Trait async_std::os::unix::process::CommandExt

pub trait CommandExt: Sealed {
    // Required methods
    fn uid(&mut self, id: u32) -> &mut Command;
    fn gid(&mut self, id: u32) -> &mut Command;
    unsafe fn pre_exec<F>(&mut self, f: F) -> &mut Command
       where F: FnMut() -> Result<(), Error> + Send + Sync + 'static;
    fn exec(&mut self) -> Error;
    fn arg0<S>(&mut self, arg: S) -> &mut Command
       where S: AsRef<OsStr>;
}

Unix-specific extensions to the Command builder.

This trait is sealed: it cannot be implemented outside async-process. This is so that future additional methods are not breaking changes.

Required Methods

fn uid(&mut self, id: u32) -> &mut Command

Sets the child process’s user ID. This translates to a setuid call in the child process. Failure in the setuid call will cause the spawn to fail.

fn gid(&mut self, id: u32) -> &mut Command

Similar to uid, but sets the group ID of the child process. This has the same semantics as the uid field.

unsafe fn pre_exec<F>(&mut self, f: F) -> &mut Command

where F: FnMut() -> Result<(), Error> + Send + Sync + 'static,

Schedules a closure to be run just before the exec function is invoked.

The closure is allowed to return an I/O error whose OS error code will be communicated back to the parent and returned as an error from when the spawn was requested.

Multiple closures can be registered and they will be called in order of their registration. If a closure returns Err then no further closures will be called and the spawn operation will immediately return with a failure.

Safety

This closure will be run in the context of the child process after a fork. This primarily means that any modifications made to memory on behalf of this closure will not be visible to the parent process. This is often a very constrained environment where normal operations like malloc or acquiring a mutex are not guaranteed to work (due to other threads perhaps still running when the fork was run).

This also means that all resources such as file descriptors and memory-mapped regions got duplicated. It is your responsibility to make sure that the closure does not violate library invariants by making invalid use of these duplicates.

When this closure is run, aspects such as the stdio file descriptors and working directory have successfully been changed, so output to these locations may not appear where intended.

fn exec(&mut self) -> Error

Performs all the required setup by this Command, followed by calling the execvp syscall.

On success this function will not return, and otherwise it will return an error indicating why the exec (or another part of the setup of the Command) failed.

exec not returning has the same implications as calling std::process::exit – no destructors on the current stack or any other thread’s stack will be run. Therefore, it is recommended to only call exec at a point where it is fine to not run any destructors. Note, that the execvp syscall independently guarantees that all memory is freed and all file descriptors with the CLOEXEC option (set by default on all file descriptors opened by the standard library) are closed.

This function, unlike spawn, will not fork the process to create a new child. Like spawn, however, the default behavior for the stdio descriptors will be to inherited from the current process.

Notes

The process may be in a “broken state” if this function returns in error. For example the working directory, environment variables, signal handling settings, various user/group information, or aspects of stdio file descriptors may have changed. If a “transactional spawn” is required to gracefully handle errors it is recommended to use the cross-platform spawn instead.

fn arg0<S>(&mut self, arg: S) -> &mut Command

where S: AsRef<OsStr>,

Set executable argument

Set the first process argument, argv[0], to something other than the default executable path.

Object Safety

This trait is not object safe.

Implementors

impl CommandExt for Command