minix/external/bsd/kyua-cli/dist/utils/process/child.hpp

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/// \file utils/process/child.hpp
/// Spawning and manipulation of children processes.
///
/// The child module provides a set of functions to spawn subprocesses with
/// different settings, and the corresponding set of classes to interact with
/// said subprocesses.  The interfaces to fork subprocesses are very simplified
/// and only provide the minimum functionality required by the rest of the
/// project.
///
/// Be aware that the semantics of the fork and wait methods exposed by this
/// module are slightly different from that of the native calls.  Any process
/// spawned by fork here will be isolated in its own process group; once any of
/// such children processes is awaited for, its whole process group will be
/// terminated.  This is the semantics we want in the above layers to ensure
/// that test programs (and, for that matter, external utilities) do not leak
/// subprocesses on the system.

#if !defined(UTILS_PROCESS_CHILD_HPP)
#define UTILS_PROCESS_CHILD_HPP

#include <istream>
#include <memory>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include "utils/fs/path.hpp"
#include "utils/noncopyable.hpp"
#include "utils/process/status.hpp"

namespace utils {
namespace process {


/// Arguments to a program, without the program name.
typedef std::vector< std::string > args_vector;


/// Child process spawner and controller.
class child : noncopyable {
    struct impl;

    /// Pointer to the shared internal implementation.
    std::auto_ptr< impl > _pimpl;

    static std::auto_ptr< child > fork_capture_aux(void);

    static std::auto_ptr< child > fork_files_aux(const fs::path&,
                                                 const fs::path&);

    explicit child(impl *);

public:
    ~child(void);

    template< typename Hook >
    static std::auto_ptr< child > fork_capture(Hook);
    std::istream& output(void);

    template< typename Hook >
    static std::auto_ptr< child > fork_files(Hook, const fs::path&,
                                             const fs::path&);

    static std::auto_ptr< child > spawn_capture(
        const fs::path&, const args_vector&);
    static std::auto_ptr< child > spawn_files(
        const fs::path&, const args_vector&, const fs::path&, const fs::path&);

    int pid(void) const;

    status wait(void);
};


}  // namespace process
}  // namespace utils

#endif  // !defined(UTILS_PROCESS_CHILD_HPP)