Sat Nov 30 21:07:06 GMT 2013 Colin Watson * .bzrignore: Move to ... * .gitignore: ... here, adjusting for differences between bzr and git. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Replace .bzrignore with .gitignore. * gnulib: Add --no-vc-files. Wed Nov 27 10:50:43 GMT 2013 Colin Watson * configure.ac: Only call AC_PROG_AR if it is defined, to restore compatibility with Automake 1.10 (thanks, Mathieu Malaterre; Debian bug #730191). * NEWS: Document this. Wed Nov 27 10:48:16 GMT 2013 Colin Watson Upgrade to Automake 1.14, Gettext 0.18.3, and Gnulib 20130805. Sun Jun 23 12:44:09 BST 2013 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline-private.h (struct pipeline): Make want_infile and want_outfile non-const. * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_join): Take copies of p1->want_infile and p2->want_outfile. (pipeline_want_infile): Take a copy of file. (pipeline_want_outfile): Likewise. (pipeline_free): Free p->want_infile and p->want_outfile. * NEWS: Document this. Sun Jun 23 12:40:32 BST 2013 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (argstr_get_word, pipeline_free): Remove unnecessary tests before freeing pointers. Sat Jun 22 17:12:03 BST 2013 Colin Watson * tests/common.c (temp_dir_setup): Fail the test if mkdtemp fails. Thu Jun 6 12:43:06 BST 2013 Colin Watson * Version: 1.2.4. * lib/Makefile.am (libpipeline_la_LDFLAGS): Bump -version-info to 3:4:2. Thu Jun 6 12:38:07 BST 2013 Colin Watson * NEWS: Document changes since 1.2.3. Wed Jun 5 20:28:59 BST 2013 Colin Watson Provide a replacement clearenv for non-glibc systems that lack it (Savannah bug #36848). * gnulib: Import environ module. * configure.ac: Check for clearenv. * lib/pipeline.c [!HAVE_CLEARENV] (clearenv): New replacement function. * lib/pipeline-private.h [!HAVE_CLEARENV] (clearenv): Add prototype. Wed Jun 5 20:18:23 BST 2013 Colin Watson * aclocal.m4: Upgrade to Gettext 0.18.2.1. Wed Jun 5 20:12:11 BST 2013 Colin Watson * tools/config.guess: Update to 2013-05-16. * tools/config.sub: Update to 2013-04-24. Wed Jun 5 18:01:47 BST 2013 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.h (pipecmd_clearenv): Add a warning about use of this function. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build individual commands): Likewise. Wed Jun 5 10:31:01 BST 2013 Colin Watson Quieten warnings from compiling Gnulib. * m4/pipeline-gcc-warning.m4: Remove. * gnulib: Import warnings module. * configure.ac: Replace PIPELINE_GCC_WARNING with gl_WARN_ADD. * lib/Makefile.am (AM_CFLAGS): Add $(WARN_CFLAGS). * tests/Makefile.am (AM_CFLAGS): Likewise. Wed Jun 5 10:16:59 BST 2013 Colin Watson * tests/argstr.c, tests/basic.c, tests/exec.c, tests/inspect.c, tests/pump.c, tests/reading_long_line.c, tests/redirect.c: Define program_name (thanks, Fernando Lemos; see Savannah bug #36848). Wed Jun 5 10:12:29 BST 2013 Colin Watson * Makefile.in (DIST_COMMON): Regenerate, adding tools/depcomp. Thu May 30 13:28:08 BST 2013 Colin Watson Upgrade to Automake 1.13.2 and Gnulib 20130529. * .bzrignore: Add tests/*.log and tests/*.trs. * autogen.sh: Drop gnulib/gets.patch backport. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove gnulib/gets.patch. * gnulib/gets.patch: Remove. * tests/argstr.c, tests/basic.c, tests/exec.c, tests/inspect.c, tests/reading_long_line.c, tests/redirect.c: Include config.h. Wed Apr 24 07:48:26 BST 2013 Colin Watson * Version: 1.2.3. * lib/Makefile.am (libpipeline_la_LDFLAGS): Bump -version-info to 3:3:2. Wed Apr 24 07:44:38 BST 2013 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait_all): Free active_pipelines if it is entirely empty. Wed Apr 24 07:27:44 BST 2013 Peter Schiffer * lib/pipeline.c (pipecmd_new_argstr): Fix memory leak when the first word of argstr is "exec". * tests/argstr.c (test_argstr_exec): Free cmd at end. * tests/basic.c (test_basic_wait_all): Free statuses at end. (test_basic_clearenv): Free p and p2 at end. * tests/exec.c (test_exec_process, test_exec_function): Free cmd at end of loop. * tests/redirect.c (test_redirect_files): Free p and template at end. Tue Apr 23 07:52:40 BST 2013 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipecmd_exec): Flush stdio before starting a sequence. * NEWS: Document this. Tue Apr 23 07:50:45 BST 2013 Peter Schiffer Colin Watson Don't read uninitialised memory when testing for the end of long lines (Fedora bug #876108). * lib/pipeline.c (get_line): Fix incorrect memchr bounds. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add reading_long_line. (reading_long_line_SOURCES, reading_long_line_LDADD): Add. * tests/reading_long_line.c: New file. * .bzrignore: Add tests/reading_long_line. * NEWS: Document this. Mon Jan 21 11:42:09 GMT 2013 Colin Watson * configure.ac (AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT): Remove; superseded by Gnulib. Mon Jan 21 11:26:15 GMT 2013 Colin Watson Upgrade to Libtool 2.4.2-1.2 (from Debian). Mon Dec 24 02:23:37 GMT 2012 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Remove redundant condition. Mon Sep 17 22:54:12 BST 2012 Colin Watson * Version: 1.2.2. * lib/Makefile.am (libpipeline_la_LDFLAGS): Bump -version-info to 3:2:2. Mon Sep 17 22:52:58 BST 2012 Colin Watson * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add gnulib/gets.patch. Mon Sep 17 22:31:18 BST 2012 Colin Watson * release.sh: Use 'set -e' rather than '#! /bin/sh -e', to avoid accidents when debugging with 'sh -x'. Mon Sep 17 22:27:47 BST 2012 Colin Watson * NEWS: Document changes since 1.2.1. Mon Sep 17 22:23:59 BST 2012 Colin Watson * autogen.sh: Use 'set -e' rather than '#! /bin/sh -e', to avoid accidents when debugging with 'sh -x'. Mon Sep 17 22:21:44 BST 2012 Křištof Želechovski * configure.ac: Use AM_PROG_AR before LT_INIT, for compatibility with Automake 1.12. Mon Sep 17 22:05:04 BST 2012 Colin Watson Backport Gnulib commit 66712c23388e93e5c518ebc8515140fa0c807348 to stop assuming