@@ -564,6 +564,18 @@ char *qemu_get_pid_name(pid_t pid);
*/
pid_t qemu_fork(Error **errp);
+/**
+ * qemu_launch_script:
+ * @script: the path to the script
+ * @args: the arguments for the script
+ * @fd: a file descriptor that should not be closed
+ *
+ * fork and exec a script with the given arguments
+ * closes all file descriptors > 2 except the one given with fd
+ */
+void qemu_launch_script(const char *script, char *const args[], int fd,
+ Error **errp);
+
/* Using intptr_t ensures that qemu_*_page_mask is sign-extended even
* when intptr_t is 32-bit and we are aligning a long long.
*/
@@ -698,3 +698,37 @@ void sigaction_invoke(struct sigaction *action,
}
action->sa_sigaction(info->ssi_signo, &si, NULL);
}
+
+void qemu_launch_script(const char *script, char *const args[], int fd,
+ Error **errp)
+{
+ int pid, status;
+
+ pid = fork();
+ if (pid < 0) {
+ error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "could not launch script %s",
+ script);
+ return;
+ }
+ if (pid == 0) {
+ int open_max = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX), i;
+
+ for (i = 3; i < open_max; i++) {
+ if (i != fd) {
+ close(i);
+ }
+ }
+ execv(script, args);
+ _exit(1);
+ } else {
+ while (waitpid(pid, &status, 0) != pid) {
+ /* loop */
+ }
+
+ if (WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status) == 0) {
+ return;
+ }
+ error_setg(errp, "script %s failed with status %d",
+ script, status);
+ }
+}
@@ -803,3 +803,11 @@ bool qemu_write_pidfile(const char *filename, Error **errp)
}
return true;
}
+
+void qemu_launch_script(const char *script, char *const args[], int fd,
+ Error **errp)
+{
+ errno = ENOSYS;
+ error_setg_errno(errp, errno,
+ "cannot fork child process");
+}
this adds a small function for launching an external script via fork/exec (not available for windows) and is intended for replacing 'launch_script' in net/tap.c and to provide a general way to launch scripts Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com> --- i modeled the windows error after the qemu_fork implementation, since it does not exist for the same reason changes since v1: * new in v2 include/qemu/osdep.h | 12 ++++++++++++ util/oslib-posix.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ util/oslib-win32.c | 8 ++++++++ 3 files changed, 54 insertions(+)