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* This code is derived from software written by Ken Arnold and
* published in UNIX Review, Vol. 6, No. 8.
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#if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
static char sccsid
[] = "@(#)popen.c 8.3 (Berkeley) 5/3/95";
#endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
const char *command
, *type
;
int pdes
[2], pid
, twoway
;
if (socketpair(AF_UNIX
, SOCK_STREAM
, 0, pdes
) < 0)
if (*type
!= 'r' && *type
!= 'w' || type
[1] ||
if ((cur
= malloc(sizeof(struct pid
))) == NULL
)
if (pdes
[1] != STDOUT_FILENO
) {
(void)dup2(pdes
[1], STDOUT_FILENO
);
if (twoway
&& (pdes
[1] != STDIN_FILENO
))
(void)dup2(pdes
[1], STDIN_FILENO
);
if (pdes
[0] != STDIN_FILENO
) {
(void)dup2(pdes
[0], STDIN_FILENO
);
execl(_PATH_BSHELL
, "sh", "-c", command
, NULL
);
/* Parent; assume fdopen can't fail. */
iop
= fdopen(pdes
[0], type
);
iop
= fdopen(pdes
[1], type
);
/* Link into list of file descriptors. */
* Pclose returns -1 if stream is not associated with a `popened' command,
* if already `pclosed', or waitpid returns an error.
register struct pid
*cur
, *last
;
/* Find the appropriate file pointer. */
for (last
= NULL
, cur
= pidlist
; cur
; last
= cur
, cur
= cur
->next
)
pid
= waitpid(cur
->pid
, &pstat
, 0);
} while (pid
== -1 && errno
== EINTR
);
/* Remove the entry from the linked list. */
return (pid
== -1 ? -1 : pstat
);