Split run_command into two halves (start/finish)

If the calling process wants to send data to stdin of a
child process it will need to arrange for a pipe and get
the child process running, feed data to it, then wait
for the child process to finish.  So we split the run
function into two halves, allowing callers to first
start the child then later finish it.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index 1fb7fa5a8..a866a0669 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c
@@ -2,13 +2,12 @@
 #include "run-command.h"
 #include "exec_cmd.h"
 
-int run_command(struct child_process *cmd)
+int start_command(struct child_process *cmd)
 {
-	pid_t pid = fork();
-
-	if (pid < 0)
+	cmd->pid = fork();
+	if (cmd->pid < 0)
 		return -ERR_RUN_COMMAND_FORK;
-	if (!pid) {
+	if (!cmd->pid) {
 		if (cmd->no_stdin) {
 			int fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
 			dup2(fd, 0);
@@ -23,9 +22,14 @@ int run_command(struct child_process *cmd)
 		}
 		die("exec %s failed.", cmd->argv[0]);
 	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int finish_command(struct child_process *cmd)
+{
 	for (;;) {
 		int status, code;
-		pid_t waiting = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
+		pid_t waiting = waitpid(cmd->pid, &status, 0);
 
 		if (waiting < 0) {
 			if (errno == EINTR)
@@ -33,7 +37,7 @@ int run_command(struct child_process *cmd)
 			error("waitpid failed (%s)", strerror(errno));
 			return -ERR_RUN_COMMAND_WAITPID;
 		}
-		if (waiting != pid)
+		if (waiting != cmd->pid)
 			return -ERR_RUN_COMMAND_WAITPID_WRONG_PID;
 		if (WIFSIGNALED(status))
 			return -ERR_RUN_COMMAND_WAITPID_SIGNAL;
@@ -47,6 +51,14 @@ int run_command(struct child_process *cmd)
 	}
 }
 
+int run_command(struct child_process *cmd)
+{
+	int code = start_command(cmd);
+	if (code)
+		return code;
+	return finish_command(cmd);
+}
+
 int run_command_v_opt(const char **argv, int opt)
 {
 	struct child_process cmd;