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- ## Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
- ##
- ## This file is part of Octave.
- ##
- ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
- ## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
- ## 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: [IN, OUT, PID] = popen2 (COMMAND, ARGS)
- ##
- ## Start a subprocess with two-way communication. COMMAND specifies
- ## the name of the command to start. ARGS is an array of strings
- ## containing options for COMMAND. IN and out are the file ids of the
- ## input and streams for the subprocess, and PID is the process id of
- ## the subprocess, or -1 if COMMAND could not be executed.
- ##
- ## Example:
- ##
- ## [in, out, pid] = popen2 ("sort", "-nr");
- ## fputs (in, "these\n");
- ## fputs (in, "are\n");
- ## fputs (in, "some\n");
- ## fputs (in, "strings\n");
- ## fclose (in);
- ## while (isstr (s = fgets (out)))
- ## fputs (stdout, s);
- ## endwhile
- ## fclose (out);
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function [in, out, pid] = popen2 (command, args)
-
- in = -1;
- out = -1;
- pid = -1;
-
- if (nargin == 1 || nargin == 2)
-
- if (nargin == 1)
- args = "";
- endif
-
- if (isstr (command))
-
- [stdin_pipe, stdin_status] = pipe ();
- [stdout_pipe, stdout_status] = pipe ();
-
- if (stdin_status == 0 && stdout_status == 0)
-
- pid = fork ();
-
- if (pid == 0)
-
- fclose (stdin_pipe (2));
- fclose (stdout_pipe (1));
-
- dup2 (stdin_pipe (1), stdin);
- fclose (stdin_pipe (1));
-
- dup2 (stdout_pipe (2), stdout);
- fclose (stdout_pipe (2));
-
- if (exec (command, args) < 0)
- error ("popen2: unable to start process `%s'", command);
- exit (0);
- endif
-
- elseif (pid)
-
- fclose (stdin_pipe (1));
- fclose (stdout_pipe (2));
-
- if (fcntl (stdout_pipe (1), __F_SETFL__, __O_NONBLOCK__) < 0)
- error ("popen2: error setting file mode");
- else
- in = stdin_pipe (2);
- out = stdout_pipe (1);
- endif
-
- elseif (pid < 0)
- error ("popen2: fork failed -- unable to create child process");
- endif
- else
- error ("popen2: pipe creation failed");
- endif
- else
- error ("popen2: file name must be a string");
- endif
- else
- usage ("[in, out, pid] = popen2 (command, args)");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-