gets. * gnulib/gets.patch: New file. * autogen.sh: Apply gnulib/gets.patch. Mon Sep 17 22:03:09 BST 2012 Colin Watson Upgrade to Autoconf 2.69, Automake 1.11.6, and Gnulib 20120404-stable. Sun Mar 4 17:43:21 GMT 2012 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Flush stdio after emitting debugging output. Fri Mar 2 19:54:40 GMT 2012 Colin Watson * Version: 1.2.1. * lib/Makefile.am (libpipeline_la_LDFLAGS): Bump -version-info to 3:1:2. Thu Mar 1 22:51:30 GMT 2012 Colin Watson * NEWS: Correct date of 1.2.0 release. Wed Feb 29 20:09:12 GMT 2012 Martin Pollard * lib/pipeline.h: Enclose in extern "C" { } when compiling as C++. Wed Feb 29 18:26:22 GMT 2012 Colin Watson * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add pump. (pump_SOURCES, pump_LDADD): Add. * tests/pump.c: New file. * .bzrignore: Add tests/pump. Wed Feb 29 18:19:08 GMT 2012 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Create output files if they do not already exist, and truncate them if they do. * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_want_outfile): Document this. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build pipelines): Likewise. * tests/common.c: New file. * tests/common.h (TEST_CASE_WITH_FIXTURE): New macro. (temp_dir_setup, temp_dir_teardown): Add prototypes. * tests/redirect.c (test_redirect_outfile): New test. (redirect_suite): Call test_redirect_outfile. * tests/Makefile.am (basic_SOURCES, argstr_SOURCES, exec_SOURCES, inspect_SOURCES, redirect_SOURCES): Add common.c. * NEWS: Document this. Mon Feb 27 22:17:20 GMT 2012 Colin Watson * tests/exec.c (exit_helper, test_exit_function): Add test that pipecmd_exec works with functions. (exec_suite): Call test_exit_function. Thu Feb 9 12:04:26 GMT 2012 Colin Watson Upgrade to Automake 1.11.3. Sun Feb 5 02:33:14 GMT 2012 Colin Watson Upgrade to Automake 1.11.2 and Gnulib 20111211-stable. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove gnulib/m4/sockpfaf.m4, which was removed from this package some time ago. Add gnulib/m4/math_h.m4. Wed Dec 14 12:54:40 GMT 2011 Colin Watson * man/Makefile.am (FUNCTIONS): Add pipecmd_new_sequencev, pipeline_new_command_argv, pipeline_command_argv, pipeline_wait_all, and pipeline_run. Wed Dec 14 12:48:56 GMT 2011 Colin Watson Upgrade to Libtool 2.4.2. Mon Oct 10 09:22:41 BST 2011 Colin Watson * README: Document test suite dependencies. Suggested by Bruce Dubbs. Mon Sep 26 13:34:00 BST 2011 Colin Watson * man/libpipeline.3 (Reaping of child processes): Fix typo. Mon Sep 26 12:10:35 BST 2011 Colin Watson Upgrade to Gnulib 20110908-stable. Sat Apr 23 17:51:13 BST 2011 Colin Watson Upgrade to Autoconf 2.68, Libtool 2.4, and Gnulib 20110412-stable. Wed Mar 30 13:40:42 BST 2011 Colin Watson * gnulib: Import full-write, safe-read, and safe-write modules. * lib/pipeline.c (passthrough): Use safe_read instead of read. Use full_write instead of fwrite (stdio is not necessarily EINTR-safe). (pipeline_pump): Use safe_write instead of write and a manual EINTR check. (get_block): Use safe_read instead of read. * NEWS: Document this. Fri Mar 18 22:27:39 GMT 2011 Colin Watson * Version: 1.2.0. * lib/Makefile.am (libpipeline_la_LDFLAGS): Bump -version-info to 3:0:2. Fri Mar 18 18:24:42 GMT 2011 Colin Watson * man/Makefile.am (FUNCTIONS): Add pipeline_get_pid. Fri Mar 18 18:22:42 GMT 2011 Colin Watson * tests/inspect.c (pid_helper): Flush stdout before pausing. Fri Mar 18 12:08:51 GMT 2011 Colin Watson * gnulib: Import waitpid module. Fri Mar 18 12:02:42 GMT 2011 Colin Watson Upgrade to Gnulib 20110216-stable. Fri Mar 18 11:45:10 GMT 2011 Colin Watson * tests/basic.c (test_basic_clearenv): Test that pipecmd_clearenv and pipecmd_setenv survive pipecmd_dup. Tue Mar 8 14:10:52 GMT 2011 Colin Watson Add a function to get process IDs of commands in started pipelines (Savannah bug #32710). * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_get_pid): New function. * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_get_pid): Add prototype. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build pipelines): Document pipeline_get_pid. * tests/inspect.c (pid_helper, test_inspect_pid): Test pipeline_get_pid. * NEWS: Document this. Mon Mar 7 10:41:50 GMT 2011 Colin Watson * configure.ac: Check for working fork(2). Sat Dec 11 15:01:14 GMT 2010 Colin Watson * Version: 1.1.0. * lib/Makefile.am (libpipeline_la_LDFLAGS): Bump -version-info to 2:0:1. Sat Dec 11 15:00:02 GMT 2010 Colin Watson * man/Makefile.am (FUNCTIONS): Add pipecmd_get_nargs, pipecmd_clearenv, and pipecmd_exec. Sat Dec 11 13:25:29 GMT 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.h (pipecmd_get_nargs): Clarify that the command name is counted as the first argument. * man/libpipeline.3 (pipecmd_get_nargs): Likewise. * tests/basic.c (test_basic_args): Correct off-by-one error. Mon Dec 6 20:54:29 GMT 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipecmd_get_nargs): New function. * lib/pipeline.h (pipecmd_get_nargs): Add prototype. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build individual commands): Document pipecmd_get_nargs. * tests/basic.c (test_basic_args): Test pipecmd_get_nargs. * NEWS: Document this. Mon Dec 6 20:07:43 GMT 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipecmd_clearenv): New function. (pipecmd_dup, pipecmd_dump, pipecmd_tostring, pipecmd_exec): Handle cmd->env[i].name being NULL. * lib/pipeline.h (pipecmd_clearenv): Add prototype. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build individual commands): Document pipecmd_clearenv. * tests/basic.c (test_basic_clearenv): Add test. (basic_suite): Call test_basic_clearenv. * NEWS: Document this. Sun Nov 28 14:49:42 GMT 2010 Colin Watson * NEWS: Note date of 1.0.0 release. Sun Nov 28 14:47:03 GMT 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipecmd_start_child): Rename to ... (pipecmd_exec): ... this, and make external. Update all callers. * lib/pipeline.h (pipecmd_exec): Add prototype. