocates and clears (memset(&asy, 0, sizeof(asy));) a
+ * struct async variable;
+ * 2. initializes .proc and .data;
+ * 3. calls start_async();
+ * 4. processes communicates with proc through .in and .out;
+ * 5. closes .in and .out;
+ * 6. calls finish_async().
+ *
+ * There are serious restrictions on what the asynchronous function can do
+ * because this facility is implemented by a thread in the same address
+ * space on most platforms (when pthreads is available), but by a pipe to
+ * a forked process otherwise:
+ *
+ * - It cannot change the program's state (global variables, environment,
+ * etc.) in a way that the caller notices; in other words, .in and .out
+ * are the only communication channels to the caller.
+ *
+ * - It must not change the program's state that the caller of the
+ * facility also uses.
+ *
+ */
+struct async {
+
+ /**
+ * The function pointer in .proc has the following signature:
+ *
+ * int proc(int in, int out, void *data);
+ *
+ * - in, out specifies a set of file descriptors to which the function
+ * must read/write the data that it needs/produces. The function
+ * *must* close these descriptors before it returns. A descriptor
+ * may be -1 if the caller did not configure a descriptor for that
+ * direction.
+ *
+ * - data is the value that the caller has specified in the .data member
+ * of struct async.
+ *
+ * - The return value of the function is 0 on success and non-zero
+ * on failure. If the function indicates failure, finish_async() will
+ * report failure as well.
+ *
+ */
+ int (*proc)(int in, int out, void *data);
+
+ void *data;
+
+ /**
+ * The members .in, .out are used to provide a set of fd's for
+ * communication between the caller and the callee as follows:
+ *
+ * - Specify 0 to have no file descriptor passed. The callee will
+ * receive -1 in the corresponding argument.
+ *
+ * - Specify < 0 to have a pipe allocated; start_async() replaces
+ * with the pipe FD in the following way:
+ *
+ * .in: Returns the writable pipe end into which the caller
+ * writes; the readable end of the pipe becomes the function's
+ * in argument.
+ *
+ * .out: Returns the readable pipe end from which the caller
+ * reads; the writable end of the pipe becomes the function's
+ * out argument.
+ *
+ * The caller of start_async() must close the returned FDs after it
+ * has completed reading from/writing from them.
+ *
+ * - Specify a file descriptor > 0 to be used by the function:
+ *
+ * .in: The FD must be readable; it becomes the function's in.
+ * .out: The FD must be writable; it becomes the function's out.
+ *
+ * The specified FD is closed by start_async(), even if it fails to
+ * run the function.
+ */
+ int in; /* caller writes here and closes it */
+ int out; /* caller reads from here and closes it */
+#ifdef NO_PTHREADS
+ pid_t pid;
+#else
+ pthread_t tid;
+ int proc_in;
+ int proc_out;
+#endif
+ int isolate_sigpipe;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Run a function asynchronously. Takes a pointer to a `struct
+ * async` that specifies the details and returns a set of pipe FDs
+ * for communication with the function. See below for details.
+ */
+int start_async(struct async *async);
+
+/**
+ * Wait for the completion of an asynchronous function that was
+ * started with start_async().
+ */
+int finish_async(struct async *async);
+
+int in_async(void);
+int async_with_fork(void);
+void check_pipe(int err);
+
+/**
+ * This callback should initialize the child process and preload the
+ * error channel if desired. The preloading of is useful if you want to
+ * have a message printed directly before the output of the child process.
+ * pp_cb is the callback cookie as passed to run_processes_parallel.
+ * You can store a child process specific callback cookie in pp_task_cb.
+ *
+ * See run_processes_parallel() below for a discussion of the "struct
+ * strbuf *out" parameter.
+ *
+ * Even after returning 0 to indicate that there are no more processes,
+ * this function will be called again until there are no more running
+ * child processes.
+ *
+ * Return 1 if the next child is ready to run.
+ * Return 0 if there are currently no more tasks to be processed.
+ * To send a signal to other child processes for abortion,
+ * return the negative signal number.
+ */
+typedef int (*get_next_task_fn)(struct child_process *cp,
+ struct strbuf *out,
+ void *pp_cb,
+ void **pp_task_cb);
+
+/**
+ * This callback is called whenever there are problems starting
+ * a new process.
+ *
+ * See run_processes_parallel() below for a discussion of the "struct
+ * strbuf *out" parameter.
+ *
+ * pp_cb is the callback cookie as passed into run_processes_parallel,
+ * pp_task_cb is the callback cookie as passed into get_next_task_fn.
+ *
+ * Return 0 to continue the parallel processing. To abort return non zero.
+ * To send a signal to other child processes for abortion, return
+ * the negative signal number.
+ */
+typedef int (*start_failure_fn)(struct strbuf *out,
+ void *pp_cb,
+ void *pp_task_cb);
+
+/**
+ * This callback is called on every child process that finished processing.
+ *
+ * See run_processes_parallel() below for a discussion of the "struct
+ * strbuf *out" parameter.
+ *
+ * pp_cb is the callback cookie as passed into run_processes_parallel,
+ * pp_task_cb is the callback cookie as passed into get_next_task_fn.
