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1 """distutils.spawn
2
3 Provides the 'spawn()' function, a front-end to various platform-
4 specific functions for launching another program in a sub-process.
5 Also provides the 'find_executable()' to search the path for a given
6 executable name.
7 """
8
9 # This module should be kept compatible with Python 1.5.2.
10
11 __revision__ = "$Id$"
12
13 import sys, os, string
14 from distutils.errors import *
15 from distutils import log
16
17 def spawn (cmd,
18 search_path=1,
19 verbose=0,
20 dry_run=0):
21
22 """Run another program, specified as a command list 'cmd', in a new
23 process. 'cmd' is just the argument list for the new process, ie.
24 cmd[0] is the program to run and cmd[1:] are the rest of its arguments.
25 There is no way to run a program with a name different from that of its
26 executable.
27
28 If 'search_path' is true (the default), the system's executable
29 search path will be used to find the program; otherwise, cmd[0]
30 must be the exact path to the executable. If 'dry_run' is true,
31 the command will not actually be run.
32
33 Raise DistutilsExecError if running the program fails in any way; just
34 return on success.
35 """
36 if os.name == 'posix':
37 _spawn_posix(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
38 elif os.name == 'nt':
39 _spawn_nt(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
40 elif os.name == 'os2':
41 _spawn_os2(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
42 else:
43 raise DistutilsPlatformError, \
44 "don't know how to spawn programs on platform '%s'" % os.name
45
46 # spawn ()
47
48
49 def _nt_quote_args (args):
50 """Quote command-line arguments for DOS/Windows conventions: just
51 wraps every argument which contains blanks in double quotes, and
52 returns a new argument list.
53 """
54
55 # XXX this doesn't seem very robust to me -- but if the Windows guys
56 # say it'll work, I guess I'll have to accept it. (What if an arg
57 # contains quotes? What other magic characters, other than spaces,
58 # have to be escaped? Is there an escaping mechanism other than
59 # quoting?)
60
61 for i in range(len(args)):
62 if string.find(args[i], ' ') != -1:
63 args[i] = '"%s"' % args[i]
64 return args
65
66 def _spawn_nt (cmd,
67 search_path=1,
68 verbose=0,
69 dry_run=0):
70
71 executable = cmd[0]
72 cmd = _nt_quote_args(cmd)
73 if search_path:
74 # either we find one or it stays the same
75 executable = find_executable(executable) or executable
76 log.info(string.join([executable] + cmd[1:], ' '))
77 if not dry_run:
78 # spawn for NT requires a full path to the .exe
79 try:
80 rc = os.spawnv(os.P_WAIT, executable, cmd)
81 except OSError, exc:
82 # this seems to happen when the command isn't found
83 raise DistutilsExecError, \
84 "command '%s' failed: %s" % (cmd[0], exc[-1])
85 if rc != 0:
86 # and this reflects the command running but failing
87 raise DistutilsExecError, \
88 "command '%s' failed with exit status %d" % (cmd[0], rc)
89
90
91 def _spawn_os2 (cmd,
92 search_path=1,
93 verbose=0,
94 dry_run=0):
95
96 executable = cmd[0]
97 #cmd = _nt_quote_args(cmd)
98 if search_path:
99 # either we find one or it stays the same
100 executable = find_executable(executable) or executable
101 log.info(string.join([executable] + cmd[1:], ' '))
102 if not dry_run:
103 # spawnv for OS/2 EMX requires a full path to the .exe
104 try:
105 rc = os.spawnv(os.P_WAIT, executable, cmd)
106 except OSError, exc:
107 # this seems to happen when the command isn't found
108 raise DistutilsExecError, \
109 "command '%s' failed: %s" % (cmd[0], exc[-1])
110 if rc != 0:
111 # and this reflects the command running but failing
112 print "command '%s' failed with exit status %d" % (cmd[0], rc)
113 raise DistutilsExecError, \
114 "command '%s' failed with exit status %d" % (cmd[0], rc)
115
116
117 def _spawn_posix (cmd,
118 search_path=1,
119 verbose=0,
120 dry_run=0):
121
122 log.info(string.join(cmd, ' '))
123 if dry_run:
124 return
125 exec_fn = search_path and os.execvp or os.execv
126
127 pid = os.fork()
128
129 if pid == 0: # in the child
130 try:
131 #print "cmd[0] =", cmd[0]
132 #print "cmd =", cmd
133 exec_fn(cmd[0], cmd)
134 except OSError, e:
135 sys.stderr.write("unable to execute %s: %s\n" %
136 (cmd[0], e.strerror))
137 os._exit(1)
138
139 sys.stderr.write("unable to execute %s for unknown reasons" % cmd[0])
140 os._exit(1)
141
142
143 else: # in the parent
144 # Loop until the child either exits or is terminated by a signal
145 # (ie. keep waiting if it's merely stopped)
146 while 1:
147 (pid, status) = os.waitpid(pid, 0)
148 if os.WIFSIGNALED(status):
149 raise DistutilsExecError, \
150 "command '%s' terminated by signal %d" % \
151 (cmd[0], os.WTERMSIG(status))
152
153 elif os.WIFEXITED(status):
154 exit_status = os.WEXITSTATUS(status)
155 if exit_status == 0:
156 return # hey, it succeeded!
157 else:
158 raise DistutilsExecError, \
159 "command '%s' failed with exit status %d" % \
160 (cmd[0], exit_status)
161
162 elif os.WIFSTOPPED(status):
163 continue
164
165 else:
166 raise DistutilsExecError, \
167 "unknown error executing '%s': termination status %d" % \
168 (cmd[0], status)
169 # _spawn_posix ()
170
171
172 def find_executable(executable, path=None):
173 """Try to find 'executable' in the directories listed in 'path' (a
174 string listing directories separated by 'os.pathsep'; defaults to
175 os.environ['PATH']). Returns the complete filename or None if not
176 found.
177 """
178 if path is None:
179 path = os.environ['PATH']
180 paths = string.split(path, os.pathsep)
181 (base, ext) = os.path.splitext(executable)
182 if (sys.platform == 'win32' or os.name == 'os2') and (ext != '.exe'):
183 executable = executable + '.exe'
184 if not os.path.isfile(executable):
185 for p in paths:
186 f = os.path.join(p, executable)
187 if os.path.isfile(f):
188 # the file exists, we have a shot at spawn working
189 return f
190 return None
191 else:
192 return executable
193
194 # find_executable()