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build individual commands): Document pipecmd_exec. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add exec. (exec_SOURCES, exec_LDADD): Add. * tests/exec.c: New file. * .bzrignore: Add tests/exec. * NEWS: Document this. Sun Nov 28 13:43:45 GMT 2010 Colin Watson * gnulib: Remove mkstemp module. Add sys_stat module. Tue Nov 16 17:25:08 GMT 2010 Colin Watson * man/libpipeline.3 (EXAMPLES): Clarify pipeline_readline example: show calls to pipeline_want_out and pipeline_start. Tue Nov 2 16:56:22 GMT 2010 Colin Watson * README (Building programs with libpipeline): Recommend -Wformat. Fri Oct 29 07:34:05 BST 2010 Colin Watson * Version: 1.0.0. Fri Oct 29 07:25:14 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_install_post_fork): Clarify that this is run in the child process. (pipeline_wait_all): Clarify that SIGPIPE is considered equivalent to exiting zero. * man/libpipeline.3 (DESCRIPTION): Update descriptions of pipeline_install_post_fork and pipeline_wait_all to match this. (Functions to read output from pipelines): Note that output is returned as a pointer into a pipeline-owned buffer. Fri Oct 29 06:21:02 BST 2010 Colin Watson * TODO: New file. Fri Oct 29 06:20:18 BST 2010 Colin Watson * README (Credits): New section. Fri Oct 29 06:11:37 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipecmd_new_sequencev): New function. (pipecmd_new_sequence): Rewrite in terms of pipecmd_new_sequence. (pipeline_new_command_argv): New function. (pipeline_new_command_args): Rewrite in terms of pipeline_new_command_argv. (pipeline_command_argv): New function. (pipeline_command_args): Rewrite in terms of pipeline_command_argv. * lib/pipeline.h (pipecmd_new_sequencev, pipeline_new_command_argv, pipeline_command_argv): Add prototypes. * man/libpipeline.3 (DESCRIPTION): Document pipecmd_new_sequencev, pipeline_new_command_argv, and pipeline_command_argv. * tests/basic.c (test_basic_sequence): Add test. (basic_suite): Call test_basic_sequence. Fri Oct 29 05:25:19 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait): Rename to ... (pipeline_wait_all): ... this. Return 127 rather than 1 if closing the pipeline output fails. Return 127 if a command other than the last one fails. Return the statuses and the number of statuses in new output parameters if they are non-NULL. (pipeline_wait): Add new wrapper function. * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_wait_all): Add prototype. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to run pipelines and handle signals): Document pipeline_wait_all. * tests/basic.c (test_basic_wait_all): Add test. (basic_suite): Call test_basic_wait_all. Fri Oct 29 03:46:39 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_new): Default ignore_signals to 0. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build pipelines): Update pipeline_ignore_signals documentation. Fri Oct 29 03:43:29 BST 2010 Colin Watson * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build pipelines): Rephrase description of want_out and want_in handling in terms of public function calls. Fri Oct 29 03:30:45 BST 2010 Colin Watson * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build individual commands): Document variable arguments to pipecmd_new_sequence. (Functions to build pipelines): Explain analogy of pipeline_connect to tee(1). Fri Oct 29 03:13:21 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c, lib/pipeline.h, lib/pipeline-private.h: Rename command to pipecmd, command_* to pipecmd_*, and COMMAND_* to PIPECMD_*. Update all callers and documentation references. * lib/Makefile.am (libpipeline_la_LDFLAGS): Adjust -export-symbols-regex to export pipecmd_* rather than command_*. Fri Oct 29 03:00:51 BST 2010 Colin Watson * man/libpipeline.3 (DESCRIPTION): Various minor corrections and clarifications from Ian Jackson. (BUGS): New section. Tue Oct 26 21:09:53 BST 2010 Colin Watson * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add argstr. (argstr_SOURCES, argstr_LDADD): Add. * tests/argstr.c: New file. * .bzrignore: Add tests/argstr. Mon Oct 25 21:56:08 BST 2010 Colin Watson * tests/inspect.c (test_inspect_command): Free the result of command_tostring. (test_inspect_pipeline): Free the result of pipeline_tostring. Mon Oct 25 20:25:11 BST 2010 Colin Watson Revert our patched version of xstrdup, since none of libpipeline's calls to xstrdup rely on being able to pass NULL to it. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove gnulib/lib/xmalloc.c.orig and gnulib/lib/xmalloc.patch. * autogen.sh: Stop applying gnulib/lib/xmalloc.patch. * gnulib/lib/xmalloc.c.orig, gnulib/lib/xmalloc.patch: Remove. Mon Oct 25 20:10:25 BST 2010 Colin Watson * README (Building programs with libpipeline): New section. Mon Oct 25 19:39:06 BST 2010 Colin Watson * man/Makefile.am (FUNCTIONS): Add command_nice, command_discard_err, command_unsetenv, pipeline_new_command_args, pipeline_get_ncommands, pipeline_get_command, pipeline_set_command, pipeline_want_in, pipeline_want_out, pipeline_want_infile, pipeline_want_outfile, and pipeline_ignore_signals. Mon Oct 25 19:31:27 BST 2010 Colin Watson * tests/basic.c: Include . Mon Oct 25 19:31:09 BST 2010 Colin Watson * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add inspect. (inspect_SOURCES, inspect_LDADD): Add. * tests/inspect.c: New file. * .bzrignore: Add tests/inspect. Mon Oct 25 19:18:35 BST 2010 Colin Watson * tests/common.h: New file. * tests/basic.c (basic_suite, main), tests/redirect.c (redirect_suite, main): Use new TEST_CASE and MAIN macros. * tests/Makefile.am (basic_SOURCES, redirect_SOURCES): Add common.h. Mon Oct 25 16:17:24 BST 2010 Colin Watson * gnulib: Import unsetenv module. * lib/pipeline.c (command_unsetenv): New function. (command_dup, command_dump, command_tostring): Check for NULL cmd->env[i].value. (command_start_child): If cmd->env[i].value is NULL, call unsetenv rather than setenv. * lib/pipeline.h (command_unsetenv): Add prototype. