Depending on the operating system, /bin/sh might either be bash (for
example on Fedora or Arch) or dash (for example on Debian or Ubuntu)
or some other POSIX shell.
When bash is asked to run a simple command with no shell keywords or
metacharacters, like this one, it replaces itself with the program
via execve(), but dash does not have that optimization and treats it
like any other program invocation in a larger script: it will fork,
exec the program in the child, and wait for the child in the parent.
This seems like it conflicts with sleep_and_kill() assuming that it can
use the subprocess's process ID as the sleep(1) process ID. Specifically,
if it sends SIGKILL, it will go to the sh(1) process and not the sleep(1)
child, which could result in the sh(1) process being terminated and
its sleep(1) child being leaked.
To get the bash-like behaviour portably, explicitly use the exec builtin
to instruct the shell to replace itself with sleep(1), so that the
process ID previously used for the shell becomes the process ID of the
sleep process.
This appears to resolve an intermittent hang and test timeout on Debian
machines (especially slower ones), although I'm not 100% clear on the
mechanics of how it happens.
Resolves: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3157
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
It’s not actually needed on any platform, and causes compilation
problems on platforms where it’s not available.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #3111
The test case will fail with the
g_assert_false (g_subprocess_get_successful (proc));
assert failing. Without the fix, it'll hit sometimes, but rather
unreliably. When running `meson test --repeat 100`, it'll reproduce
anywhere between the first or much later, but mostly before the 20th
iteration on my system.
Helps: #3071
This tests for #2503. It's fragile, but there is no non-fragile way to
test this. If the test breaks in the future, it will pass without
successfully testing the bug, not fail spuriously, so I think this is
OK.
This reverts commit 52bab0254a.
It silently conflicted with another commit,
90ca3b4dd0, which was merged later than
it. I’ve kept commit 90ca3b because it also frees the GError; 52bab
doesn’t.
This is my failure to rebase and test old branches before merging them,
instead of assuming that the lack of automatically detected merge
conflicts actually means there are no merge conflicts.
Prevent the situation where errno is set by function A, then function B
is called (which is typically _(), but could be anything else) and it
overwrites errno, then errno is checked by the caller.
errno is a horrific API, and we need to be careful to save its value as
soon as a function call (which might set it) returns. i.e. Follow the
pattern:
int errsv, ret;
ret = some_call_which_might_set_errno ();
errsv = errno;
if (ret < 0)
puts (strerror (errsv));
This patch implements that pattern throughout GLib. There might be a few
places in the test code which still use errno directly. They should be
ported as necessary. It doesn’t modify all the call sites like this:
if (some_call_which_might_set_errno () && errno == ESOMETHING)
since the refactoring involved is probably more harmful than beneficial
there. It does, however, refactor other call sites regardless of whether
they were originally buggy.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785577
Add a test for GSubprocess to test setting, unsetting and inheritance of
environment variables. Use communicate() to give it a bit more of a
workout as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725651
Include unistd.h only on *NIX and define items as necessary on Windows,
also replace instances of ssize_t with the GLib-equivilant gssize so to fix
the build on platforms that do not have ssize_t, such as Visual C++.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711047
There are a number of nice things this class brings:
0) Has a race-free termination API on all platforms (on UNIX, calls to
kill() and waitpid() are coordinated as not to cause problems).
1) Operates in terms of G{Input,Output}Stream, not file descriptors
2) Standard GIO-style async API for wait() with cancellation
3) Makes some simple cases easy, like synchronously spawning a
process with an argument list
4) Makes hard cases possible, like asynchronously running a process
with stdout/stderr merged, output directly to a file path
Much rewriting and code review from Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672102
