[PATCH/RFC 07/11] run-command: support input-fd

From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Date: Nov 26, 2009, 00:39 UTC
Message-ID: <1259195958-2372-8-git-send-email-kusmabite@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1259195958-2372-7-git-send-email-kusmabite@gmail.com>

This patch adds the possibility to supply a non-0 file descriptor for communucation, instead of the default-created pipe. The pipe gets duplicated, so the caller can free it's handles.

This is usefull for async communication over sockets.

Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
---
 run-command.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index e5a0e06..98771ef 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c
@@ -327,7 +327,10 @@ int start_async(struct async *async)
 {
 	int pipe_out[2];
 
-	if (pipe(pipe_out) < 0)
+	if (async->out) {
+		pipe_out[0] = dup(async->out);
+		pipe_out[1] = dup(async->out);
+	} else if (pipe(pipe_out) < 0)
 		return error("cannot create pipe: %s", strerror(errno));
 	async->out = pipe_out[0];

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