I've found the solution:
- I had the wrong flags, they should have been
UV_CREATE_PIPE | UV_READABLE_PIPE
notUV_INHERIT_STREAM
. - I needed to call
uv_read_start
afteruv_spawn
. I assume that there's no chance of data loss, as uv_run has not yet been called. - The above two fixes showed all the output from
dummy
to arriving at once, rather than in three lumps (as it does on the command line). Anfflush
indummy.c
fixed this.
spawn_test:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "../../libuv/include/uv.h"
uv_loop_t *loop;
uv_process_t child_req;
uv_process_options_t options;
uv_pipe_t apipe;
void on_child_exit(uv_process_t *req, int exit_status, int term_signal) {
fprintf(stderr, "Process exited with status %d, signal %d\n", exit_status, term_signal);
uv_close((uv_handle_t*) req, NULL);
}
uv_buf_t alloc_buffer(uv_handle_t *handle, size_t len) {
printf("alloc_buffer called, requesting a %lu byte buffer\n");
uv_buf_t buf;
buf.base = malloc(len);
buf.len = len;
return buf;
}
void read_apipe(uv_stream_t* stream, ssize_t nread, uv_buf_t buf) {
printf("read %li bytes in a %lu byte buffer\n", nread, buf.len);
if (nread + 1 > buf.len) return;
buf.base[nread] = '\0'; // turn it into a cstring
printf("read: |%s|", buf.base);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
printf("spawn_test\n");
loop = uv_default_loop();
char* args[3];
args[0] = "dummy";
args[1] = NULL;
args[2] = NULL;
uv_pipe_init(loop, &apipe, 0);
uv_pipe_open(&apipe, 0);
options.stdio_count = 3;
uv_stdio_container_t child_stdio[3];
child_stdio[0].flags = UV_IGNORE;
child_stdio[1].flags = UV_CREATE_PIPE | UV_READABLE_PIPE;
child_stdio[1].data.stream = (uv_stream_t *) &apipe;
child_stdio[2].flags = UV_IGNORE;
options.stdio = child_stdio;
options.exit_cb = on_child_exit;
options.file = args[0];
options.args = args;
if (uv_spawn(loop, &child_req, options)) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", uv_strerror(uv_last_error(loop)));
return 1;
}
uv_read_start((uv_stream_t*)&apipe, alloc_buffer, read_apipe);
return uv_run(loop, UV_RUN_DEFAULT);
}
dummy.c:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("child starting\n");
fflush(stdout);
sleep(1);
printf("child running\n");
fflush(stdout);
sleep(2);
printf("child ending\n");
fflush(stdout);
return 0;
}