--- /dev/null
+/* CC0 license (public domain) - see LICENSE file for details */
+#include <ccan/pipecmd/pipecmd.h>
+#include <ccan/noerr/noerr.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+
+static char **gather_args(const char *arg0, va_list ap)
+{
+ size_t n = 1;
+ char **arr = calloc(sizeof(char *), n + 1);
+
+ if (!arr)
+ return NULL;
+ arr[0] = (char *)arg0;
+
+ while ((arr[n++] = va_arg(ap, char *)) != NULL) {
+ arr = realloc(arr, sizeof(char *) * (n + 1));
+ if (!arr)
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ return arr;
+}
+
+pid_t pipecmdv(int *fd_fromchild, int *fd_tochild, const char *cmd, va_list ap)
+{
+ int tochild[2], fromchild[2], execfail[2];
+ pid_t childpid;
+ int err;
+
+ if (fd_tochild) {
+ if (pipe(tochild) != 0)
+ goto fail;
+ } else {
+ tochild[0] = open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY);
+ if (tochild[0] < 0)
+ goto fail;
+ }
+ if (fd_fromchild) {
+ if (pipe(fromchild) != 0)
+ goto close_tochild_fail;
+ } else {
+ fromchild[1] = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY);
+ if (fromchild[1] < 0)
+ goto close_tochild_fail;
+ }
+ if (pipe(execfail) != 0)
+ goto close_fromchild_fail;
+
+ if (fcntl(execfail[1], F_SETFD, fcntl(execfail[1], F_GETFD)
+ | FD_CLOEXEC) < 0)
+ goto close_execfail_fail;
+
+ childpid = fork();
+ if (childpid < 0)
+ goto close_execfail_fail;
+
+ if (childpid == 0) {
+ char **args = gather_args(cmd, ap);
+
+ if (fd_tochild)
+ close(tochild[1]);
+ if (fd_fromchild)
+ close(fromchild[0]);
+ close(execfail[0]);
+
+ // Child runs command.
+ if (!args)
+ err = ENOMEM;
+ else {
+ if (tochild[0] != STDIN_FILENO) {
+ if (dup2(tochild[0], STDIN_FILENO) == -1)
+ goto child_errno_fail;
+ close(tochild[0]);
+ }
+ if (fromchild[1] != STDOUT_FILENO) {
+ if (dup2(fromchild[1], STDOUT_FILENO) == -1)
+ goto child_errno_fail;
+ close(fromchild[1]);
+ }
+ execvp(cmd, args);
+ child_errno_fail:
+ err = errno;
+ }
+ write(execfail[1], &err, sizeof(err));
+ exit(127);
+ }
+
+ close(tochild[0]);
+ close(fromchild[1]);
+ close(execfail[1]);
+ /* Child will close this without writing on successful exec. */
+ if (read(execfail[0], &err, sizeof(err)) == sizeof(err)) {
+ waitpid(childpid, NULL, 0);
+ errno = err;
+ return -1;
+ }
+ if (fd_tochild)
+ *fd_tochild = tochild[1];
+ if (fd_fromchild)
+ *fd_fromchild = fromchild[0];
+ return childpid;
+
+close_execfail_fail:
+ close_noerr(execfail[0]);
+ close_noerr(execfail[1]);
+close_fromchild_fail:
+ if (fd_fromchild)
+ close_noerr(fromchild[0]);
+ close_noerr(fromchild[1]);
+close_tochild_fail:
+ close_noerr(tochild[0]);
+ if (fd_tochild)
+ close_noerr(tochild[1]);
+fail:
+ return -1;
+}
+
+pid_t pipecmd(int *fd_fromchild, int *fd_tochild, const char *cmd, ...)
+{
+ pid_t childpid;
+
+ va_list ap;
+ va_start(ap, cmd);
+ childpid = pipecmdv(fd_fromchild, fd_tochild, cmd, ap);
+ va_end(ap);
+
+ return childpid;
+}