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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