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+/*
+ * popen() for stdin, stdout and stderr.
+ *
+ * Based on popenRWE() by Bart Trojanowski.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
+ * Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+/**
+ * Pipe stream to an application (like popen() but for std{in,out,err}).
+ *
+ * After successful return:
+ * - write to pipes[0] will go to stdin of the child
+ * - read from pipes[1] to get stdout of the child
+ * - read from pipes[2] to get stderr of the child
+ *
+ * @param cmd external command to execute
+ * @param pipes int array of three to write FDs for std{in,out,err} to
+ * @return PID of the executed application on success, -1 otherwise
+ */
+pid_t popen3(const char *cmd, int *pipes)
+{
+ int in[2], out[2], err[2];
+ pid_t pid;
+ int ret;
+
+ /* Open pipes to stdin, stdout, stderr */
+ ret = pipe(in);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto err_in;
+
+ ret = pipe(out);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto err_out;
+
+ ret = pipe(err);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto err_err;
+
+ pid = fork();
+ if (pid > 0) { /* parent */
+ close(in[0]);
+ close(out[1]);
+ close(err[1]);
+ pipes[0] = in[1];
+ pipes[1] = out[0];
+ pipes[2] = err[0];
+ return pid;
+ } else if (pid == 0) { /* child */
+ close(in[1]);
+ close(out[0]);
+ close(err[0]);
+ dup2(in[0], 0);
+ dup2(out[1], 1);
+ dup2(err[1], 2);
+
+ /* just emulate what popen() does */
+ execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", cmd, NULL);
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ } else
+ goto err_fork;
+
+ return pid;
+
+err_fork:
+ close(err[0]);
+ close(err[1]);
+err_err:
+ close(out[0]);
+ close(out[1]);
+err_out:
+ close(in[0]);
+ close(in[1]);
+err_in:
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Close pipes previously opened with popen3.
+ *
+ * @param pid
+ * @param pipes
+ * @return
+ */
+int pclose3(pid_t pid, int *pipes)
+{
+ int ret, status;
+ close(pipes[0]);
+ close(pipes[1]);
+ close(pipes[2]);
+ ret = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
+ if (ret == 0)
+ return status;
+ else
+ return ret;
+}