{-# OPTIONS -cpp -fglasgow-exts #-} module RawSystem (rawSystem) where #include "config.h" import Foreign import Foreign.C import System.Exit {- | The same as 'system', but bypasses the shell (GHC only). Will behave more portably between systems, because there is no interpretation of shell metasyntax. -} rawSystem :: FilePath -> [String] -> IO ExitCode #ifndef mingw32_TARGET_OS rawSystem cmd args = withCString cmd $ \pcmd -> withMany withCString (cmd:args) $ \cstrs -> withArray0 nullPtr cstrs $ \arr -> do status <- throwErrnoIfMinus1 "rawSystem" (c_rawSystem pcmd arr) case status of 0 -> return ExitSuccess n -> return (ExitFailure n) #if __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ >= 602 foreign import ccall unsafe "rawSystem" c_rawSystem :: CString -> Ptr CString -> IO Int #else #error "Doesn't work with GHC < 6.2 on Unix" #endif #else -- On Windows, the command line is passed to the operating system as -- a single string. Command-line parsing is done by the executable -- itself. rawSystem cmd args = do -- NOTE: 'cmd' is assumed to contain the application to run _only_, -- as it'll be quoted surrounded in quotes here. let cmdline = translate cmd ++ concat (map ((' ':) . translate) args) withCString cmdline $ \pcmdline -> do status <- throwErrnoIfMinus1 "rawSystem" (c_rawSystem pcmdline) case status of 0 -> return ExitSuccess n -> return (ExitFailure n) translate :: String -> String translate str@('"':_) = str -- already escaped. -- ToDo: this case is wrong. It is only here because we -- abuse the system in GHC's SysTools by putting arguments into -- the command name; at some point we should fix it up and remove -- the case above. translate str = '"' : snd (foldr escape (True,"\"") str) where escape '"' (b, str) = (True, '\\' : '"' : str) escape '\\' (True, str) = (True, '\\' : '\\' : str) escape '\\' (False, str) = (False, '\\' : str) escape c (b, str) = (False, c : str) -- This function attempts to invert the Microsoft C runtime's -- quoting rules, which can be found here: -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccelng/htm/progs_12.asp -- (if this URL stops working, you might be able to find it by -- searching for "Parsing C Command-Line Arguments" on MSDN). -- -- The Bool passed back along the string is True iff the -- rest of the string is a sequence of backslashes followed by -- a double quote. #if __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ >= 602 foreign import ccall unsafe "rawSystem" c_rawSystem :: CString -> IO Int #else foreign import ccall unsafe "rawSystemCmd" c_rawSystem :: CString -> IO Int #endif #endif