Allow vfork()ing an external gunzip binary instead of using fork().
[project/opkg-lede.git] / libbb / gz_open.c
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23
24 #include <sys/types.h>
25 #include <sys/wait.h>
26 #include <signal.h>
27 #include <stdlib.h>
28 #include <string.h>
29 #include <unistd.h>
30 #include "libbb.h"
31
32 static int gz_use_vfork;
33
34 FILE *
35 gz_open(FILE *compressed_file, int *pid)
36 {
37 int unzip_pipe[2];
38 off_t floc;
39 int cfile = -1;
40
41 gz_use_vfork = (getenv("OPKG_USE_VFORK") != NULL);
42
43 if (gz_use_vfork) {
44 /* Create a new file descriptor for the input stream
45 * (it *must* be associated with a file), and lseek()
46 * to the same position in that fd as the stream.
47 */
48 cfile = dup(fileno(compressed_file));
49 floc = ftello(compressed_file);
50 lseek(cfile, floc, SEEK_SET);
51 setenv("GZIP", "--quiet", 0);
52 }
53
54 if (pipe(unzip_pipe)!=0) {
55 perror_msg("pipe");
56 return(NULL);
57 }
58
59 /* If we don't flush, we end up with two copies of anything pending,
60 one from the parent, one from the child */
61 fflush(stdout);
62 fflush(stderr);
63
64 if (gz_use_vfork) {
65 *pid = vfork();
66 } else {
67 *pid = fork();
68 }
69
70 if (*pid<0) {
71 perror_msg("fork");
72 return(NULL);
73 }
74
75 if (*pid==0) {
76 /* child process */
77 close(unzip_pipe[0]);
78 if (gz_use_vfork) {
79 dup2(unzip_pipe[1], 1);
80 dup2(cfile, 0);
81 execlp("gunzip","gunzip",NULL);
82 /* If we get here, we had a failure */
83 _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
84 } else {
85 unzip(compressed_file, fdopen(unzip_pipe[1], "w"));
86 fflush(NULL);
87 fclose(compressed_file);
88 close(unzip_pipe[1]);
89 _exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
90 }
91 }
92 /* Parent process is executing here */
93 if (gz_use_vfork) {
94 close(cfile);
95 }
96 close(unzip_pipe[1]);
97 return(fdopen(unzip_pipe[0], "r"));
98 }
99
100 int
101 gz_close(int gunzip_pid)
102 {
103 int status;
104 int ret;
105
106 if (gz_use_vfork) {
107 /* The gunzip process remains running in the background if we
108 * used the vfork()/exec() technique - so we have to kill it
109 * forcibly. There might be a better way to do this, but that
110 * affect a lot of other parts of opkg, and this works fine.
111 */
112 if (kill(gunzip_pid, SIGTERM) == -1) {
113 perror_msg("gz_close(): unable to kill gunzip pid.");
114 return -1;
115 }
116 }
117
118
119 if (waitpid(gunzip_pid, &status, 0) == -1) {
120 perror_msg("waitpid");
121 return -1;
122 }
123
124 if (gz_use_vfork) {
125 /* Bail out here if we used the vfork()/exec() technique. */
126 return 0;
127 }
128
129 if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
130 error_msg("Unzip process killed by signal %d.\n",
131 WTERMSIG(status));
132 return -1;
133 }
134
135 if (!WIFEXITED(status)) {
136 /* shouldn't happen */
137 error_msg("Your system is broken: got status %d from waitpid.\n",
138 status);
139 return -1;
140 }
141
142 if ((ret = WEXITSTATUS(status))) {
143 error_msg("Unzip process failed with return code %d.\n",
144 ret);
145 return -1;
146 }
147
148 return 0;
149 }