pub trait CommandExt: Sealed {
fn uid(&mut self, id: u32) -> &mut Command;
fn gid(&mut self, id: u32) -> &mut Command;
fn groups(&mut self, groups: &[u32]) -> &mut Command;
unsafe fn pre_exec<F>(&mut self, f: F) -> &mut Command
where
F: FnMut() -> Result<()> + Send + Sync + 'static;
fn exec(&mut self) -> Error;
fn arg0<S>(&mut self, arg: S) -> &mut Command
where
S: AsRef<OsStr>;
fn before_exec<F>(&mut self, f: F) -> &mut Command
where
F: FnMut() -> Result<()> + Send + Sync + 'static,
{ ... }
}
Expand description
Unix-specific extensions to the process::Command
builder.
This trait is sealed: it cannot be implemented outside the standard library. This is so that future additional methods are not breaking changes.
Required methods
Sets the child process’s user ID. This translates to a
setuid
call in the child process. Failure in the setuid
call will cause the spawn to fail.
Similar to uid
, but sets the group ID of the child process. This has
the same semantics as the uid
field.
Sets the supplementary group IDs for the calling process. Translates to
a setgroups
call in the child process.
Schedules a closure to be run just before the exec
function is
invoked.
The closure is allowed to return an I/O error whose OS error code will be communicated back to the parent and returned as an error from when the spawn was requested.
Multiple closures can be registered and they will be called in order of
their registration. If a closure returns Err
then no further closures
will be called and the spawn operation will immediately return with a
failure.
Notes and Safety
This closure will be run in the context of the child process after a
fork
. This primarily means that any modifications made to memory on
behalf of this closure will not be visible to the parent process.
This is often a very constrained environment where normal operations
like malloc
, accessing environment variables through std::env
or acquiring a mutex are not guaranteed to work (due to
other threads perhaps still running when the fork
was run).
For further details refer to the POSIX fork() specification and the equivalent documentation for any targeted platform, especially the requirements around async-signal-safety.
This also means that all resources such as file descriptors and memory-mapped regions got duplicated. It is your responsibility to make sure that the closure does not violate library invariants by making invalid use of these duplicates.
Panicking in the closure is safe only if all the format arguments for the
panic message can be safely formatted; this is because although
Command
calls std::panic::always_abort
before calling the pre_exec hook, panic will still try to format the
panic message.
When this closure is run, aspects such as the stdio file descriptors and working directory have successfully been changed, so output to these locations might not appear where intended.
Performs all the required setup by this Command
, followed by calling
the execvp
syscall.
On success this function will not return, and otherwise it will return
an error indicating why the exec (or another part of the setup of the
Command
) failed.
exec
not returning has the same implications as calling
process::exit
– no destructors on the current stack or any other
thread’s stack will be run. Therefore, it is recommended to only call
exec
at a point where it is fine to not run any destructors. Note,
that the execvp
syscall independently guarantees that all memory is
freed and all file descriptors with the CLOEXEC
option (set by default
on all file descriptors opened by the standard library) are closed.
This function, unlike spawn
, will not fork
the process to create
a new child. Like spawn, however, the default behavior for the stdio
descriptors will be to inherited from the current process.
Notes
The process may be in a “broken state” if this function returns in
error. For example the working directory, environment variables, signal
handling settings, various user/group information, or aspects of stdio
file descriptors may have changed. If a “transactional spawn” is
required to gracefully handle errors it is recommended to use the
cross-platform spawn
instead.
Provided methods
should be unsafe, use pre_exec
instead
Schedules a closure to be run just before the exec
function is
invoked.
This method is stable and usable, but it should be unsafe. To fix
that, it got deprecated in favor of the unsafe pre_exec
.