// Copyright 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. // This file contains functions for launching subprocesses. #ifndef BASE_PROCESS_LAUNCH_H_ #define BASE_PROCESS_LAUNCH_H_ #include <set> #include <string> #include <utility> #include <vector> #include "base/base_export.h" #include "base/basictypes.h" #include "base/environment.h" #include "base/process/process_handle.h" #include "base/strings/string_piece.h" #if defined(OS_POSIX) #include "base/posix/file_descriptor_shuffle.h" #elif defined(OS_WIN) #include <windows.h> #include "base/win/scoped_handle.h" #endif class CommandLine; namespace base { #if defined(OS_WIN) typedef std::vector<HANDLE> HandlesToInheritVector; #endif // TODO(viettrungluu): Only define this on POSIX? typedef std::vector<std::pair<int, int> > FileHandleMappingVector; // Options for launching a subprocess that are passed to LaunchProcess(). // The default constructor constructs the object with default options. struct BASE_EXPORT LaunchOptions { LaunchOptions(); ~LaunchOptions(); // If true, wait for the process to complete. bool wait; #if defined(OS_WIN) bool start_hidden; // If non-null, inherit exactly the list of handles in this vector (these // handles must be inheritable). This is only supported on Vista and higher. HandlesToInheritVector* handles_to_inherit; // If true, the new process inherits handles from the parent. In production // code this flag should be used only when running short-lived, trusted // binaries, because open handles from other libraries and subsystems will // leak to the child process, causing errors such as open socket hangs. // Note: If |handles_to_inherit| is non-null, this flag is ignored and only // those handles will be inherited (on Vista and higher). bool inherit_handles; // If non-null, runs as if the user represented by the token had launched it. // Whether the application is visible on the interactive desktop depends on // the token belonging to an interactive logon session. // // To avoid hard to diagnose problems, when specified this loads the // environment variables associated with the user and if this operation fails // the entire call fails as well. UserTokenHandle as_user; // If true, use an empty string for the desktop name. bool empty_desktop_name; // If non-null, launches the application in that job object. The process will // be terminated immediately and LaunchProcess() will fail if assignment to // the job object fails. HANDLE job_handle; // Handles for the redirection of stdin, stdout and stderr. The handles must // be inheritable. Caller should either set all three of them or none (i.e. // there is no way to redirect stderr without redirecting stdin). The // |inherit_handles| flag must be set to true when redirecting stdio stream. HANDLE stdin_handle; HANDLE stdout_handle; HANDLE stderr_handle; // If set to true, ensures that the child process is launched with the // CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB flag which allows it to breakout of the parent // job if any. bool force_breakaway_from_job_; #else // Set/unset environment variables. Empty (the default) means to inherit // the same environment. See AlterEnvironment(). EnvironmentMap environ; // If non-null, remap file descriptors according to the mapping of // src fd->dest fd to propagate FDs into the child process. // This pointer is owned by the caller and must live through the // call to LaunchProcess(). const FileHandleMappingVector* fds_to_remap; // Each element is an RLIMIT_* constant that should be raised to its // rlim_max. This pointer is owned by the caller and must live through // the call to LaunchProcess(). const std::set<int>* maximize_rlimits; // If true, start the process in a new process group, instead of // inheriting the parent's process group. The pgid of the child process // will be the same as its pid. bool new_process_group; #if defined(OS_LINUX) // If non-zero, start the process using clone(), using flags as provided. int clone_flags; #endif // defined(OS_LINUX) #if defined(OS_CHROMEOS) // If non-negative, the specified file descriptor will be set as the launched // process' controlling terminal. int ctrl_terminal_fd; #endif // defined(OS_CHROMEOS) #endif // !defined(OS_WIN) }; // Launch a process via the command line |cmdline|. // See the documentation of LaunchOptions for details on |options|. // // Returns true upon success. // // Upon success, if |process_handle| is non-null, it will be filled in with the // handle of the launched process. NOTE: In this case, the caller is // responsible for closing the handle so that it doesn't leak! // Otherwise, the process handle will be implicitly closed. // // Unix-specific