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in reply to Re: Redirecting stdout/stderr to pipe
in thread Redirecting stdout/stderr to pipe

Ok, here is the code snippet. In a perl nutshell, the parent forks a child which does the actual o/s command, and the parent continues to monitor the child's duration and output size.

The child will redirect its output to the pipes and exec(). The parent _needs_ to acquire the child's stdout and stderr as fast as possible, and be able to handle (kill) a child running for longer than X time or larger than Y size.

pipe READOUT,WRITEOUT; pipe READERR,WRITEERR; $g_pid = fork(); if ( $g_pid < 0 ) { # Error die "Error: fork failed with error $g_pid: $!."; $rc = 1; } elsif ( $g_pid == 0 ) { # Child close(READOUT); close(READERR); close(STDOUT); open(STDOUT,">&WRITEOUT"); close(STDERR); open(STDERR,">&WRITEERR"); close(STDIN); open(STDIN,"</dev/null"); exec($$cmdref); exit(1); } else { # Parent $g_did_run++; $g_pids{$g_pid} = 1; close(WRITEOUT); close(WRITEERR); if ( $g_timeout > 0 ) { $g_stop = 0; alarm $g_timeout; } my $r_in = ""; my $w_in = ""; vec($r_in,fileno(READOUT),1) = 1; vec($r_in,fileno(READERR),1) = 1; vec($w_in,fileno(STDOUT),1) = 1; my $e_in = $r_in | $w_in; my ($r_out,$w_out,$e_out); my $cnt=0; my $eof_e = 0; my $eof_o = 0; while (1) { my ($nfound,$timeleft) = select($r_out=$r_in,undef,$e_out=$e_ +in,1); prog_log(20,sprintf("run_cmd: select returned time [%d] found + [$nfound] timeleft [$timeleft] r_out [%s] r_err [%s] e_out [%s] e_er +r [%s]\n", time, vec($r_out,fileno(READOUT),1)?'y':'n', vec($r_out,fileno(READERR),1)?'y':'n', vec($e_out,fileno(READOUT),1)?'y':'n', vec($e_out,fileno(READERR),1)?'y':'n')); if ( vec($r_out,fileno(READERR),1) and !vec($e_out,fileno(REA +DERR),1) ) { if ( eof(READERR) ) { $eof_e = 1; } else { my $line = <READERR>; chomp $line; push @$errref, $line; } } if ( vec($r_out,fileno(READOUT),1) and ! vec($e_out,fileno(RE +ADOUT),1) ) { if ( eof(READOUT) ) { $eof_o = 1; } else { my $line = <READOUT>; chomp $line; push @$outref, $line; } } last if ( $eof_e and $eof_o ); last if ( $g_stop ); } if ( $g_stop ) { # Indicator for select loop to break $rc = 2; } else { my $loglvl = 5; my $t_pid = waitpid($g_pid,0); if ( $t_pid < 0 ) { $rc = 3; } elsif ( $t_pid == 0 ) { # Process no terminated yet! $loglvl = 1; $rc = 4; } elsif ( $t_pid == $g_pid ) { $rc = $?; } else { # Not possible! $loglvl = 1; $rc = 5; } close(READOUT); close(READERR); delete $g_pids{$g_pid}; prog_log($loglvl,"run_cmd: waitpid($g_pid) returned $t_pid - +rc $rc."); }

Thanks in advance!
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