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      1 // Copyright 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 // This file contains functions for launching subprocesses.
      6 
      7 #ifndef BASE_PROCESS_LAUNCH_H_
      8 #define BASE_PROCESS_LAUNCH_H_
      9 
     10 #include <string>
     11 #include <utility>
     12 #include <vector>
     13 
     14 #include "base/base_export.h"
     15 #include "base/basictypes.h"
     16 #include "base/environment.h"
     17 #include "base/process/process_handle.h"
     18 #include "base/strings/string_piece.h"
     19 
     20 #if defined(OS_POSIX)
     21 #include "base/posix/file_descriptor_shuffle.h"
     22 #elif defined(OS_WIN)
     23 #include <windows.h>
     24 #include "base/win/scoped_handle.h"
     25 #endif
     26 
     27 namespace base {
     28 
     29 class CommandLine;
     30 
     31 #if defined(OS_WIN)
     32 typedef std::vector<HANDLE> HandlesToInheritVector;
     33 #endif
     34 // TODO(viettrungluu): Only define this on POSIX?
     35 typedef std::vector<std::pair<int, int> > FileHandleMappingVector;
     36 
     37 // Options for launching a subprocess that are passed to LaunchProcess().
     38 // The default constructor constructs the object with default options.
     39 struct BASE_EXPORT LaunchOptions {
     40   LaunchOptions();
     41   ~LaunchOptions();
     42 
     43   // If true, wait for the process to complete.
     44   bool wait;
     45 
     46 #if defined(OS_WIN)
     47   bool start_hidden;
     48 
     49   // If non-null, inherit exactly the list of handles in this vector (these
     50   // handles must be inheritable). This is only supported on Vista and higher.
     51   HandlesToInheritVector* handles_to_inherit;
     52 
     53   // If true, the new process inherits handles from the parent. In production
     54   // code this flag should be used only when running short-lived, trusted
     55   // binaries, because open handles from other libraries and subsystems will
     56   // leak to the child process, causing errors such as open socket hangs.
     57   // Note: If |handles_to_inherit| is non-null, this flag is ignored and only
     58   // those handles will be inherited (on Vista and higher).
     59   bool inherit_handles;
     60 
     61   // If non-null, runs as if the user represented by the token had launched it.
     62   // Whether the application is visible on the interactive desktop depends on
     63   // the token belonging to an interactive logon session.
     64   //
     65   // To avoid hard to diagnose problems, when specified this loads the
     66   // environment variables associated with the user and if this operation fails
     67   // the entire call fails as well.
     68   UserTokenHandle as_user;
     69 
     70   // If true, use an empty string for the desktop name.
     71   bool empty_desktop_name;
     72 
     73   // If non-null, launches the application in that job object. The process will
     74   // be terminated immediately and LaunchProcess() will fail if assignment to
     75   // the job object fails.
     76   HANDLE job_handle;
     77 
     78   // Handles for the redirection of stdin, stdout and stderr. The handles must
     79   // be inheritable. Caller should either set all three of them or none (i.e.
     80   // there is no way to redirect stderr without redirecting stdin). The
     81   // |inherit_handles| flag must be set to true when redirecting stdio stream.
     82   HANDLE stdin_handle;
     83   HANDLE stdout_handle;
     84   HANDLE stderr_handle;
     85 
     86   // If set to true, ensures that the child process is launched with the
     87   // CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB flag which allows it to breakout of the parent
     88   // job if any.
     89   bool force_breakaway_from_job_;
     90 #else
     91   // Set/unset environment variables. These are applied on top of the parent
     92   // process environment.  Empty (the default) means to inherit the same
     93   // environment. See AlterEnvironment().
     94   EnvironmentMap environ;
     95 
     96   // Clear the environment for the new process before processing changes from
     97   // |environ|.
     98   bool clear_environ;
     99 
    100   // If non-null, remap file descriptors according to the mapping of
    101   // src fd->dest fd to propagate FDs into the child process.
    102   // This pointer is owned by the caller and must live through the
    103   // call to LaunchProcess().
    104   const FileHandleMappingVector* fds_to_remap;
    105 
    106   // Each element is an RLIMIT_* constant that should be raised to its
    107   // rlim_max.  This pointer is owned by the caller and must live through
    108   // the call to LaunchProcess().