notes: // - All file descriptors open in the parent process will be closed in the // child process except for any preserved by options::fds_to_remap, and // stdin, stdout, and stderr. If not remapped by options::fds_to_remap, // stdin is reopened as /dev/null, and the child is allowed to inherit its // parent's stdout and stderr. // - If the first argument on the command line does not contain a slash, // PATH will be searched. (See man execvp.) BASE_EXPORT bool LaunchProcess(const CommandLine& cmdline, const LaunchOptions& options, ProcessHandle* process_handle); #if defined(OS_WIN) // Windows-specific LaunchProcess that takes the command line as a // string. Useful for situations where you need to control the // command line arguments directly, but prefer the CommandLine version // if launching Chrome itself. // // The first command line argument should be the path to the process, // and don't forget to quote it. // // Example (including literal quotes) // cmdline = "c:\windows\explorer.exe" -foo "c:\bar\" BASE_EXPORT bool LaunchProcess(const string16& cmdline, const LaunchOptions& options, win::ScopedHandle* process_handle); #elif defined(OS_POSIX) // A POSIX-specific version of LaunchProcess that takes an argv array // instead of a CommandLine. Useful for situations where you need to // control the command line arguments directly, but prefer the // CommandLine version if launching Chrome itself. BASE_EXPORT bool LaunchProcess(const std::vector<std::string>& argv, const LaunchOptions& options, ProcessHandle* process_handle); // Close all file descriptors, except those which are a destination in the // given multimap. Only call this function in a child process where you know // that there aren't any other threads. BASE_EXPORT void CloseSuperfluousFds(const InjectiveMultimap& saved_map); #endif // defined(OS_POSIX) #if defined(OS_WIN) // Set |job_object|'s JOBOBJECT_EXTENDED_LIMIT_INFORMATION // BasicLimitInformation.LimitFlags to |limit_flags|. BASE_EXPORT bool SetJobObjectLimitFlags(HANDLE job_object, DWORD limit_flags); // Output multi-process printf, cout, cerr, etc to the cmd.exe console that ran // chrome. This is not thread-safe: only call from main thread. BASE_EXPORT void RouteStdioToConsole(); #endif // defined(OS_WIN) // Executes the application specified by |cl| and wait for it to exit. Stores // the output (stdout) in |output|. Redirects stderr to /dev/null. Returns true // on success (application launched and exited cleanly, with exit code // indicating success). BASE_EXPORT bool GetAppOutput(const CommandLine& cl, std::string* output); #if defined(OS_WIN) // A Windows-specific version of GetAppOutput that takes a command line string // instead of a CommandLine object. Useful for situations where you need to // control the command line arguments directly. BASE_EXPORT bool GetAppOutput(const StringPiece16& cl, std::string* output); #endif #if defined(OS_POSIX) // A POSIX-specific version of GetAppOutput that takes an argv array // instead of a CommandLine. Useful for situations where you need to // control the command line arguments directly. BASE_EXPORT bool GetAppOutput(const std::vector<std::string>& argv, std::string* output); // A restricted version of |GetAppOutput()| which (a) clears the environment, // and (b) stores at most |max_output| bytes; also, it doesn't search the path // for the command. BASE_EXPORT bool GetAppOutputRestricted(const CommandLine& cl, std::string* output, size_t max_output); // A version of |GetAppOutput()| which also returns the exit code of the // executed command. Returns true if the application runs and exits cleanly. If // this is the case the exit code of the application is available in // |*exit_code|. BASE_EXPORT bool GetAppOutputWithExitCode(const CommandLine& cl, std::string* output, int* exit_code); #endif // defined(OS_POSIX) // If supported on the platform, and the user has sufficent rights, increase // the current process's scheduling priority to a high priority. BASE_EXPORT void RaiseProcessToHighPriority(); #if defined(OS_MACOSX) // Restore the default exception handler, setting it to Apple Crash Reporter // (ReportCrash). When forking and execing a new process, the child will // inherit the parent's exception ports, which may be set to the Breakpad // instance running inside the parent. The parent's Breakpad instance should // not handle the child's exceptions. Calling RestoreDefaultExceptionHandler // in the child after forking will restore the standard exception handler. // See http://crbug.com/20371/ for more details. void RestoreDefaultExceptionHandler(); #endif // defined(OS_MACOSX) } // namespace base #endif // BASE_PROCESS_LAUNCH_H_