Quoth Alexander Kjeldaas <[email protected]>,
> See access(2)
... a classic "code smell" in UNIX programming, for the same reasons.
We can solve this problem in an efficient way that works well, and equally
well, on any POSIX platform that supports F_CLOEXEC on pipes, and I can't
think of anything that doesn't. The appended code is the basic gist of it.
This was not invented by the Python world, but as suggested it's one of
the things that we'd get from a review of their subprocess module.
Donn
spawn file cmd env = do
(e0, e1) <- pipe
fcntlSetFlag e1 F_CLOEXEC
t <- fork (fex e0 e1)
close e1
rx <- readFd e0 256
if null rx
then return t
else ioerr (chrToErrType rx) file
where
fex e0 e1 = do
close e0
catch (execve file cmd env)
(\ e -> writeFd e1 (errToChr e : ioeGetErrorString e))
ioerr (e, s) file = ioError (mkIOError e s Nothing (Just file))
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