/* Save and restore the working directory, possibly using a subprocess. Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program 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. This program 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 this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ /* Written by Paul Eggert. */ #ifndef SAVEWD_H # define SAVEWD_H 1 #include #include /* A saved working directory. The member names and constants defined by this structure are private to the savewd module. */ struct savewd { /* The state of this object. */ enum { /* This object has been created but does not yet represent the working directory. */ INITIAL_STATE, /* val.fd is the original working directory's file descriptor. It is still the working directory. */ FD_STATE, /* Like FD_STATE, but the working directory has changed, so restoring it will require a fchdir. */ FD_POST_CHDIR_STATE, /* Fork and let the subprocess do the work. val.child is 0 in a child, negative in a childless parent, and the child process ID in a parent with a child. */ FORKING_STATE, /* A serious problem argues against further efforts. val.errnum contains the error number (e.g., EIO). */ ERROR_STATE, /* savewd_finish has been called, so the application no longer cares whether the working directory is saved, and there is no more work to do. */ FINAL_STATE } state; /* The object's value. */ union { int fd; int errnum; pid_t child; } val; }; /* Initialize a saved working directory object. */ static inline void savewd_init (struct savewd *wd) { wd->state = INITIAL_STATE; } /* Options for savewd_chdir. */ enum { /* Do not follow symbolic links, if supported. */ SAVEWD_CHDIR_NOFOLLOW = 1, /* The directory should be readable, so fail if it happens to be discovered that the directory is not readable. (Unreadable directories are not necessarily diagnosed, though.) */ SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE = 2, /* Do not chdir if the directory is readable; simply succeed without invoking chdir if the directory was opened. */ SAVEWD_CHDIR_SKIP_READABLE = 4 }; /* Change the directory, and if successful, record into *WD the fact that the process chdired into DIR. A process using this module should use savewd_chdir rather than chdir or fchdir. Obey the options specified in OPTIONS. If OPEN_RESULT is not null, store into OPEN_RESULT[0] a file descriptor that accesses DIR if a file descriptor is successfully obtained. Store -1 otherwise, setting OPEN_RESULT[1] to the error number. Store through OPEN_RESULT regardless of whether the chdir is successful. However, when -2 is returned, the contents of OPEN_RESULT are indeterminate since the file descriptor is closed in the parent. Return -2 if a subprocess was spun off to do the real work, -1 (setting errno) if unsuccessful, 0 if successful. */ int savewd_chdir (struct savewd *wd, char const *dir, int options, int open_result[2]); /* Restore the working directory from *WD. STATUS indicates the exit status corresponding to the work done since the last save; this is used when the caller is in a subprocess. Return 0 if successful, -1 (setting errno) on our failure, a positive subprocess exit status if the working directory was restored in the parent but the subprocess failed. */ int savewd_restore (struct savewd *wd, int status); /* Return WD's error number, or 0 if WD is not in an error state. */ static inline int savewd_errno (struct savewd const *wd) { return (wd->state == ERROR_STATE ? wd->val.errnum : 0); } /* Deallocate any resources associated with WD. A program that chdirs should restore before finishing. */ void savewd_finish (struct savewd *wd); /* Process N_FILES file names, FILE[0] through FILE[N_FILES - 1]. For each file name F, call ACT (F, WD, OPTIONS); ACT should invoke savewd_chdir as needed, and should return an exit status. WD represents the working directory; it may be in an error state when ACT is called. Save and restore the working directory as needed by the file name vector; assume that ACT does not require access to any relative file names other than its first argument, and that it is OK if the working directory is changed when this function returns. Some actions may be applied in a subprocess. Return the maximum exit status that any call to ACT returned, or EXIT_SUCCESS (i.e., 0) if no calls were made. */ int savewd_process_files (int n_files, char **file, int (*act) (char *, struct savewd *, void *), void *options); #endif