package IPC::System::Simple; use 5.006; use strict; use warnings; use re 'taint'; use Carp; use List::Util qw(first); use Scalar::Util qw(tainted); use Config; use constant WINDOWS => ($^O eq 'MSWin32'); use constant VMS => ($^O eq 'VMS'); use if WINDOWS, 'Win32::Process', qw(INFINITE NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS); use if WINDOWS, 'File::Spec'; # Note that we don't use WIFSTOPPED because perl never uses # the WUNTRACED flag, and hence will never return early from # system() if the child processes is suspended with a SIGSTOP. use POSIX qw(WIFEXITED WEXITSTATUS WIFSIGNALED WTERMSIG); use constant FAIL_START => q{"%s" failed to start: "%s"}; use constant FAIL_PLUMBING => q{Error in IPC::System::Simple plumbing: "%s" - "%s"}; use constant FAIL_CMD_BLANK => q{Entirely blank command passed: "%s"}; use constant FAIL_INTERNAL => q{Internal error in IPC::System::Simple: "%s"}; use constant FAIL_TAINT => q{IPC::System::Simple::%s called with tainted argument "%s"}; use constant FAIL_TAINT_ENV => q{IPC::System::Simple::%s called with tainted environment $ENV{%s}}; use constant FAIL_SIGNAL => q{"%s" died to signal "%s" (%d)%s}; use constant FAIL_BADEXIT => q{"%s" unexpectedly returned exit value %d}; use constant FAIL_POSIX => q{IPC::System::Simple does not understand the POSIX error '%s'. Please check http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?IPC::System::Simple to see if there is an updated version. If not please report this as a bug to http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=IPC-System-Simple}; # On Perl's older than 5.8.x we can't assume that there'll be a # $^{TAINT} for us to check, so we assume that our args may always # be tainted. use constant ASSUME_TAINTED => ($] < 5.008); use constant EXIT_ANY_CONST => -1; # Used internally use constant EXIT_ANY => [ EXIT_ANY_CONST ]; # Exported use constant UNDEFINED_POSIX_RE => qr{not (?:defined|a valid) POSIX macro}; require Exporter; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our @EXPORT_OK = qw( capture run $EXITVAL EXIT_ANY ); our $VERSION = '0.10'; our $EXITVAL = -1; my @Signal_from_number = split(' ', $Config{sig_name}); # Environment variables we don't want to see tainted. my @Check_tainted_env = qw(PATH IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV); if (WINDOWS) { push(@Check_tainted_env, 'PERL5SHELL'); } if (VMS) { push(@Check_tainted_env, 'DCL$PATH'); } # Not all systems implment the WIFEXITED calls, but POSIX # will always export them (even if they're just stubs that # die with an error). Test for the presence of a working # WIFEXITED and friends, or define our own. eval { WIFEXITED(0); }; if ($@ =~ UNDEFINED_POSIX_RE) { *WIFEXITED = sub { not $_[0] & 0xff }; *WEXITSTATUS = sub { $_[0] >> 8 }; *WIFSIGNALED = sub { $_[0] & 127 }; *WTERMSIG = sub { $_[0] & 127 }; } elsif ($@) { croak sprintf FAIL_POSIX, $@; } # None of the POSIX modules I've found define WCOREDUMP, although # many systems define it. Check the POSIX module on the hope that # it may actually be there. eval { POSIX::WCOREDUMP(1); }; if ($@ =~ UNDEFINED_POSIX_RE) { *WCOREDUMP = sub { $_[0] & 128 }; } elsif ($@) { croak sprintf FAIL_POSIX, $@; } else { # POSIX actually has it defined! Huzzah! *WCOREDUMP = \&POSIX::WCOREDUMP; } # run is our way of running a process with system() semantics sub run { _check_taint(@_); my ($valid_returns, $command, @args) = _process_args(@_); # With the wonders of constant folding the following code # is completely optimised away under non-windows systems. # The following essentially emulates multi-argument system, # bypassing the shell entirely. if (WINDOWS and @args) { our $EXITVAL = -1; my $pid = _spawn_or_die($command, "$command @args"); $pid->Wait(INFINITE); # Wait for process exit. $pid->GetExitCode($EXITVAL); return _check_exit($command,$EXITVAL,$valid_returns); } # On non-Win32 systems, or when we don't have multiple argument, # we have an easier time. # We're throwing our own exception on command not found, so # we don't need a warning from Perl. no