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build individual commands): Document command_unsetenv. * tests/basic.c (test_basic_setenv, test_basic_unsetenv): New tests. (basic_suite): Call test_basic_setenv and test_basic_unsetenv. Mon Oct 25 14:31:41 BST 2010 Colin Watson * gnulib: Import mkstemp module. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add redirect. (LIBPIPELINE): Rename to ... (LIBS): ... this, and add libgnu and $(LTLIBOBJS). (AM_CPPFLAGS): Add -I$(top_srcdir)/gnulib/lib and -I$(top_builddir)/gnulib/lib. (clean-local): Remove temporary test files. (basic_LDADD): Use $(LIBS) rather than $(LIBPIPELINE). (redirect_SOURCES, redirect_LDADD): Add. * tests/redirect.c: New file. * .bzrignore: Add gnulib/lib/time.h and tests/redirect. * lib/Makefile.am (libpipeline_la_CPPFLAGS): Remove spurious -I$(top_builddir)/include. Mon Oct 25 14:30:14 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Fix typo that broke pipeline_want_infile. Mon Oct 25 13:38:40 BST 2010 Colin Watson Start test suite. * lib/Makefile.am (libpipeline_la_LDFLAGS): Remove -module; this introduces too many complications for now. * configure.ac: Test for check >= 0.9.4. (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Add tests/Makefile. * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add tests if check was found. * tests/Makefile.am: New file. * tests/basic.c: New file. * .bzrignore: Add tests/basic. Sun Oct 24 22:22:21 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (command_start_child): Add trailing newline to "nice failed" debug message. Sun Oct 24 22:21:20 BST 2010 Colin Watson Make command and pipeline opaque types. * lib/pipeline.c (command_nice, command_discard_err, pipeline_get_ncommands, pipeline_get_command, pipeline_set_command, pipeline_want_in, pipeline_want_out, pipeline_want_infile, pipeline_want_outfile, pipeline_ignore_signals): New functions. * lib/pipeline.h (command_nice, command_discard_err, pipeline_get_ncommands, pipeline_get_command, pipeline_set_command, pipeline_want_in, pipeline_want_out, pipeline_want_infile, pipeline_want_outfile, pipeline_ignore_signals): Add prototypes. * man/libpipeline.3 (DESCRIPTION): Document new functions. * lib/pipeline.h (enum command_tag, struct command_env, struct command, struct pipeline): Move to ... * lib/pipeline-private.h (enum command_tag, struct command_env, struct command, struct pipeline): ... here. * man/libpipeline.3 (Public command fields, Public pipeline fields): Remove. Redirections are now handled slightly differently internally, allowing redirection from/to fd 0. * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_new, pipeline_join): Set redirect_in and redirect_out. (pipeline_connect): Use pipeline_want_in and pipeline_want_out. Check source->redirect_out. (pipeline_start): Handle new redirection semantics. * man/libpipeline.3 (EXAMPLES): Use pipeline_want_infile. * man/libpipeline.3 (DESCRIPTION): Document string copying. (Reaping of child processes): New subsection. Tue Oct 19 01:43:29 BST 2010 Colin Watson Make debugging work properly in a library context. * lib/debug.c (init_debug): Check whether we've already been initialised. (debug): Call init_debug. * lib/pipeline-private.h (init_debug): Add prototype. * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start, pipeline_wait): Call init_debug. Tue Oct 19 01:42:47 BST 2010 Colin Watson * man/libpipeline.3: Bump licence header to GPLv3, since that more accurately describes the whole package. Tue Oct 19 01:41:59 BST 2010 Colin Watson * man/Makefile.am (install-data-hook): Handle repeated installations. (uninstall-hook): Add. Tue Oct 19 01:39:54 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline-private.h: Move attribute macros to ... * lib/pipeline.h: ... here, and make them namespace-safe. Update all users. Mon Oct 18 11:32:52 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_run): This would be a more convenient wrapper for the common case if it freed the pipeline as well, so do that. (Callers that don't want this should call pipeline_start and pipeline_wait separately.) * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_run): Update comment. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build pipelines): Update pipeline_run documentation. (EXAMPLES): Remove now-unnecessary calls to pipeline_free. Mon Oct 18 11:29:11 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_new_command_args): New function. * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_new_command_args): Add prototype. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to build pipelines): Add pipeline_new_command_args. (EXAMPLES): Use this to describe the simplest case. Mon Oct 18 11:10:27 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_run): New function. * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_run): Add prototype. * man/libpipeline.3 (Functions to run pipelines and handle signals): Add pipeline_run. (EXAMPLES): Use it. Mon Oct 18 11:07:16 BST 2010 Colin Watson * man/libpipeline.3 (DESCRIPTION): Add some more paragraph breaks. Fri Oct 15 10:26:02 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/libpipeline.pc.in: Add copyright/licensing comment. * man/libpipeline.3: Add brief licensing comment. Thu Oct 14 00:49:34 BST 2010 Colin Watson * README (Copyright and licensing): Bump to GPLv3 or later, for clarity. (lib/* remains licensed under GPLv2 or later, but the work as a whole is GPLv3 or later.) Move further advice to ... (Note on GPL versions): ... here, and expand. Tue Oct 12 01:12:13 BST 2010 Colin Watson * README: New file. * INSTALL: New file. Tue Oct 12 01:01:04 BST 2010 Colin Watson * COPYING: New file. * autogen.sh: Add a copyright/licence notice. * configure.ac: