1 //===- llvm/Support/Process.h -----------------------------------*- C++ -*-===//
3 // The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
11 /// Provides a library for accessing information about this process and other
12 /// processes on the operating system. Also provides means of spawning
13 /// subprocess for commands. The design of this library is modeled after the
14 /// proposed design of the Boost.Process library, and is design specifically to
15 /// follow the style of standard libraries and potentially become a proposal
16 /// for a standard library.
18 /// This file declares the llvm::sys::Process class which contains a collection
19 /// of legacy static interfaces for extracting various information about the
20 /// current process. The goal is to migrate users of this API over to the new
23 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
25 #ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_PROCESS_H
26 #define LLVM_SUPPORT_PROCESS_H
28 #include "llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h"
29 #include "llvm/ADT/Optional.h"
30 #include "llvm/Config/llvm-config.h"
31 #include "llvm/Support/Allocator.h"
32 #include "llvm/Support/DataTypes.h"
33 #include "llvm/Support/TimeValue.h"
34 #include <system_error>
42 /// \brief A collection of legacy interfaces for querying information about the
43 /// current executing process.
46 static unsigned getPageSize();
48 /// \brief Return process memory usage.
49 /// This static function will return the total amount of memory allocated
50 /// by the process. This only counts the memory allocated via the malloc,
51 /// calloc and realloc functions and includes any "free" holes in the
53 static size_t GetMallocUsage();
55 /// This static function will set \p user_time to the amount of CPU time
56 /// spent in user (non-kernel) mode and \p sys_time to the amount of CPU
57 /// time spent in system (kernel) mode. If the operating system does not
58 /// support collection of these metrics, a zero TimeValue will be for both
60 /// \param elapsed Returns the TimeValue::now() giving current time
61 /// \param user_time Returns the current amount of user time for the process
62 /// \param sys_time Returns the current amount of system time for the process
63 static void GetTimeUsage(TimeValue &elapsed, TimeValue &user_time,
66 /// This function makes the necessary calls to the operating system to
67 /// prevent core files or any other kind of large memory dumps that can
68 /// occur when a program fails.
69 /// @brief Prevent core file generation.
70 static void PreventCoreFiles();
72 // This function returns the environment variable \arg name's value as a UTF-8
73 // string. \arg Name is assumed to be in UTF-8 encoding too.
74 static Optional<std::string> GetEnv(StringRef name);
76 /// This function searches for an existing file in the list of directories
77 /// in a PATH like environment variable, and returns the first file found,
78 /// according to the order of the entries in the PATH like environment
80 static Optional<std::string> FindInEnvPath(const std::string& EnvName,
81 const std::string& FileName);
83 /// This function returns a SmallVector containing the arguments passed from
84 /// the operating system to the program. This function expects to be handed
85 /// the vector passed in from main.
86 static std::error_code
87 GetArgumentVector(SmallVectorImpl<const char *> &Args,
88 ArrayRef<const char *> ArgsFromMain,
89 SpecificBumpPtrAllocator<char> &ArgAllocator);
91 // This functions ensures that the standard file descriptors (input, output,
92 // and error) are properly mapped to a file descriptor before we use any of
93 // them. This should only be called by standalone programs, library
94 // components should not call this.
95 static std::error_code FixupStandardFileDescriptors();
97 // This function safely closes a file descriptor. It is not safe to retry
98 // close(2) when it returns with errno equivalent to EINTR; this is because
99 // *nixen cannot agree if the file descriptor is, in fact, closed when this
102 // N.B. Some operating systems, due to thread cancellation, cannot properly
103 // guarantee that it will or will not be closed one way or the other!
104 static std::error_code SafelyCloseFileDescriptor(int FD);
106 /// This function determines if the standard input is connected directly
107 /// to a user's input (keyboard probably), rather than coming from a file
109 static bool StandardInIsUserInput();
111 /// This function determines if the standard output is connected to a
112 /// "tty" or "console" window. That is, the output would be displayed to
113 /// the user rather than being put on a pipe or stored in a file.
114 static bool StandardOutIsDisplayed();
116 /// This function determines if the standard error is connected to a
117 /// "tty" or "console" window. That is, the output would be displayed to
118 /// the user rather than being put on a pipe or stored in a file.
119 static bool StandardErrIsDisplayed();
121 /// This function determines if the given file descriptor is connected to
122 /// a "tty" or "console" window. That is, the output would be displayed to
123 /// the user rather than being put on a pipe or stored in a file.
124 static bool FileDescriptorIsDisplayed(int fd);
126 /// This function determines if the given file descriptor is displayd and
128 static bool FileDescriptorHasColors(int fd);
130 /// This function determines the number of columns in the window
131 /// if standard output is connected to a "tty" or "console"
132 /// window. If standard output is not connected to a tty or
133 /// console, or if the number of columns cannot be determined,
134 /// this routine returns zero.
135 static unsigned StandardOutColumns();
137 /// This function determines the number of columns in the window
138 /// if standard error is connected to a "tty" or "console"
139 /// window. If standard error is not connected to a tty or
140 /// console, or if the number of columns cannot be determined,
141 /// this routine returns zero.
142 static unsigned StandardErrColumns();
144 /// This function determines whether the terminal connected to standard
145 /// output supports colors. If standard output is not connected to a
146 /// terminal, this function returns false.
147 static bool StandardOutHasColors();
149 /// This function determines whether the terminal connected to standard
150 /// error supports colors. If standard error is not connected to a
151 /// terminal, this function returns false.
152 static bool StandardErrHasColors();
154 /// Enables or disables whether ANSI escape sequences are used to output
155 /// colors. This only has an effect on Windows.
156 /// Note: Setting this option is not thread-safe and should only be done
157 /// during initialization.
158 static void UseANSIEscapeCodes(bool enable);
160 /// Whether changing colors requires the output to be flushed.
161 /// This is needed on systems that don't support escape sequences for
163 static bool ColorNeedsFlush();
165 /// This function returns the colorcode escape sequences.
166 /// If ColorNeedsFlush() is true then this function will change the colors
167 /// and return an empty escape sequence. In that case it is the
168 /// responsibility of the client to flush the output stream prior to
169 /// calling this function.
170 static const char *OutputColor(char c, bool bold, bool bg);
172 /// Same as OutputColor, but only enables the bold attribute.
173 static const char *OutputBold(bool bg);
175 /// This function returns the escape sequence to reverse forground and
176 /// background colors.
177 static const char *OutputReverse();
179 /// Resets the terminals colors, or returns an escape sequence to do so.
180 static const char *ResetColor();
182 /// Get the result of a process wide random number generator. The
183 /// generator will be automatically seeded in non-deterministic fashion.
184 static unsigned GetRandomNumber();