glibc/posix/execvp.c

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   This file is part of the GNU C Library.

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#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <paths.h>


/* The file is accessible but it is not an executable file.  Invoke
   the shell to interpret it as a script.  */
static void
internal_function
script_execute (const char *file, char *const argv[])
{
  /* Count the arguments.  */
  int argc = 0;
  while (argv[argc++])
    ;

  /* Construct an argument list for the shell.  */
  {
    char *new_argv[argc + 1];
    new_argv[0] = (char *) _PATH_BSHELL;
    new_argv[1] = (char *) file;
    while (argc > 1)
      {
	new_argv[argc] = argv[argc - 1];
	--argc;
      }

    /* Execute the shell.  */
    execv (new_argv[0], new_argv);
  }
}


/* Execute FILE, searching in the `PATH' environment variable if it contains
   no slashes, with arguments ARGV and environment from `environ'.  */
int
execvp (file, argv)
     const char *file;
     char *const argv[];
{
  if (*file == '\0')
    {
      /* We check the simple case first. */
      __set_errno (ENOENT);
      return -1;
    }

  if (strchr (file, '/') != NULL)
    {
      /* Don't search when it contains a slash.  */
      execv (file, argv);

      if (errno == ENOEXEC)
	script_execute (file, argv);
    }
  else
    {
      int got_eacces = 0;
      char *path, *p, *name;
      size_t len;

      path = getenv ("PATH");
      if (path == NULL)
	{
	  /* There is no `PATH' in the environment.
	     The default search path is the current directory
	     followed by the path `confstr' returns for `_CS_PATH'.  */
	  len = confstr (_CS_PATH, (char *) NULL, 0);
	  path = (char *) __alloca (1 + len);
	  path[0] = ':';
	  (void) confstr (_CS_PATH, path + 1, len);
	}

      len = strlen (file) + 1;
      name = __alloca (strlen (path) + len);
      p = path;
      do
	{
	  path = p;
	  p = __strchrnul (path, ':');

	  if (p == path)
	    /* Two adjacent colons, or a colon at the beginning or the end
	       of `PATH' means to search the current directory.  */
	    (void) memcpy (name, file, len);
	  else
	    {
	      /* Construct the pathname to try.  */
	      char *tmp = __mempcpy (name, path, p - path);
	      *tmp++ = '/';
	      memcpy (tmp, file, len);
	    }

	  /* Try to execute this name.  If it works, execv will not return.  */
	  execv (name, argv);

	  if (errno == ENOEXEC)
	    script_execute (name, argv);

	  switch (errno)
	    {
	    case EACCES:
	      /* Record the we got a `Permission denied' error.  If we end
		 up finding no executable we can use, we want to diagnose
		 that we did find one but were denied access.  */
	      got_eacces = 1;
	    case ENOENT:
	    case ESTALE:
	    case ENOTDIR:
	      /* Those errors indicate the file is missing or not executable
		 by us, in which case we want to just try the next path
		 directory.  */
	      break;

	    default:
	      /* Some other error means we found an executable file, but
		 something went wrong executing it; return the error to our
		 caller.  */
	      return -1;
	    }
	}
      while (*p++ != '\0');

      /* We tried every element and none of them worked.  */
      if (got_eacces)
	/* At least one failure was due to permissions, so report that
           error.  */
	__set_errno (EACCES);
    }

  /* Return the error from the last attempt (probably ENOENT).  */
  return -1;
}