Likewise. * lib/pipeline-private.h: Update copyright years. Tue Oct 12 00:52:00 BST 2010 Colin Watson * man/libpipeline.3: Add a licence notice. Tue Oct 12 00:27:01 BST 2010 Colin Watson * autogen.sh: Stop setting AUTOPOINT=true. * configure.ac: Stop echoing DBLIBS (specific to man-db). Tue Oct 12 00:22:00 BST 2010 Colin Watson * configure.ac: Remove check for gnulib/po/Makefile.in.in. Tue Oct 12 00:17:53 BST 2010 Colin Watson Remove gettext support. It's overkill for a library considering that we only emit error messages, and it vastly inflates the size of our configuration requirements. * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Remove gnulib/po and po. (EXTRA_DIST): Remove everything except gnulib/m4/sockpfaf.m4. * autogen.sh: Remove call to autopoint and removal of po/ChangeLog. * configure.ac: Remove calls to AM_GNU_GETTEXT and AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION. Stop substituting LINGUAS. (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Remove gnulib/po/Makefile.in and po/Makefile.in. * gnulib/m4/gnulib-cache.m4: Remove --po-base and --po-domain options. Remove gettext module. * lib/Makefile.am (libpipeline_la_LIBADD): Remove @LTLIBINTL@. * lib/pipeline.c (command_new_argstr, command_start_child), pipeline_get_infile, pipeline_get_outfile, pipeline_install_sigchld, pipeline_start, pipeline_wait, pipeline_pump): Remove gettext support. * po/*: Remove. * .bzrignore: Remove gnulib/po and po/*. Mon Oct 11 21:25:37 BST 2010 Colin Watson * autogen.sh: Remove po/ChangeLog after running autoreconf. * .bzrignore: Remove po/ChangeLog. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add gnulib/m4/codeset.m4, gnulib/m4/fcntl-o.m4, and gnulib/m4/glibc21.m4. * po/LINGUAS: New file. Mon Oct 11 18:19:37 BST 2010 Colin Watson * man/Makefile.am (man3_MANS): Move to ... (dist_man3_MANS): ... here. Mon Oct 11 17:51:16 BST 2010 Colin Watson * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add man. * configure.ac (AC_PROG_LN_S): Add. (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Add man/Makefile. * man/Makefile.am: New file. * man/libpipeline.3: New file. Mon Oct 11 16:38:29 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_pump): Mention in comment that arguments must be NULL-terminated. Mon Oct 11 14:10:54 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_new_commandv): Fix comment. Thu Oct 7 08:05:41 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/libpipeline.pc.in: New file. * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Add lib/libpipeline.pc. * lib/Makefile.am (pkgconfigdir, pkgconfig_DATA): Install libpipeline.pc to $(libdir)/pkgconfig. * .bzrignore: Add lib/libpipeline.pc. Thu Oct 7 07:56:27 BST 2010 Colin Watson * po/libpipeline.pot: Update. * po/*.po: Import translations from man-db. Thu Oct 7 07:54:12 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/Makefile.am (libpipeline_la_SOURCES): Add pipeline-private.h. Thu Oct 7 07:49:46 BST 2010 Colin Watson * release.sh: New file, from man-db. Thu Oct 7 07:48:12 BST 2010 Colin Watson Build independently from man-db. Many new files from gettextize, gnulib-tool, and autoreconf. * lib/appendstr.c: New file, from man-db. * lib/debug.c: Likewise. * m4/pipeline-gcc-warning.m4: Likewise. * m4/pipeline-socketpair.m4: Likewise. * lib/pipeline-private.h: New file. * lib/pipeline.c (command_new_argstr): Use strcmp rather than STREQ. (pipeline_install_post_fork): New function. (pipeline_start): Call post-fork handler rather than hardcoding pop_all_cleanups. * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_install_post_fork): Add prototype. * lib/pipeline.c: Update copyright notice for libpipeline. * lib/pipeline.h: Likewise. * gnulib: Import dirname, error, gettext, lib-ignore, setenv, sigaction, signal, sigprocmask, strerror, strsignal, sys_select, xalloc, xstrndup, and xvasprintf modules. * Makefile.am: New file. * NEWS: New file. * autogen.sh: New file. * configure.ac: New file. * lib/Makefile.am: New file. * .bzrignore: New file. Entries below this point are edited versions of entries in man-db. Sun Oct 3 23:57:45 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (command_argf): New function. * lib/pipeline.h (command_argf): Add prototype. Sun Oct 3 22:34:13 BST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (reap_children, pipeline_sigchld, pipeline_install_sigchld): Move above pipeline_start. (pipeline_install_sigchld): Make static. Return immediately if already installed. (pipeline_start): Call pipeline_install_sigchld. * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_start): Document that this installs a SIGCHLD handler. (pipeline_install_sigchld): Remove prototype. Tue Mar 2 10:04:54 GMT 2010 Colin Watson Fix assertion failure on 'man -l' with an uncompressed page and prefixed input (no-hyphenation, no-justification, or a non-English page). * lib/pipeline.c (command_new_passthrough): New function. * lib/pipeline.h (command_new_passthrough): Add prototype. Mon Feb 1 12:18:36 PST 2010 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait): Don't bother printing error messages for SIGINT and SIGQUIT, since these correspond to explicit user actions (Debian bug #568000). Wed Jan 13 23:42:00 GMT 2010 Werner Fink Add support for using socketpair(2) as a replacement for pipe(2), which is faster on some systems (Savannah patch #6741). * lib/pipeline.c [USE_SOCKETPAIR_PIPE]: Redefine pipe() to a construction based on socketpair(). Tue Jan 12 13:33:51 GMT 2010 Samuel Thibault * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_pump): Fix off-by-one error when write returns EAGAIN (Debian bug #564818). Sat Nov 14 18:52:15 GMT 2009 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (argstr_get_word): Fix a small memory leak. Sat Nov 14 10:23:28 GMT 2009 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (command_new_sequence, command_sequence_command): New