// 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. package os import ( "runtime" "syscall" ) // StartProcess starts a new process with the program, arguments and attributes // specified by name, argv and attr. func StartProcess(name string, argv []string, attr *ProcAttr) (p *Process, err Error) { sysattr := &syscall.ProcAttr{ Dir: attr.Dir, Env: attr.Env, } // Create array of integer (system) fds. intfd := make([]int, len(attr.Files)) for i, f := range attr.Files { if f == nil { intfd[i] = -1 } else { intfd[i] = f.Fd() } } sysattr.Files = intfd pid, h, e := syscall.StartProcess(name, argv, sysattr) if iserror(e) { return nil, &PathError{"fork/exec", name, e} } return newProcess(pid, h), nil } // Exec replaces the current process with an execution of the // named binary, with arguments argv and environment envv. // If successful, Exec never returns. If it fails, it returns an Error. // ForkExec is almost always a better way to execute a program. func Exec(name string, argv []string, envv []string) Error { e := syscall.Exec(name, argv, envv) if iserror(e) { return &PathError{"exec", name, e} } return nil } // Waitmsg stores the information about an exited process as reported by Wait. type Waitmsg syscall.Waitmsg // Wait waits for the Process to exit or stop, and then returns a // Waitmsg describing its status and an Error, if any. The options // (WNOHANG etc.) affect the behavior of the Wait call. func (p *Process) Wait(options int) (w *Waitmsg, err Error) { var waitmsg syscall.Waitmsg if p.Pid == -1 { return nil, EINVAL } for true { err = syscall.Await(&waitmsg) if iserror(err) { return nil, NewSyscallError("wait", err) } if waitmsg.Pid == p.Pid { break } } return (*Waitmsg)(&waitmsg), nil } // Wait waits for process pid to exit or stop, and then returns a // Waitmsg describing its status and an Error, if any. The options // (WNOHANG etc.) affect the behavior of the Wait call. // Wait is equivalent to calling FindProcess and then Wait // and Release on the result. func Wait(pid int, options int) (w *Waitmsg, err Error) { p, e := FindProcess(pid) if e != nil { return nil, e } defer p.Release() return p.Wait(options) } // Release releases any resources associated with the Process. func (p *Process) Release() Error { // NOOP for Plan 9. p.Pid = -1 // no need for a finalizer anymore runtime.SetFinalizer(p, nil) return nil } // FindProcess looks for a running process by its pid. // The Process it returns can be used to obtain information // about the underlying operating system process. func FindProcess(pid int) (p *Process, err Error) { // NOOP for Plan 9. return newProcess(pid, 0), nil } func (w Waitmsg) String() string { return "exit status: " + w.Msg }