* Copyright (c) 1988 The Regents of the University of California.
* This code is derived from software written by Ken Arnold and
* published in UNIX Review, Vol. 6, No. 8.
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
* provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
* duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation,
* advertising materials, and other materials related to such
* distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed
* by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the
* University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
* from this software without specific prior written permission.
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
* WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
* From Id: popen.c,v 1.5 1994/01/15 20:43:43 vixie Exp
/* this came out of the ftpd sources; it's been modified to avoid the
* globbing stuff since we don't need it. also execvp instead of execv.
static char rcsid
[] = "$Header: $";
static char sccsid
[] = "@(#)popen.c 5.7 (Berkeley) 2/14/89";
* Special version of popen which avoids call to shell. This insures noone
* may create a pipe to a hidden program as a side effect of a list or dir
cron_popen(program
, type
)
extern char **glob(), **copyblk();
if (*type
!= 'r' && *type
!= 'w' || type
[1])
if ((fds
= getdtablesize()) <= 0)
if (!(pids
= (PID_T
*)malloc((u_int
)(fds
* sizeof(PID_T
)))))
bzero((char *)pids
, fds
* sizeof(PID_T
));
/* break up string into pieces */
for (argc
= 0, cp
= program
;; cp
= NULL
)
if (!(argv
[argc
++] = strtok(cp
, " \t\n")))
for (gargc
= argc
= 1; argv
[argc
]; argc
++) {
if (!(pop
= glob(argv
[argc
]))) { /* globbing failed */
argv
[argc
] = (char *)pop
; /* save to free later */
while (*pop
&& gargc
< 1000)
dup2(pdes
[1], 2); /* stderr, too! */
/* parent; assume fdopen can't fail... */
iop
= fdopen(pdes
[0], type
);
iop
= fdopen(pdes
[1], type
);
for (argc
= 1; argv
[argc
] != NULL
; argc
++) {
/* blkfree((char **)argv[argc]); */
free((char *)argv
[argc
]);
* pclose returns -1 if stream is not associated with a
* `popened' command, or, if already `pclosed'.
if (pids
== 0 || pids
[fdes
= fileno(iop
)] == 0)
omask
= sigblock(sigmask(SIGINT
)|sigmask(SIGQUIT
)|sigmask(SIGHUP
));
while ((pid
= wait(&stat_loc
)) != pids
[fdes
] && pid
!= -1)
return (pid
== -1 ? -1 : WEXITSTATUS(stat_loc
));