[PATCH v2 1/6] run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipe
From: Shawn O. Pearce <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:48:11
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Like .out, .err may now be set to a file descriptor > 0, which is a writable pipe/socket/file that the child's stderr will be redirected into. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <redacted> --- Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt | 2 +- run-command.c | 8 ++++++++ run-command.h | 2 +- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
index b26c281..a1280dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ stderr as follows: .in: The FD must be readable; it becomes child's stdin. .out: The FD must be writable; it becomes child's stdout. - .err > 0 is not supported. + .err: The FD must be writable; it becomes child's stderr. The specified FD is closed by start_command(), even if it fails to run the sub-process!
diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index cf2d8f7..bfd2312 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ fail_pipe: else if (need_err) { dup2(fderr[1], 2); close_pair(fderr); + } else if (cmd->err > 1) { + dup2(cmd->err, 2); + close(cmd->err); } if (cmd->no_stdout)
@@ -156,6 +159,9 @@ fail_pipe: } else if (need_err) { s2 = dup(2); dup2(fderr[1], 2); + } else if (cmd->err > 2) { + s2 = dup(2); + dup2(cmd->err, 2); } if (cmd->no_stdout) {
@@ -228,6 +234,8 @@ fail_pipe: if (need_err) close(fderr[1]); + else if (cmd->err) + close(cmd->err); return 0; }
diff --git a/run-command.h b/run-command.h
index fb34209..a29171a 100644
--- a/run-command.h
+++ b/run-command.h@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ struct child_process { * - Specify > 0 to set a channel to a particular FD as follows: * .in: a readable FD, becomes child's stdin * .out: a writable FD, becomes child's stdout/stderr - * .err > 0 not supported + * .err: a writable FD, becomes child's stderr * The specified FD is closed by start_command(), even in case * of errors! */
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