+ *
+ * Return 0 to continue the parallel processing. To abort return non zero.
+ * To send a signal to other child processes for abortion, return
+ * the negative signal number.
+ */
+typedef int (*task_finished_fn)(int result,
+ struct strbuf *out,
+ void *pp_cb,
+ void *pp_task_cb);
+
+/**
+ * Option used by run_processes_parallel(), { 0 }-initialized means no
+ * options.
+ */
+struct run_process_parallel_opts
+{
+ /**
+ * tr2_category & tr2_label: sets the trace2 category and label for
+ * logging. These must either be unset, or both of them must be set.
+ */
+ const char *tr2_category;
+ const char *tr2_label;
+
+ /**
+ * processes: see 'processes' in run_processes_parallel() below.
+ */
+ size_t processes;
+
+ /**
+ * ungroup: see 'ungroup' in run_processes_parallel() below.
+ */
+ unsigned int ungroup:1;
+
+ /**
+ * get_next_task: See get_next_task_fn() above. This must be
+ * specified.
+ */
+ get_next_task_fn get_next_task;
+
+ /**
+ * start_failure: See start_failure_fn() above. This can be
+ * NULL to omit any special handling.
+ */
+ start_failure_fn start_failure;
+
+ /**
+ * task_finished: See task_finished_fn() above. This can be
+ * NULL to omit any special handling.
+ */
+ task_finished_fn task_finished;
+
+ /**
+ * data: user data, will be passed as "pp_cb" to the callback
+ * parameters.
+ */
+ void *data;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Options are passed via the "struct run_process_parallel_opts" above.
+ *
+ * Runs N 'processes' at the same time. Whenever a process can be
+ * started, the callback opts.get_next_task is called to obtain the data
+ * required to start another child process.
+ *
+ * The children started via this function run in parallel. Their output
+ * (both stdout and stderr) is routed to stderr in a manner that output
+ * from different tasks does not interleave (but see "ungroup" below).
+ *
+ * If the "ungroup" option isn't specified, the API will set the
+ * "stdout_to_stderr" parameter in "struct child_process" and provide
+ * the callbacks with a "struct strbuf *out" parameter to write output
+ * to. In this case the callbacks must not write to stdout or
+ * stderr as such output will mess up the output of the other parallel
+ * processes. If "ungroup" option is specified callbacks will get a
+ * NULL "struct strbuf *out" parameter, and are responsible for
+ * emitting their own output, including dealing with any race
+ * conditions due to writing in parallel to stdout and stderr.
+ */
+void run_processes_parallel(const struct run_process_parallel_opts *opts);
+
+/**
+ * Convenience function which prepares env for a command to be run in a
+ * new repo. This adds all GIT_* environment variables to env with the
+ * exception of GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS and GIT_CONFIG_COUNT (which cause the
+ * corresponding environment variables to be unset in the subprocess) and adds
+ * an environment variable pointing to new_git_dir. See local_repo_env in
+ * environment.h for more information.
+ */
+void prepare_other_repo_env(struct strvec *env, const char *new_git_dir);
+
+/**
+ * Possible return values for start_bg_command().
+ */
+enum start_bg_result {
+ /* child process is "ready" */
+ SBGR_READY = 0,
+
+ /* child process could not be started */
+ SBGR_ERROR,
+
+ /* callback error when testing for "ready" */
+ SBGR_CB_ERROR,
+
+ /* timeout expired waiting for child to become "ready" */
+ SBGR_TIMEOUT,
+
+ /* child process exited or was signalled before becomming "ready" */
+ SBGR_DIED,
+};
+
+/**
+ * Callback used by start_bg_command() to ask whether the
+ * child process is ready or needs more time to become "ready".
+ *
+ * The callback will receive the cmd and cb_data arguments given to
+ * start_bg_command().
+ *
+ * Returns 1 is child needs more time (subject to the requested timeout).
+ * Returns 0 if child is "ready".
+ * Returns -1 on any error and cause start_bg_command() to also error out.
+ */
+typedef int(start_bg_wait_cb)(const struct child_process *cmd, void *cb_data);
+
+/**
+ * Start a command in the background. Wait long enough for the child
+ * to become "ready" (as defined by the provided callback). Capture
+ * immediate errors (like failure to start) and any immediate exit
+ * status (such as a shutdown/signal before the child became "ready")
+ * and return this like start_command().
+ *
+ * We run a custom wait loop using the provided callback to wait for
+ * the child to start and become "ready". This is limited by the given
+ * timeout value.
+ *
+ * If the child does successfully start and become "ready", we orphan
+ * it into the background.
+ *
+ * The caller must not call finish_command().
+ *
+ * The opaque cb_data argument will be forwarded to the callback for
+ * any instance data that it might require. This may be NULL.
+ */
+enum start_bg_result start_bg_command(struct child_process *cmd,
+ start_bg_wait_cb *wait_cb,
+ void *cb_data,
+ unsigned int timeout_sec);
+
+int sane_execvp(const char *file, char *const argv[]);
+
+#endif