    109   const std::vector<int>* maximize_rlimits;
    110 
    111   // If true, start the process in a new process group, instead of
    112   // inheriting the parent's process group.  The pgid of the child process
    113   // will be the same as its pid.
    114   bool new_process_group;
    115 
    116 #if defined(OS_LINUX)
    117   // If non-zero, start the process using clone(), using flags as provided.
    118   int clone_flags;
    119 
    120   // By default, child processes will have the PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS bit set. If
    121   // true, then this bit will not be set in the new child process.
    122   bool allow_new_privs;
    123 #endif  // defined(OS_LINUX)
    124 
    125 #if defined(OS_CHROMEOS)
    126   // If non-negative, the specified file descriptor will be set as the launched
    127   // process' controlling terminal.
    128   int ctrl_terminal_fd;
    129 #endif  // defined(OS_CHROMEOS)
    130 
    131 #if defined(OS_MACOSX)
    132   // If this name is non-empty, the new child, after fork() but before exec(),
    133   // will look up this server name in the bootstrap namespace. The resulting
    134   // service port will be replaced as the bootstrap port in the child. Because
    135   // the process's IPC space is cleared on exec(), any rights to the old
    136   // bootstrap port will not be transferred to the new process.
    137   std::string replacement_bootstrap_name;
    138 #endif
    139 
    140 #endif  // !defined(OS_WIN)
    141 };
    142 
    143 // Launch a process via the command line |cmdline|.
    144 // See the documentation of LaunchOptions for details on |options|.
    145 //
    146 // Returns true upon success.
    147 //
    148 // Upon success, if |process_handle| is non-null, it will be filled in with the
    149 // handle of the launched process.  NOTE: In this case, the caller is
    150 // responsible for closing the handle so that it doesn't leak!
    151 // Otherwise, the process handle will be implicitly closed.
    152 //
    153 // Unix-specific notes:
    154 // - All file descriptors open in the parent process will be closed in the
    155 //   child process except for any preserved by options::fds_to_remap, and
    156 //   stdin, stdout, and stderr. If not remapped by options::fds_to_remap,
    157 //   stdin is reopened as /dev/null, and the child is allowed to inherit its
    158 //   parent's stdout and stderr.
    159 // - If the first argument on the command line does not contain a slash,
    160 //   PATH will be searched.  (See man execvp.)
    161 BASE_EXPORT bool LaunchProcess(const CommandLine& cmdline,
    162                                const LaunchOptions& options,
    163                                ProcessHandle* process_handle);
    164 
    165 #if defined(OS_WIN)
    166 // Windows-specific LaunchProcess that takes the command line as a
    167 // string.  Useful for situations where you need to control the
    168 // command line arguments directly, but prefer the CommandLine version
    169 // if launching Chrome itself.
    170 //
    171 // The first command line argument should be the path to the process,
    172 // and don't forget to quote it.
    173 //
    174 // Example (including literal quotes)
    175 //  cmdline = "c:\windows\explorer.exe" -foo "c:\bar\"
    176 BASE_EXPORT bool LaunchProcess(const string16& cmdline,
    177                                const LaunchOptions& options,
    178                                win::ScopedHandle* process_handle);
    179 
    180 // Launches a process with elevated privileges.  This does not behave exactly
    181 // like LaunchProcess as it uses ShellExecuteEx instead of CreateProcess to
    182 // create the process.  This means the process will have elevated privileges
    183 // and thus some common operations like OpenProcess will fail. The process will
    184 // be available through the |process_handle| argument.  Currently the only
    185 // supported LaunchOptions are |start_hidden| and |wait|.
    186 BASE_EXPORT bool LaunchElevatedProcess(const CommandLine& cmdline,
    187                                        const LaunchOptions& options,
    188                                        ProcessHandle* process_handle);
    189 
    190 #elif defined(OS_POSIX)
    191 // A POSIX-specific version of LaunchProcess that takes an argv array
    192 // instead of a CommandLine.  Useful for situations where you need to
    193 // control the command line arguments directly, but prefer the
    194 // CommandLine version if launching Chrome itself.
