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tests: port large-fd POSIX spawn tests to OS X Problem reported by Daiki Ueno in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-06/msg00031.html>. * tests/test-posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose.c: * tests/test-posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2.c: * tests/test-posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen.c: Include <limits.h>, for OPEN_MAX, if available. (big_fd): New static function. (main): Use it.
author Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
date Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:10:21 -0700 (2013-06-11)
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1 /* Creation of autonomous subprocesses.
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2 Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2008-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001.
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5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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8 (at your option) any later version.
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10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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13 GNU General Public License for more details.
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15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
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18 #ifndef _EXECUTE_H
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19 #define _EXECUTE_H
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21 #include <stdbool.h>
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23 /* Execute a command, optionally redirecting any of the three standard file
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24 descriptors to /dev/null. Return its exit code.
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25 If it didn't terminate correctly, exit if exit_on_error is true, otherwise
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26 return 127.
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27 If ignore_sigpipe is true, consider a subprocess termination due to SIGPIPE
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28 as equivalent to a success. This is suitable for processes whose only
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29 purpose is to write to standard output.
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30 If slave_process is true, the child process will be terminated when its
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31 creator receives a catchable fatal signal.
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32 If termsigp is not NULL, *termsig will be set to the signal that terminated
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33 the subprocess (if supported by the platform: not on native Windows
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34 platforms), otherwise 0.
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35 It is recommended that no signal is blocked or ignored while execute()
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36 is called. See pipe.h for the reason. */
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37 extern int execute (const char *progname,
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38 const char *prog_path, char **prog_argv,
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39 bool ignore_sigpipe,
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40 bool null_stdin, bool null_stdout, bool null_stderr,
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41 bool slave_process, bool exit_on_error,
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42 int *termsigp);
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44 #endif /* _EXECUTE_H */