warnings 'exec'; ## no critic system($command,@args); return _process_child_error($?,$command,$valid_returns); } # capture is our way of running a process with backticks/qx semantics sub capture { _check_taint(@_); my ($valid_returns, $command, @args) = _process_args(@_); our $EXITVAL = -1; my $wantarray = wantarray(); if (WINDOWS) { # Perl doesn't support multi-arg backticks under # Windows. Perl also doesn't provide very good # feedback when normal backtails fail, either, # instead returning the exit status from the shell # (which is indistinguishable from the command # running and producing the same exit status). # As such, we essentially have to write our own # backticks. # We start by dup'ing STDOUT. open(my $saved_stdout, '>&', \*STDOUT) ## no critic or croak sprintf(FAIL_PLUMBING, "Can't dup STDOUT", $!); # We now open up a pipe that will allow us to # communicate with the new process. pipe(my ($read_fh, $write_fh)) or croak sprintf(FAIL_PLUMBING, "Can't create pipe", $!); # Allow CRLF sequences to become "\n", since # this is what Perl backticks do. binmode($read_fh, ':crlf'); # Now we re-open our STDOUT to $write_fh... open(STDOUT, '>&', $write_fh) ## no critic or croak sprintf(FAIL_PLUMBING, "Can't redirect STDOUT", $!); # And now we spawn our new process with inherited # filehandles. my $exe = @args ? $command : $command =~ m{^"([^"]+)"}x ? $1 : $command =~ m{(\S+) }x ? $1 : croak sprintf(FAIL_CMD_BLANK, $command); my $pid = _spawn_or_die($exe, "$command @args"); # Now restore our STDOUT. open(STDOUT, '>&', $saved_stdout) ## no critic or croak sprintf(FAIL_PLUMBING,"Can't restore STDOUT", $!); # Clean-up the filehandles we no longer need... close($write_fh) or croak sprintf(FAIL_PLUMBING,q{Can't close write end of pipe}, $!); close($saved_stdout) or croak sprintf(FAIL_PLUMBING,q{Can't close saved STDOUT}, $!); # Read the data from our child... my (@results, $result); if ($wantarray) { @results = <$read_fh>; } else { $result = join("",<$read_fh>); } # Tidy up our windows process and we're done! $pid->Wait(INFINITE); # Wait for process exit. $pid->GetExitCode($EXITVAL); _check_exit($command,$EXITVAL,$valid_returns); return $wantarray ? @results : $result; } # We'll produce our own warnings on failure to execute. no warnings 'exec'; ## no critic if (not @args) { if ($wantarray) { my @results = qx($command); _process_child_error($?,$command,$valid_returns); return @results; } my $results = qx($command); _process_child_error($?,$command,$valid_returns); return $results; } # If we're here, we have arguments. Avoid the shell using # multi-arg open. # We can't use a multi-arg piped open here, since 5.6.x # doesn't like them. Instead we emulate what 5.8.x does, # which is to create a pipe(), set the close-on-exec flag # on the child, and the fork/exec. If the exec fails, the # child writes to the pipe. If the exec succeeds, then # the pipe closes without data. pipe(my ($read_fh, $write_fh)) or croak sprintf(FAIL_PLUMBING, "Can't create pipe", $!); # This next line also does an implicit fork. my $pid = open(my $pipe, '-|'); ## no critic if (not defined $pid) { croak sprintf(FAIL_START, $command, $!); } elsif (not $pid) { # Child process, execs command. close($read_fh); # TODO: 'no warnings exec' doesn't get rid # of the 'unlikely to be reached' warnings. # This is a bug in perl / perldiag / perllexwarn / warnings. no warnings; ## no critic exec($command, @args); # Oh no, exec fails! Send the reason why to # the parent. print {$write_fh} int($!); exit(-1); } { # In parent process. close($write_fh); # Parent process, check for child error. my $error = <$read_fh>; # Tidy up our pipes. close($read_fh); # Check for error. if ($error) { # Setting $! to our child error number gives # us nice looking strings when printed. local $! = $error; croak sprintf(FAIL_START, $command, $!); } } # Parent process, we don't care about our pid, but we # do go and read our pipe. if ($wantarray) { my @results = <$pipe>; close($pipe); _process_child_error($?,$command,$valid_returns); return @results; } # NB: We don't check the return status on close(), since # on failure it sets $?, which we then inspect for more # useful information. my $results = join("",<$pipe>); close($pipe); _process_child_error($?,$command,$valid_returns); return $results; } # Tries really hard to spawn a process under Windows. Returns # the pid on success, or undef on error. sub _spawn_or_die { # We need to wrap practically the entire sub in an # if block to ensure it doesn't get compiled under non-Win32 # systems. Compiling on this systems would not only be a # waste of time, but also results in complaints about # the NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS constant. if (not WINDOWS) { croak sprintf(FAIL_INTERNAL, "_spawn_or_die called when not under Win32"); } else { my ($orig_exe, $cmdline) = @_; my $pid; my $exe = $orig_exe; # If our command doesn't have an extension, add one. $exe .= $Config{_exe} if ($exe !~ m{\.}); Win32::Process::Create( $pid, $exe, $cmdline, 1, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, "." ) and return $pid; my @path = split(/;/,$ENV{PATH}); foreach my $dir (@path) { my $fullpath = File::Spec->catfile($dir,$exe); # We're using -x here on the assumption that stat() # is faster than spawn, so trying to spawn a process # for each path element will be unacceptably # inefficient. if (-x $fullpath) { Win32::Process::Create( $pid, $fullpath, $cmdline, 1, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, "." ) and return $pid; } } croak sprintf(FAIL_START, $orig_exe, $^E); } } # Complain on tainted arguments or environment. # ASSUME_TAINTED is true for 5.6.x, since it's missing ${^TAINT} sub _check_taint { return if not (ASSUME_TAINTED or ${^TAINT}); my $caller = (caller(1))[3]; foreach my $var (@_) { if (tainted $var) { croak sprintf(FAIL_TAINT, $caller, $var); } } foreach my $var (@Check_tainted_env) { if (tainted $ENV{$var} ) { croak sprintf(FAIL_TAINT_ENV, $caller, $var); } } return; } # This subroutine performs the difficult task of interpreting # $?. It's not intended to be called directly, as it will # croak on errors, and its implementation and interface may # change in the future. sub _process_child_error { my ($child_error, $command, $valid_returns) = @_; $EXITVAL = -1; my $coredump = WCOREDUMP($child_error); if ($child_error == -1) { croak sprintf(FAIL_START, $command, $!); } elsif ( WIFEXITED( $child_error ) ) { $EXITVAL = WEXITSTATUS( $child_error ); return _check_exit($command,$EXITVAL,$valid_returns); } elsif ( WIFSIGNALED( $child_error ) ) { my $signal_no = WTERMSIG( $child_error ); my $signal_name = $Signal_from_number[$signal_no] || "UNKNOWN"; croak sprintf FAIL_SIGNAL, $command, $signal_name, $signal_no, ($coredump ? " and dumped core" : ""); } croak sprintf(FAIL_INTERNAL, qq{'$command' ran without exit value or signal}); } # A simple subroutine for checking exit values. Results in better # assurance of consistent error messages, and better forward support # for new features in I::S::S. sub _check_exit { my ($command, $exitval, $valid_returns) = @_; # If we have a single-value list consisting of the EXIT_ANY # value, then we're happy with whatever exit value we're given. if (@$valid_returns == 1 and $valid_returns->[0] == EXIT_ANY_CONST) { return $exitval; } if (not defined first { $_ == $exitval } @$valid_returns) { croak sprintf FAIL_BADEXIT, $command, $exitval; } return $exitval; } # This subroutine simply determines a list of valid returns, the command # name, and any arguments that we need to pass to it. sub _process_args { my $valid_returns = [ 0 ]; my $caller = (caller(1))[3]; if (not @_) { croak "IPC::System::Simple::$caller called with no arguments"; } if (ref $_[0] eq "ARRAY") { $valid_returns = shift(@_); } if (not @_) { croak "IPC::System::Simple::$caller called with no command"; } my $command = shift(@_); return ($valid_returns,$command,@_); } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME IPC::System::Simple - Run commands simply, with detailed diagnostics =head1 SYNOPSIS use IPC::System::Simple