functions. (command_dup, command_dump, command_tostring, command_free): Handle commands of type COMMAND_SEQUENCE. (pipeline_start): Move command execution to ... (command_start_child): ... here (new function). Handle commands of type COMMAND_SEQUENCE. * lib/pipeline.h (enum command_tag): Add COMMAND_SEQUENCE. (struct command): Add support for commands that consist of a sequence of commands. (command_new_sequence, command_sequence_command): Add prototypes. Thu Sep 24 12:32:48 BST 2009 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_pump): When a source pipeline dies, make sure to drain its output before discarding its output file descriptor (Debian bug #548153). We still record the death to avoid duplicate debugging messages. Sun Aug 23 15:49:45 BST 2009 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (command_dup): Fix newcmd->nenv assertion. Sun Aug 23 15:41:32 BST 2009 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (command_dup, command_setenv): cmd->env does not need to be { NULL, NULL }-terminated. Sun Aug 23 00:04:56 BST 2009 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (command_setenv): New function, allowing application code to ask for environment variables to be set when a command is executed. (command_new, command_new_function, command_dup, command_dump, command_tostring, command_free): Handle new nenv, env_max, and env members of 'struct command'. (argstr_get_word): Add TODO comment for environment variable support. (pipeline_start): Set environment variables as requested. * lib/pipeline.h (struct command_env): New structure. (struct command): Add nenv, env_max, and env members. (command_setenv): Add prototype. Sun Jun 28 01:47:51 BST 2009 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_free): Free buffer and line_cache. Sun Jun 28 01:40:24 BST 2009 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (get_line): Limit newline search to the data length returned by get_block, fixing an assertion failure. Sat May 30 12:50:44 BST 2009 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Check the return value of nice. Mon Nov 17 11:07:50 GMT 2008 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (command_new_function): Initialise discard_err. (pipeline_start): Zero-initialise pids and statuses arrays on allocation, and don'\''t unblock SIGCHLD until after doing so. Mon Nov 17 00:39:14 GMT 2008 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait): Mangle return value into a value suitable for passing to exit (Debian bug #477305). Mon Sep 8 09:09:06 BST 2008 Colin Watson Add support for freeing command_function data. * lib/pipeline.c (command_new_function): Add free_func argument. (command_dup): Copy it. (pipeline_connect): Adjust command_new_function call. (pipeline_start): Free command_function data before exiting. (pipeline_wait): Free command_function data while cleaning up pipeline. * lib/pipeline.h: Add command_function_free_type typedef. (struct command [struct command_function]): Add free_func member. (command_new_function): Update prototype. Thu Jul 31 00:51:58 BST 2008 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_pump): Free known_source before returning (Coverity CID #15). Sun May 4 23:16:59 BST 2008 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start, pipeline_pump): Zero sigaction structures before using them. (I believe we set all required fields anyway; this is just an extra safety catch.) Sun Apr 27 11:24:24 BST 2008 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_sigchld): assert is not async-signal-safe, so avoid calling it in a signal handler and use an if guard instead (Ubuntu bug #221635, although exactly why the assertion is failing there is unclear). Sun Feb 17 17:13:55 GMT 2008 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait): Call strsignal rather than xstrsignal. Sun Jan 27 13:42:31 GMT 2008 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_join): Initialise source, buffer, buflen, bufmax, line_cache, and peek_offset. Sun Jan 27 13:37:17 GMT 2008 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.h (struct pipeline): Add ignore_signals member. * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_new): Initialise ignore_signals to 1. (pipeline_join): Set ignore_signals if either input pipeline has it set. (pipeline_start): Only ignore SIGINT and SIGQUIT if ignore_signals is set. (pipeline_wait): Only restore SIGINT and SIGQUIT if ignore_signals is set. Sun Jan 6 15:01:08 GMT 2008 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start, pipeline_wait, pipeline_install_sigchld, pipeline_pump): Call sigaction rather than xsigaction. Wed Jan 2 23:30:33 GMT 2008 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (passthrough): Use STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO, and STDERR_FILENO macros rather than calling fileno. Mon Dec 31 10:02:28 GMT 2007 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (passthrough): New helper function. (pipeline_connect): Add special (kludge) handling for zero-command sinks. (pipeline_pump): Add minor commentary. Wed Oct 17 21:05:50 BST 2007 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c: Assume and . Remove duplicate inclusion. (command_new): Use base_name. Mon Oct 8 02:24:19 BST 2007 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (get_block): Use xrealloc instead of realloc. Mon Oct 8 02:09:55 BST 2007 Colin Watson The strappend function is in the namespace reserved by C99 7.26.10/7.26.11; rename it to appendstr. * lib/pipeline.c: Update all callers. Mon Sep 17 00:11:38 UTC 2007 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Break after execvp, otherwise we segfault if execvp fails. Fri Aug 31 04:54:45 BST 2007 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_free): Call pipeline_wait if the pipeline is still running. * lib/pipeline.h (pipeline_free): Document that this may happen. Tue Aug 28 17:19:16 BST 2007 