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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-07-10T14·50+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-07-10T14·58+0200
commit8e9140cfdef9dbd1eb61e4c75c91d452ab5e4a74 (patch)
treed4480372c993c09c073e3561f3966f7595bcf2aa /src/libutil
parent1114c7bd57bcab16255d5db5e6f66ae8dece7b1e (diff)
Refactoring: Move all fork handling into a higher-order function
C++11 lambdas ftw.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libutil')
-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.cc107
-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.hh7
2 files changed, 60 insertions, 54 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index 5f6203bc2805..faa2b83c372a 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #include "config.h"
 
+#include "util.hh"
+#include "affinity.hh"
+
 #include <iostream>
 #include <cerrno>
 #include <cstdio>
@@ -16,8 +19,6 @@
 #include <sys/syscall.h>
 #endif
 
-#include "util.hh"
-
 
 extern char * * environ;
 
@@ -714,6 +715,13 @@ Pid::Pid()
 }
 
 
+Pid::Pid(pid_t pid)
+{
+    Pid();
+    *this = pid;
+}
+
+
 Pid::~Pid()
 {
     kill();
@@ -801,43 +809,30 @@ void killUser(uid_t uid)
        users to which the current process can send signals.  So we
        fork a process, switch to uid, and send a mass kill. */
 
-    Pid pid;
-    pid = fork();
-    switch (pid) {
-
-    case -1:
-        throw SysError("unable to fork");
-
-    case 0:
-        try { /* child */
+    Pid pid = startProcess([&]() {
 
-            if (setuid(uid) == -1)
-                throw SysError("setting uid");
+        if (setuid(uid) == -1)
+            throw SysError("setting uid");
 
-            while (true) {
+        while (true) {
 #ifdef __APPLE__
-                /* OSX's kill syscall takes a third parameter that, among other
-                   things, determines if kill(-1, signo) affects the calling
-                   process. In the OSX libc, it's set to true, which means
-                   "follow POSIX", which we don't want here
+            /* OSX's kill syscall takes a third parameter that, among
+               other things, determines if kill(-1, signo) affects the
+               calling process. In the OSX libc, it's set to true,
+               which means "follow POSIX", which we don't want here
                  */
-                if (syscall(SYS_kill, -1, SIGKILL, false) == 0) break;
+            if (syscall(SYS_kill, -1, SIGKILL, false) == 0) break;
 #else
-                if (kill(-1, SIGKILL) == 0) break;
+            if (kill(-1, SIGKILL) == 0) break;
 #endif
-                if (errno == ESRCH) break; /* no more processes */
-                if (errno != EINTR)
-                    throw SysError(format("cannot kill processes for uid `%1%'") % uid);
-            }
-
-        } catch (std::exception & e) {
-            writeToStderr((format("killing processes belonging to uid `%1%': %2%\n") % uid % e.what()).str());
-            _exit(1);
+            if (errno == ESRCH) break; /* no more processes */
+            if (errno != EINTR)
+                throw SysError(format("cannot kill processes for uid `%1%'") % uid);
         }
+
         _exit(0);
-    }
+    });
 
-    /* parent */
     int status = pid.wait(true);
     if (status != 0)
         throw Error(format("cannot kill processes for uid `%1%': %2%") % uid % statusToString(status));
@@ -852,6 +847,25 @@ void killUser(uid_t uid)
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 
+pid_t startProcess(std::function<void()> fun, const string & errorPrefix)
+{
+    pid_t pid = fork();
+    if (pid == -1) throw SysError("unable to fork");
+
+    if (pid == 0) {
+        try {
+            restoreAffinity();
+            fun();
+        } catch (std::exception & e) {
+            writeToStderr(errorPrefix + string(e.what()) + "\n");
+        }
+        _exit(1);
+    }
+
+    return pid;
+}
+
+
 string runProgram(Path program, bool searchPath, const Strings & args)
 {
     checkInterrupt();
@@ -867,32 +881,17 @@ string runProgram(Path program, bool searchPath, const Strings & args)
     pipe.create();
 
     /* Fork. */
-    Pid pid;
-    pid = fork();
-
-    switch (pid) {
+    Pid pid = startProcess([&]() {
+        if (dup2(pipe.writeSide, STDOUT_FILENO) == -1)
+            throw SysError("dupping stdout");
 
-    case -1:
-        throw SysError("unable to fork");
-
-    case 0: /* child */
-        try {
-            if (dup2(pipe.writeSide, STDOUT_FILENO) == -1)
-                throw SysError("dupping stdout");
-
-            if (searchPath)
-                execvp(program.c_str(), (char * *) &cargs[0]);
-            else
-                execv(program.c_str(), (char * *) &cargs[0]);
-            throw SysError(format("executing `%1%'") % program);
-
-        } catch (std::exception & e) {
-            writeToStderr("error: " + string(e.what()) + "\n");
-        }
-        _exit(1);
-    }
+        if (searchPath)
+            execvp(program.c_str(), (char * *) &cargs[0]);
+        else
+            execv(program.c_str(), (char * *) &cargs[0]);
 
-    /* Parent. */
+        throw SysError(format("executing `%1%'") % program);
+    });
 
     pipe.writeSide.close();
 
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh
index 07c027a1f919..ad0d377a4f5e 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/util.hh
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <dirent.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <signal.h>
+#include <functional>
 
 #include <cstdio>
 
@@ -237,6 +238,7 @@ class Pid
     int killSignal;
 public:
     Pid();
+    Pid(pid_t pid);
     ~Pid();
     void operator =(pid_t pid);
     operator pid_t();
@@ -252,6 +254,11 @@ public:
 void killUser(uid_t uid);
 
 
+/* Fork a process that runs the given function, and return the child
+   pid to the caller. */
+pid_t startProcess(std::function<void()> fun, const string & errorPrefix = "error: ");
+
+
 /* Run a program and return its stdout in a string (i.e., like the
    shell backtick operator). */
 string runProgram(Path program, bool searchPath = false,