pty: run the shell and read its output

Signed-off-by: NotAShelf <raf@notashelf.dev>
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//! Pseudo-terminal: open a master/slave pair and run the user's shell on it.
use std::ffi::OsStr;
use std::io;
use std::os::fd::{AsFd, OwnedFd};
use std::os::unix::process::CommandExt;
use std::path::Path;
use std::process::{Child, Command, ExitStatus, Stdio};
use anyhow::Context;
use rustix::pty::{OpenptFlags, grantpt, ioctl_tiocgptpeer, openpt, unlockpt};
use rustix::termios::{Winsize, tcsetwinsize};
/// A running child process attached to a PTY master.
#[derive(Debug)]
pub struct Pty {
master: OwnedFd,
child: Child,
}
impl Pty {
/// Open a PTY, size it to `cols`x`rows`, and exec the user's login shell on
/// the slave end with `TERM=beer`.
pub fn spawn(cols: u16, rows: u16) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
let master = openpt(OpenptFlags::RDWR | OpenptFlags::NOCTTY | OpenptFlags::CLOEXEC)
.context("open pty master")?;
grantpt(&master).context("grantpt")?;
unlockpt(&master).context("unlockpt")?;
let slave = ioctl_tiocgptpeer(&master, OpenptFlags::RDWR | OpenptFlags::NOCTTY)
.context("open pty slave")?;
set_winsize(&master, cols, rows)?;
let shell = std::env::var_os("SHELL").unwrap_or_else(|| "/bin/sh".into());
let argv0 = login_argv0(&shell);
// Hand the slave to the child's stdio. try_clone gives O_CLOEXEC dups, so
// the parent's copies and the controlling-tty handle vanish at exec.
let ctty = slave.try_clone().context("dup slave")?;
let (stdin, stdout, stderr) = (
slave.try_clone().context("dup slave")?,
slave.try_clone().context("dup slave")?,
slave,
);
let mut cmd = Command::new(&shell);
cmd.arg0(&argv0)
.env("TERM", "beer")
.env_remove("COLUMNS")
.env_remove("LINES")
.env_remove("TERMCAP")
.stdin(Stdio::from(stdin))
.stdout(Stdio::from(stdout))
.stderr(Stdio::from(stderr));
// SAFETY: setsid and the TIOCSCTTY ioctl are async-signal-safe raw
// syscalls; ctty is a valid fd captured by move. We touch no parent
// heap state, satisfying pre_exec's contract.
unsafe {
cmd.pre_exec(move || {
rustix::process::setsid()?;
rustix::process::ioctl_tiocsctty(&ctty)?;
Ok(())
});
}
let child = cmd.spawn().context("spawn shell")?;
Ok(Self { master, child })
}
/// The PTY master, for reading child output and writing input.
pub fn master(&self) -> &OwnedFd {
&self.master
}
/// Reap the child if it has exited.
pub fn wait(&mut self) -> io::Result<ExitStatus> {
self.child.wait()
}
}
fn set_winsize(master: &OwnedFd, cols: u16, rows: u16) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
let ws = Winsize {
ws_row: rows,
ws_col: cols,
ws_xpixel: 0,
ws_ypixel: 0,
};
tcsetwinsize(master.as_fd(), ws).context("set pty winsize")
}
/// Login-shell argv[0] is the shell's basename with a leading '-'.
fn login_argv0(shell: &OsStr) -> std::ffi::OsString {
let name = Path::new(shell)
.file_name()
.unwrap_or_else(|| OsStr::new("sh"));
let mut argv0 = std::ffi::OsString::from("-");
argv0.push(name);
argv0
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn argv0_is_dash_prefixed_basename() {
assert_eq!(login_argv0(OsStr::new("/usr/bin/bash")), "-bash");
assert_eq!(login_argv0(OsStr::new("zsh")), "-zsh");
assert_eq!(login_argv0(OsStr::new("")), "-sh");
}
}