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koreader/popen-noshell/popen_noshell.h

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/*
* popen_noshell: A faster implementation of popen() and system() for Linux.
* Copyright (c) 2009 Ivan Zahariev (famzah)
* Version: 1.0
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; under version 3 of the License.
*
* 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
*/
#ifndef POPEN_NOSHELL_H
#define POPEN_NOSHELL_H
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
/* stack for the child process before it does exec() */
#define POPEN_NOSHELL_STACK_SIZE 8*1024*1024 /* currently most Linux distros set this to 8 MBytes */
/* constants to use with popen_noshell_set_fork_mode() */
#define POPEN_NOSHELL_MODE_CLONE 0 /* default, faster */
#define POPEN_NOSHELL_MODE_FORK 1 /* slower */
struct popen_noshell_clone_arg {
int pipefd_0;
int pipefd_1;
int read_pipe;
int ignore_stderr;
const char *file;
const char * const *argv;
};
struct popen_noshell_pass_to_pclose {
FILE *fp;
pid_t pid;
int free_clone_mem;
void *stack;
struct popen_noshell_clone_arg *func_args;
};
/***************************
* PUBLIC FUNCTIONS FOLLOW *
***************************/
/* this is the native function call */
FILE *popen_noshell(const char *file, const char * const *argv, const char *type, struct popen_noshell_pass_to_pclose *pclose_arg, int ignore_stderr);
/* more insecure, but more compatible with popen() */
FILE *popen_noshell_compat(const char *command, const char *type, struct popen_noshell_pass_to_pclose *pclose_arg);
/* call this when you have finished reading and writing from/to the child process */
int pclose_noshell(struct popen_noshell_pass_to_pclose *arg); /* the pclose() equivalent */
/* this is the innovative faster vmfork() which shares memory with the parent and is very resource-light; see the source code for documentation */
pid_t popen_noshell_vmfork(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, void **memory_to_free_on_child_exit);
/* used only for benchmarking purposes */
void popen_noshell_set_fork_mode(int mode);
#endif