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PMPROCESSPIPE(3) Library Functions Manual PMPROCESSPIPE(3)
__pmProcessPipe, __pmProcessPipeClose - support for process
execution at the end of a pipe
#include "pmapi.h"
#include "libpcp.h"
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.
If successful __pmProcessPipe returns 0. Other conditions are
rare (e.g. memory allocation 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.
execvp(2), fork(2), pclose(2), pipe(2), popen(2),
__pmProcessAddArg(3), __pmProcessExec(3) and waitpid(3).
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 [email protected]. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git⟩ on 2024-06-14.
(At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
in the repository was 2024-06-14.) If you discover any rendering
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