// -*- c++ -*- // Distributed under the BSD 2-Clause License. // See accompanying file LICENSE for details. #include "execute.h" #include #include #include #include #include #include /* https://blog.famzah.net/2009/11/20/a-much-faster-popen-and-system-implementation-for-linux/ https://github.com/famzah/popen-noshell/commit/1f9eaf4eeef348d1efe0f3c7fe8ab670653cfbb1 https://blog.famzah.net/2018/12/19/posix_spawn-performance-benchmarks-and-usage-examples/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4259629/what-is-the-difference-between-fork-and-vfork/5207945#5207945 */ namespace { int parent_waitpid(pid_t pid) { int status; if(waitpid(pid, &status, 0) != pid) { return 1; } return WEXITSTATUS(status); } } // namespace :: int execute(const std::string& command, const std::vector& args, bool verbose) { std::vector argv; argv.push_back(command.data()); for(const auto& arg : args) { argv.push_back(arg.data()); } argv.push_back(nullptr); if(verbose) { std::string cmd; for(const auto& arg : argv) { if(arg == nullptr) { break; } if(!cmd.empty()) { cmd += " "; } cmd += arg; } std::cout << cmd << "\n"; } #if 1 auto pid = vfork(); if(pid == 0) { execv(command.data(), (char**)argv.data()); std::cout << "Could not execute " << command << ": " << strerror(errno) << "\n"; _exit(1); // execv only returns if an error occurred } auto ret = parent_waitpid(pid); #elif 0 pid_t pid; if(posix_spawn(&pid, command.data(), nullptr, nullptr, (char**)argv.data(), nullptr)) { return 1; } auto ret = parent_waitpid(pid); #else auto ret = system(cmd.data()); #endif return ret; }