// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // +build darwin freebsd linux netbsd openbsd windows package os import ( "syscall" ) // StartProcess starts a new process with the program, arguments and attributes // specified by name, argv and attr. // // StartProcess is a low-level interface. The os/exec package provides // higher-level interfaces. // // If there is an error, it will be of type *PathError. func StartProcess(name string, argv []string, attr *ProcAttr) (p *Process, err error) { sysattr := &syscall.ProcAttr{ Dir: attr.Dir, Env: attr.Env, Sys: attr.Sys, } if sysattr.Env == nil { sysattr.Env = Environ() } for _, f := range attr.Files { sysattr.Files = append(sysattr.Files, f.Fd()) } pid, h, e := syscall.StartProcess(name, argv, sysattr) if e != nil { return nil, &PathError{"fork/exec", name, e} } return newProcess(pid, h), nil } // Kill causes the Process to exit immediately. func (p *Process) Kill() error { return p.Signal(Kill) } // TODO(rsc): Should os implement its own syscall.WaitStatus // wrapper with the methods, or is exposing the underlying one enough? // // TODO(rsc): Certainly need to have Rusage struct, // since syscall one might have different field types across // different OS. // Waitmsg stores the information about an exited process as reported by Wait. type Waitmsg struct { Pid int // The process's id. syscall.WaitStatus // System-dependent status info. Rusage *syscall.Rusage // System-dependent resource usage info. } // Convert i to decimal string. func itod(i int) string { if i == 0 { return "0" } u := uint64(i) if i < 0 { u = -u } // Assemble decimal in reverse order. var b [32]byte bp := len(b) for ; u > 0; u /= 10 { bp-- b[bp] = byte(u%10) + '0' } if i < 0 { bp-- b[bp] = '-' } return string(b[bp:]) } func (w *Waitmsg) String() string { if w == nil { return "" } // TODO(austin) Use signal names when possible? res := "" switch { case w.Exited(): res = "exit status " + itod(w.ExitStatus()) case w.Signaled(): res = "signal " + itod(int(w.Signal())) case w.Stopped(): res = "stop signal " + itod(int(w.StopSignal())) if w.StopSignal() == syscall.SIGTRAP && w.TrapCause() != 0 { res += " (trap " + itod(w.TrapCause()) + ")" } case w.Continued(): res = "continued" } if w.CoreDump() { res += " (core dumped)" } return res }