execl bug?

From: Christopher Weimann (csw_at_k12hq.com)
Date: 12/30/04

  • Next message: Dan Nelson: "Re: execl bug?" 
    Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:05:21 -0500
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    It seems that the open handle is carried through and usable by the child
    program unless the parent has done something to move the file pointer.
    For example the program below (tst.c) opens a file, reads a line, rewinds
    then uses execl to call "cat -" which ought to send the file to stdout.

    I thought I must be misunderstanding how execl is supposed to work so
    I tried it on a Redhat box to see if everything behaves the same. It
    doesn't. On Redhat the file is displayed just as I would expect.

    At first I thought this was a close-on-exec problem but that is not
    set, plus it works if I remove the fgets call.

    What am I missing?

    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <fcntl.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <err.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/wait.h>
    #include <sys/time.h>
    #include <sys/resource.h>
    #include <stdio.h>

    int
    main(argc, argv)
       int argc;
       char **argv;
    {
       pid_t pid;
       int status ;
       char buff[ 513 ];
       int tempfd = -1 ;

       if ((tempfd=open("tst.c", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0600)) < 0) {
          perror("open");
       }
       close(0);
       dup(tempfd);
       close(tempfd);

       printf( "\nclose on exec is %d \n" , fcntl( fileno(stdin), F_GETFD) && FD_CLOEXEC ) ;

            /* comment out the following three lines and all is well on FreeBSD */
       fgets( buff, 512, stdin ) ;
       printf( "%s", buff ) ;
       rewind( stdin ) ;

       if ( (pid = fork()) < 0){
          perror("execl error");
          _exit(1) ;
       } else if (pid == 0) { /* child */

          if (execl( "/bin/cat","cat", "-" , (char *) 0) < 0) {
             perror("execl error");
             _exit(1) ;
          }
       }

       if (waitpid(pid, &status, 0) < 0){ /* parent */
             perror("execl error");
             exit(1) ;
       }
       if( WIFEXITED(status) ) {
          exit(WEXITSTATUS(status));
       }else{
          exit( 1 ) ;
       }

    } 

    -- 
_______________________________________________
freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
  • Next message: Dan Nelson: "Re: execl bug?"

    Relevant Pages