Colin Watson Implement and use a decompression library. This allows cat pages to be saved in the background (Debian bug #18452) and operation with a read-only /tmp (Debian bug #165499). * lib/pipeline.h (struct command): Add support for commands that consist of calling a function rather than executing a process. (struct pipeline): Add want_infile and want_outfile members. Note that infile and outfile default to NULL. Add source, buffer, buflen, bufmax, line_cache, and peek_offset members. (command_new_function, command_dump, command_tostring, pipeline_connect, pipeline_pump, pipeline_read, pipeline_peek, pipeline_peek_size, pipeline_peek_skip, pipeline_readline, pipeline_peekline): New prototypes. (pipeline_join): Update description for want_infile and want_outfile. * lib/pipeline.c (command_new, command_dup, command_arg, command_argv, command_args, command_argstr, command_free): Update for 'struct command' changes. (command_new_function, command_dump, command_tostring): New functions. (pipeline_new, pipeline_join, pipeline_dump, pipeline_tostring): Update for 'struct pipeline' changes. (pipeline_dump): Use command_dump. (pipeline_tostring): Use command_tostring. (pipeline_start): Implement want_infile, want_outfile, and function commands. Make zero-command case work properly (read directly from input file). Flush all pending stdio output so that subprocesses don't inherit it. (pipeline_connect, pipeline_pump, get_block, pipeline_read, pipeline_peek, pipeline_peek_size, pipeline_peek_skip, get_line, pipeline_readline, pipeline_peekline): New functions. Mon Aug 27 20:02:17 BST 2007 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait): Re-raise SIGINT or SIGQUIT if they terminate a subprocess. Mon Aug 27 19:58:19 BST 2007 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait): Return 1 if we fail to close the pipeline's output. Mon Aug 20 00:10:49 BST 2007 Colin Watson Discard stderr from formatting processes when outputting to a pager, to avoid visual corruption from any error messages (thanks, Vincent Lefevre; Debian bug #372939). * lib/pipeline.h (struct command): Add discard_err member. * lib/pipeline.c (command_new, command_dup): Initialise discard_err. (pipeline_start): Redirect the child's stderr to /dev/null if discard_err is set. Sun Mar 4 00:51:30 GMT 2007 Colin Watson Eliminate variable and function shadowing. * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Remove duplicate declarations of set and oset. Wed Feb 28 22:04:04 GMT 2007 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Close inputs and outputs from other active pipelines in all subprocesses. Wed Feb 28 21:57:24 GMT 2007 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Don't ignore SIGPIPE in subprocesses; this has undesirable consequences in some situations. (pipeline_wait): Flatten SIGPIPE exit statuses to zero instead. Tue Feb 27 20:58:31 GMT 2007 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Save previous value of SIGQUIT such that it gets restored as SIGQUIT, not as SIGINT. Mon Jan 8 10:39:24 GMT 2007 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start, pipeline_wait, pipeline_install_sigchld): Use xsigaction instead of sigaction-plus-EINTR-check. Tue Dec 26 14:27:59 GMT 2006 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c: Include "gettext.h" rather than . Make sure not to include before "gettext.h", for portability to Solaris. Sun Sep 17 09:20:33 BST 2006 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Ignore SIGPIPE in child processes (Debian bug #387864). Wed Feb 22 09:44:02 GMT 2006 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (command_new_argstr): Skip "exec" at the start of a command, to make old configuration files work (Debian bug #353959). Wed Sep 21 10:56:22 BST 2005 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait): Queue SIGCHLD for the whole time we're collecting child process statuses; we need to keep a careful count of processes. Forget any previous errno before calling reap_children. Should fix Debian bug #326488. Wed Sep 21 10:10:12 BST 2005 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start, pipeline_wait): Ignore SIGINT and SIGQUIT in the parent while running subprocesses (Debian bug #328982). Thu Sep 1 14:10:07 BST 2005 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (argstr_get_word): Use an enum for quotemode rather than magic numbers. Mon Jul 11 18:12:58 BST 2005 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait): Emit a debugging message. Mon Jul 11 14:41:52 BST 2005 Colin Watson * include/manconfig.h.in: Define ATTRIBUTE_SENTINEL to a function attribute enabling sentinel checking if using GCC 4.0 or newer. (strappend): Use it. * lib/pipeline.h (command_new_args, command_args, pipeline_new_commands, pipeline_command_args, pipeline_commands): Likewise. Sun Dec 12 21:48:04 CET 2004 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_sigchld): Don't bother saving and restoring errno if SIGCHLD is being queued. Sun Nov 7 16:07:26 GMT 2004 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait): Close pipeline output before reaping processes, so that writing processes get SIGPIPE. Sun Nov 7 16:05:08 GMT 2004 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait): Fix active process debugging output to include processes without statuses. Mon Mar 8 11:21:05 GMT 2004 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_dump): Show caller-supplied input and output file descriptors. * lib/pipeline.c (command_free, pipeline_free): Return safely if argument is NULL. * lib/pipeline.h (command_free, pipeline_free): Document NULL arguments as a safe no-op, like free(). Sun Sep 21 02:17:43 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Dump pipeline in debugging mode. Thu Aug 28 00:40:09 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Change "couldn't exec %s" to "can't execute %s" in line with src/man.c, to