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- ## Copyright (C) 1997 Klaus Gebhardt
- ##
- ## 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 output 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: Klaus Gebhardt, 1997
-
- function [in, out, pid] = popen2 (command, args)
-
- in = -1;
- out = -1;
- pid = -1;
-
- if (nargin == 1 || nargin == 2)
-
- if (isstr (command))
-
- [r_pipe, r_status] = _pipe ();
- [w_pipe, w_status] = _pipe ();
-
- if ((r_status != -1) && (w_status != -1))
-
- r_parent_end = r_pipe(1);
- r_child_end = r_pipe(2);
- _fcntl (r_parent_end, F_SETFD, 1);
- r_org = _dup (1);
-
- w_parent_end = w_pipe(2);
- w_child_end = w_pipe(1);
- _fcntl (w_parent_end, F_SETFD, 1);
- w_org = _dup (0);
-
- if ((r_org != -1) && (w_org != -1))
-
- _dup2 (r_child_end, 1); _close (r_child_end); r_child_end = -1;
- _dup2 (w_child_end, 0); _close (w_child_end); w_child_end = -1;
-
- if (nargin == 1)
- pid = spawn ("nowait", command);
- else
- pid = spawn ("nowait", command, args);
- endif
-
- _dup2 (r_org, 1); _close (r_org);
- _dup2 (w_org, 0); _close (w_org);
- endif
-
- if (r_child_end != -1)
- _close (r_child_end);
- endif
-
- if (w_child_end != -1)
- _close (w_child_end);
- endif
-
- if (pid < 0)
- _close (r_parent_end);
- _close (w_parent_end);
- error ("popen2: unable to start process `%s'", command);
- else
- out = _fdopen (r_parent_end, "r");
- in = _fdopen (w_parent_end, "w");
- endif
-
- else
-
- if (r_status != -1)
- _close (r_pipe(1));
- _close (r_pipe(2));
- endif
-
- if (wr_status != -1)
- _close (w_pipe(1));
- _close (w_pipe(2));
- endif
-
- 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
-