qw(capture run $EXITVAL EXIT_ANY); # Run a command, throwing exception on failure run("some_command"); run("some_command",@args); # Run a command, avoiding the shell # Run a command which must return 0..5, avoid the shell, and get the # exit value (we could also look at $EXITVAL) my $exit_value = run([0..5], "some_command", @args); # The same, but any exit value will do. my $exit_value = run(EXIT_ANY, "some_command", @args); # Capture output into $result and throw exception on failure my $result = capture("some_command"); # Check exit value from captured command print "some_command exited with status $EXITVAL\n"; # Captures into @lines, splitting on $/ my @lines = capture("some_command"); # Run a command which must return 0..5, capture the output into # @lines, and avoid the shell. my @lines = capture([0..5], "some_command", @args); =head1 DESCRIPTION Calling Perl's in-built C function is easy, but checking the results can be hard. C aims to make life easy for the I of calling C and backticks (aka C). =head2 run C provides a subroutine called C, that executes a command using the same semantics is Perl's built-in C: use IPC::System::Simple qw(run); run("cat *.txt"); # Execute command via the shell run("cat","/etc/motd"); # Execute command without shell =head2 capture A second subroutine, named C executes a command with the same semantics as Perl's built-in backticks (and C): use IPC::System::Simple qw(capture); # Capture text while invoking the shell. my $file = capture("cat /etc/motd"); my @lines = capture("cat /etc/passwd"); However unlike regular backticks, which always use the shell, C will bypass the shell when called with multiple arguments: # Capture text while avoiding the shell. my $file = capture("cat", "/etc/motd"); my @lines = capture("cat", "/etc/passwd"); =head2 Exception handling In the case where the command returns an unexpected status, both C and C will throw an exception, which if not caught will terminate your program with an error. Capturing the exception is easy: eval { run("cat *.txt"); }; if ($@) { print "Something went wrong - $@\n"; } See the diagnostics section below for more details. =head3 Exception cases C considers the following to be unexpected, and worthy of exception: =over 4 =item * Failing to start entirely (eg, command not found, permission denied). =item * Returning an exit value other than zero (but see below). =item * Being killed by a signal. =item * Being passed tainted data (in taint mode). =back =head2 Exit values Traditionally, system commands return a zero status for success and a non-zero status for failure. C will default to throwing an exception if a non-zero exit value is returned. You may specify a range of values which are considered acceptable exit values by passing an I as the first argument. The special constant C can be used to allow I exit value to be returned. use IPC::System::Simple qw(run capture EXIT_ANY); run( [0..5], "cat *.txt"); # Exit values 0-5 are OK my @lines = capture( EXIT_ANY, "cat *.txt"); # Any exit is fine. The C subroutine returns the exit value of the process: my $exit_value = run( [0..5], "cat *.txt"); print "Program exited with value $exit_value\n"; =head3 $EXITVAL The exit value of a command executed with either C or C can always be retrieved from the C<$IPC::System::Simple::EXITVAL> variable: use IPC::System::Simple qw(capture $EXITVAL); my @lines = capture("cat", "/etc/passwd"); print "Program exited with value $EXITVAL\n"; This is particularly useful when inspecting results from C, which returns the captured text from the command. C<$EXITVAL> will be set to C<-1> if the command did not exit normally (eg, being terminated by a signal) or did not start. =head2 WINDOWS-SPECIFIC NOTES As of C v0.06, the C subroutine I will make available the full 16-bit exit value on Win32 systems. This is different from the previous versions of C and from Perl's in-build C function, which can only handle 8-bit return values. The C subroutine always returns the 16-bit exit value under Windows. The C subroutine