/* Close standard output and standard error, exiting with a diagnostic on error. Copyright (C) 1998-2002, 2004, 2006, 2008-2012 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 3 of the License, 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ #include <config.h> #include "closeout.h" #include <errno.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include "gettext.h" #define _(msgid) gettext (msgid) #include "close-stream.h" #include "error.h" #include "exitfail.h" #include "quotearg.h" static const char *file_name; /* Set the file name to be reported in the event an error is detected by close_stdout. */ void close_stdout_set_file_name (const char *file) { file_name = file; } static bool ignore_EPIPE /* = false */; /* Specify the reaction to an EPIPE error during the closing of stdout: - If ignore = true, it shall be ignored. - If ignore = false, it shall evoke a diagnostic, along with a nonzero exit status. The default is ignore = false. This setting matters only if the SIGPIPE signal is ignored (i.e. its handler set to SIG_IGN) or blocked. Only particular programs need to temporarily ignore SIGPIPE. If SIGPIPE is ignored or blocked because it was ignored or blocked in the parent process when it created the child process, it usually is a bug in the parent process: It is bad practice to have SIGPIPE ignored or blocked while creating a child process. EPIPE occurs when writing to a pipe or socket that has no readers now, when SIGPIPE is ignored or blocked. The ignore = false setting is suitable for a scenario where it is normally guaranteed that the pipe writer terminates before the pipe reader. In this case, an EPIPE is an indication of a premature termination of the pipe reader and should lead to a diagnostic and a nonzero exit status. The ignore = true setting is suitable for a scenario where you don't know ahead of time whether the pipe writer or the pipe reader will terminate first. In this case, an EPIPE is an indication that the pipe writer can stop doing useless write() calls; this is what close_stdout does anyway. EPIPE is part of the normal pipe/socket shutdown protocol in this case, and should not lead to a diagnostic message. */ void close_stdout_set_ignore_EPIPE (bool ignore) { ignore_EPIPE = ignore; } /* Close standard output. On error, issue a diagnostic and _exit with status 'exit_failure'. Also close standard error. On error, _exit with status 'exit_failure'. Since close_stdout is commonly registered via 'atexit', POSIX and the C standard both say that it should not call 'exit', because the behavior is undefined if 'exit' is called more than once. So it calls '_exit' instead of 'exit'. If close_stdout is registered via atexit before other functions are registered, the other functions can act before this _exit is invoked. Applications that use close_stdout should flush any streams other than stdout and stderr before exiting, since the call to _exit will bypass other buffer flushing. Applications should be flushing and closing other streams anyway, to check for I/O errors. Also, applications should not use tmpfile, since _exit can bypass the removal of these files. It's important to detect such failures and exit nonzero because many tools (most notably 'make' and other build-management systems) depend on being able to detect failure in other tools via their exit status. */ void close_stdout (void) { if (close_stream (stdout) != 0 && !(ignore_EPIPE && errno == EPIPE)) { char const *write_error = _("write error"); if (file_name) error (0, errno, "%s: %s", quotearg_colon (file_name), write_error); else error (0, errno, "%s", write_error); _exit (exit_failure); } if (close_stream (stderr) != 0) _exit (exit_failure); }