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PMPROCESSPIPE(3) Library Functions Manual PMPROCESSPIPE(3)
__pmProcessPipe, __pmProcessClosePipe - support for process execution
at the end of a pipe
#include "pmapi.h"
#include "libpcp.h"
int __pmProcessAddArg(__pmExecCtl_t **handle, const char *arg);
int __pmProcessPipe(__pmExecCtl_t **handle, const char *type, int
toss, FILE **fp);
int __pmProcessPipeClose(FILE *fp);
cc ... -lpcp
This documentation is intended for internal Performance Co-Pilot
(PCP) developer use.
These interfaces are not part of the PCP APIs that are guaranteed to
remain fixed across releases, and they may not work, or may provide
different semantics at some point in the future.
Within the libraries and applications of the Performance Co-Pilot
(PCP) these routines are provide a convenient and safe alternative to
popen(3) and pclose(3) for executing commands in a separate process
that is connected to the caller by a pipe.
Setting up the command and arguments is fully documented in
__pmProcessAddArg(3) and is identical to the procedure used to setup
__pmProcessExec(3).
Once all the command name and arguments have been registered calling
__pmProcessPipe uses a pipe(2), fork(2) and execvp(2) sequence to
execute the command.
The type argument needs to be ``r'' to read from the pipe, else ``w''
to write to the pipe.
The argument toss may be used to assign some or all of the standard
I/O streams for the command to /dev/null - specifically toss is
either PM_EXEC_TOSS_NONE to keep all I/O streams the same as the
parent process, else the bit-wise or of PM_EXEC_TOSS_STDIN and/or
PM_EXEC_TOSS_STDOUT and/or PM_EXEC_TOSS_STDERR to reassign stdin,
stdout and stderr respectively. PM_EXEC_TOSS_ALL is a convenience
macro equivalent to PM_EXEC_TOSS_STDIN | PM_EXEC_TOSS_STDOUT |
PM_EXEC_TOSS_STDERR.
Obviously some combinations of argument values make no sense, e.g.
type equal to ``r'' and PM_EXEC_TOSS_STDOUT set in toss or type equal
to ``w'' and PM_EXEC_TOSS_STDIN set in type.
__pmProcessPipe returns a standard I/O stream for the pipe via the fp
argument.
Once the caller determines all the work has been done,
__pmProcessPipeClose should be called.
Nested calling of __pmProcessExec(3) and/or __pmProcessPipe is not
allowed. Once __pmProcessAddArg(3) is called with handle set to NULL
to start the registration and execution sequence any attempt to start
a second registration sequence will be blocked until the first one is
completed by calling __pmProcessExec(3) or __pmProcessPipe.
execvp(2), fork(2), pclose(2), pipe(2), popen(2),
__pmProcessAddArg(3), __pmProcessExec(3) and waitpid(3).
If successful __pmProcessPipe returns 0. Other conditions are rare
(e.g. alloc failure) and are indicated by a return value that can be
decoded using pmErrStr(3).
The return status from __pmProcessPipeClose is a little more
complicated. If the command completes with an exit status of 0, the
return value is 0. Return values less than 0 indicate a more serious
error and the value can be decoded using pmErrStr(3). If the command
was executed, but did not exit with status of 0 then the return value
is an encoding of the waitpid(2) status as follows: 2000 if something
unknown went wrong, else if 1000 + signal number of the command was
killed or stopped by a signal, else the exit status of the command.
This page is part of the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) project.
Information about the project can be found at ⟨http://www.pcp.io/⟩.
If you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
pcp@groups.io. This page was obtained from the project's upstream
Git repository ⟨https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git⟩ on
2020-07-14. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that
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