also never uses the shell, even when passed a single argument. Versions of C before v0.09 would not search the C environment variable when the multi-argument form of C was called. Versions from v0.09 onwards correctly search the path provided the command is provided including the extension (eg, C rather than just C, or C rather than just C). If no extension is provided, C<.exe> is assumed. Signals are not supported on Windows systems. Sending a signal to a Windows process will usually cause it to exit with the signal number used. =head1 DIAGNOSTICS =over 4 =item "%s" failed to start: "%s" The command specified did not even start. It may not exist, or you may not have permission to use it. The reason it could not start (as determined from C<$!>) will be provided. =item "%s" unexpectedly returned exit value %d The command ran successfully, but returned an exit value we did not expect. The value returned is reported. =item "%s" died to signal "%s" (%d) %s The command was killed by a signal. The name of the signal will be reported, or C if it cannot be determined. The signal number is always reported. If we detected that the process dumped core, then the string C is appeneded. =item IPC::System::Simple::%s called with no arguments You attempted to call C or C but did not provide any arguments at all. At the very lease you need to supply a command to run. =item IPC::System::Simple::%s called with no command You called C or C with a list of acceptable exit values, but no actual command. =item IPC::System::Simple::%s called with tainted argument "%s" You called C or C with tainted (untrusted) arguments, which is almost certainly a bad idea. To untaint your arguments you'll need to pass your data through a regular expression and use the resulting match variables. See L for more information. =item IPC::System::Simple::%s called with tainted environment $ENV{%s} You called C or C but part of your environment was tainted (untrusted). You should either delete the named environment variable before calling C, or set it to an untainted value (usually one set inside your program). See L for more information. =item Error in IPC::System::Simple plumbing: "%s" - "%s" Implementing the C command involves dark and terrible magicks involving pipes, and one of them has sprung a leak. This could be due to a lack of file descriptors, although there are other possibilities. If you are able to reproduce this error, you are encouraged to submit a bug report according to the L section below. =item Internal error in IPC::System::Simple: "%s" You've found a bug in C. Please check to see if an updated version of C is available. If not, please file a bug report according to the L section below. =back =head1 DEPENDENCIES This module depends upon L when used on Win32 system. C is bundled as a core module in ActivePerl 5.6 and above. There are no non-core dependencies on non-Win32 systems. =head1 BUGS Core dumps are only checked for when a process dies due to a signal. C status is not checked, as perl never spawns processes with the C option. Signals are not supported under Win32 systems. 16-bit exit values are provided when C is called with multiple arguments under Windows, but only 8-bit values are returned when C is called with a single value. We should always return 16-bit value on systems that support them. =head2 Reporting bugs Before reporting a bug, please check to ensure you are using the most recent version of C. Your problem may have already been fixed in a new release. You can find the C bug-tracker at L . Please check to see if your bug has already been reported; if in doubt, report yours anyway. Submitting a patch and/or failing test case will greatly expediate the fixing of bugs. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L, L, L, L, L =head1 AUTHOR Paul Fenwick Epjf@cpan.orgE =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2006-2008 by Paul Fenwick This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.6.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available. =cut