make translators' lives easier. (pipeline_wait): Separate "%s: %s%s" into two translatable strings: the "(core dumped)" portion should definitely be translated. Fri Aug 15 18:05:37 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c: Include instead of relying on basename() prototype in manconfig.h. Sat Aug 9 18:28:01 BST 2003 Colin Watson Replace the old "wait() for one child at a time" approach with a SIGCHLD-handling edifice that collects children's exit statuses as they die. * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_new): Initialize statuses. (pipeline_join): Set statuses to NULL in joined pipeline. (pipeline_join, pipeline_get_infile, pipeline_get_outfile, pipeline_start, pipeline_wait): Assert that statuses field is NULL or non-NULL as appropriate. (pipeline_free): Free statuses if necessary. (pipeline_start): Add p to a new active_pipelines array, to be used while reaping children. Initialize statuses elements to -1. Block SIGCHLD while forking children. (reap_children): New function. Delivers collected exit statuses into statuses fields of entries in active_pipelines. (pipeline_wait): Rather than wait()ing manually here, check whether any statuses have been picked up by the SIGCHLD handler, and if not call reap_children(). Remove now-obsolete TODO comment. (pipeline_sigchld): New function, the SIGCHLD handler. (pipeline_install_sigchld): New function, to be called once per program. (pipeline_start, pipeline_wait): Add minimal debugging information. * lib/pipeline.h: Prototype new functions. (struct pipeline): New statuses member. Sat Aug 9 17:00:12 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (command_dup): Copy cmd->nice. (pipeline_command): Correct condition for growing commands array. Mon Aug 4 19:35:26 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (command_dup): Terminate argv with a NULL. (command_dup, command_arg): Assert that argc < argv_max after changing either. Mon Aug 4 19:30:22 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_dump): New function to dump a printable representation of a pipeline to a stream. (pipeline_tostring): Likewise, but to a newly allocated string. * lib/pipeline.h: Prototype these. Mon Aug 4 12:03:38 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (argstr_get_word): Plug some memory leaks. Mon Aug 4 01:05:12 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_wait): The return value was a bit groff-specific. Now just return the status of the last command in the pipeline, as reported by wait(). Mon Aug 4 00:31:44 BST 2003 Colin Watson Add support for getting stdio streams for input and output. Needs library support because pipeline_wait() needs to know to close the stream rather than the underlying file descriptor. * lib/pipeline.h (struct pipeline): New infile and outfile members. (pipeline_get_infile, pipeline_get_outfile): Add prototypes. * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_new): Initialize infile and outfile. (pipeline_join): Likewise. (pipeline_get_infile, pipeline_get_outfile): New functions. (pipeline_wait): Check for infile and outfile and fclose() them in preference to close()ing infd and outfd. Check for errors on close(). Sun Aug 3 23:59:18 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Use dup2() instead of close() then dup(). Sun Aug 3 23:52:14 BST 2003 Colin Watson infd and outfd should now only be set by pipeline_start(). Positive values in want_in and want_out now indicate caller-supplied file descriptors, while negative values indicate a request for pipeline_start() to create a pipe. * lib/pipeline.h (struct pipeline): Document this. * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Implement it. Caller-supplied input and output file descriptors previously didn't work properly. (pipeline_wait): Update TODO comment. Sun Aug 3 21:07:46 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.h (struct command): New 'nice' member. * lib/pipeline.c (command_new): Initialize nice. (pipeline_start): Change child process priority if nice is set. Sun Aug 3 20:50:35 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Pop all cleanups in child. Sun Aug 3 20:47:24 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (argstr_get_word, command_new_argstr, command_argstr, pipeline_command_argstr): New functions to handle constructing commands from shell-quoted strings, such as those found in man-db configuration files. They deliberately handle only a safe subset of shell syntax. * lib/pipeline.h: Prototype command_new_argstr(), command_argstr(), and pipeline_command_argstr(). Sun Aug 3 19:09:59 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c (command_dup): New function to duplicate a command. (pipeline_join): New function to join two pipelines together. * lib/pipeline.h: Prototype these. Sun Aug 3 18:00:59 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.h (struct pipeline): The writeto, readfrom, writefd, and readfd names turn out to be confusing in calling code. Rename to want_in, want_out, infd, and outfd respectively. * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_new, pipeline_start, pipeline_wait): Use new names. Sun Aug 3 16:35:24 BST 2003 Colin Watson Add support in pipeline library for writing input to or reading output from the whole pipeline. * lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_new): Initialize writeto, readfrom, writefd, and readfd. (pipeline_start): Create extra pipes as necessary. (pipeline_wait): Expand TODO comment. Close file descriptors from extra pipes if necessary. * lib/pipeline.h (struct pipeline): Add writeto, readfrom, writefd, and readfd. Sun Aug 3 11:15:17 BST 2003 Colin Watson * lib/pipeline.c: New pipeline library, adapted from that in groff. The interface isn't complete yet; in particular, it can't be a replacement for popen() at the moment. * lib/pipeline.h: New file with pipeline library interface.