From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:12:27 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: New module 'posix_spawn'.
X-Git-Tag: v0.1~6957
X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cc342d20bb7de5042124c290239568745dc4c239;p=gnulib.git

New module 'posix_spawn'.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 29c673a10..46ab6fae7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2008-09-28  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
+	New module 'posix_spawn'.
+	* modules/posix_spawn: New file.
+	* lib/spawn.c: New file, from GNU libc with modifications.
+	* doc/posix-functions/posix_spawn.texi: Mention the new module.
+
 	New module 'posix_spawnattr_destroy'.
 	* modules/posix_spawnattr_destroy: New file.
 	* lib/spawnattr_destroy.c: New file, from GNU libc with modifications.
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/posix_spawn.texi b/doc/posix-functions/posix_spawn.texi
index 2bc9f4d15..e5fa25c32 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/posix_spawn.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/posix_spawn.texi
@@ -4,15 +4,18 @@
 
 POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/posix_spawn.html}
 
-Gnulib module: ---
+Gnulib module: posix_spawn
 
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
+@item
+This function is missing on some platforms:
+MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, Cygwin, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
-This function is missing on some platforms:
-MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, Cygwin, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
+This function does not work on some platforms:
+mingw.
 @end itemize
diff --git a/lib/spawn.c b/lib/spawn.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..424342d4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/spawn.c
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/* Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+   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>
+
+/* Specification.  */
+#include <spawn.h>
+
+#include "spawn_int.h"
+
+/* Spawn a new process executing PATH with the attributes describes in *ATTRP.
+   Before running the process perform the actions described in FILE-ACTIONS. */
+int
+posix_spawn (pid_t *pid, const char *path,
+	     const posix_spawn_file_actions_t *file_actions,
+	     const posix_spawnattr_t *attrp, char *const argv[],
+	     char *const envp[])
+{
+  return __spawni (pid, path, file_actions, attrp, argv, envp, 0);
+}
diff --git a/modules/posix_spawn b/modules/posix_spawn
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..443311939
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/posix_spawn
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+Description:
+posix_spawn() function: create a child process.
+
+Files:
+lib/spawn.c
+m4/posix_spawn.m4
+
+Depends-on:
+spawn
+posix_spawn-internal
+
+configure.ac:
+gl_POSIX_SPAWN
+if test $HAVE_POSIX_SPAWN = 0 || test $REPLACE_POSIX_SPAWN = 1; then
+  gl_REPLACE_SPAWN_H
+  AC_LIBOBJ([spawn])
+  gl_POSIX_SPAWN_INTERNAL
+fi
+gl_SPAWN_MODULE_INDICATOR([posix_spawn])
+
+Makefile.am:
+
+Include:
+<spawn.h>
+
+License:
+LGPL
+
+Maintainer:
+Bruno Haible, glibc
+