    195 BASE_EXPORT bool LaunchProcess(const std::vector<std::string>& argv,
    196                                const LaunchOptions& options,
    197                                ProcessHandle* process_handle);
    198 
    199 // Close all file descriptors, except those which are a destination in the
    200 // given multimap. Only call this function in a child process where you know
    201 // that there aren't any other threads.
    202 BASE_EXPORT void CloseSuperfluousFds(const InjectiveMultimap& saved_map);
    203 #endif  // defined(OS_POSIX)
    204 
    205 #if defined(OS_WIN)
    206 // Set |job_object|'s JOBOBJECT_EXTENDED_LIMIT_INFORMATION
    207 // BasicLimitInformation.LimitFlags to |limit_flags|.
    208 BASE_EXPORT bool SetJobObjectLimitFlags(HANDLE job_object, DWORD limit_flags);
    209 
    210 // Output multi-process printf, cout, cerr, etc to the cmd.exe console that ran
    211 // chrome. This is not thread-safe: only call from main thread.
    212 BASE_EXPORT void RouteStdioToConsole();
    213 #endif  // defined(OS_WIN)
    214 
    215 // Executes the application specified by |cl| and wait for it to exit. Stores
    216 // the output (stdout) in |output|. Redirects stderr to /dev/null. Returns true
    217 // on success (application launched and exited cleanly, with exit code
    218 // indicating success).
    219 BASE_EXPORT bool GetAppOutput(const CommandLine& cl, std::string* output);
    220 
    221 #if defined(OS_WIN)
    222 // A Windows-specific version of GetAppOutput that takes a command line string
    223 // instead of a CommandLine object. Useful for situations where you need to
    224 // control the command line arguments directly.
    225 BASE_EXPORT bool GetAppOutput(const StringPiece16& cl, std::string* output);
    226 #endif
    227 
    228 #if defined(OS_POSIX)
    229 // A POSIX-specific version of GetAppOutput that takes an argv array
    230 // instead of a CommandLine.  Useful for situations where you need to
    231 // control the command line arguments directly.
    232 BASE_EXPORT bool GetAppOutput(const std::vector<std::string>& argv,
    233                               std::string* output);
    234 
    235 // A restricted version of |GetAppOutput()| which (a) clears the environment,
    236 // and (b) stores at most |max_output| bytes; also, it doesn't search the path
    237 // for the command.
    238 BASE_EXPORT bool GetAppOutputRestricted(const CommandLine& cl,
    239                                         std::string* output, size_t max_output);
    240 
    241 // A version of |GetAppOutput()| which also returns the exit code of the
    242 // executed command. Returns true if the application runs and exits cleanly. If
    243 // this is the case the exit code of the application is available in
    244 // |*exit_code|.
    245 BASE_EXPORT bool GetAppOutputWithExitCode(const CommandLine& cl,
    246                                           std::string* output, int* exit_code);
    247 #endif  // defined(OS_POSIX)
    248 
    249 // If supported on the platform, and the user has sufficent rights, increase
    250 // the current process's scheduling priority to a high priority.
    251 BASE_EXPORT void RaiseProcessToHighPriority();
    252 
    253 #if defined(OS_MACOSX)
    254 // Restore the default exception handler, setting it to Apple Crash Reporter
    255 // (ReportCrash).  When forking and execing a new process, the child will
    256 // inherit the parent's exception ports, which may be set to the Breakpad
    257 // instance running inside the parent.  The parent's Breakpad instance should
    258 // not handle the child's exceptions.  Calling RestoreDefaultExceptionHandler
    259 // in the child after forking will restore the standard exception handler.
    260 // See http://crbug.com/20371/ for more details.
    261 void RestoreDefaultExceptionHandler();
    262 
    263 // Look up the bootstrap server named |replacement_bootstrap_name| via the
    264 // current |bootstrap_port|. Then replace the task's bootstrap port with the
    265 // received right.
    266 void ReplaceBootstrapPort(const std::string& replacement_bootstrap_name);
    267 #endif  // defined(OS_MACOSX)
    268 
    269 // Creates a LaunchOptions object suitable for launching processes in a test
    270 // binary. This should not be called in production/released code.
    271 BASE_EXPORT LaunchOptions LaunchOptionsForTest();
    272 
    273 }  // namespace base
    274 
    275 #endif  // BASE_PROCESS_LAUNCH_H_
    276