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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/output/test_popen3
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_popen.py36
-rw-r--r--Modules/posixmodule.c8
-rw-r--r--PC/w9xpopen.c56
4 files changed, 98 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/output/test_popen b/Lib/test/output/test_popen
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db2ac06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/output/test_popen
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+test_popen
+Test popen:
+popen seemed to process the command-line correctly
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_popen.py b/Lib/test/test_popen.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2681eb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/test_popen.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env python
+"""Basic tests for os.popen()
+
+ Particularly useful for platforms that fake popen.
+"""
+
+import os
+import sys
+from test_support import TestSkipped
+from os import popen
+
+# Test that command-lines get down as we expect.
+# To do this we execute:
+# python -c "import sys;print sys.argv" {rest_of_commandline}
+# This results in Python being spawned and printing the sys.argv list.
+# We can then eval() the result of this, and see what each argv was.
+def _do_test_commandline(cmdline, expected):
+ cmd = 'python -c "import sys;print sys.argv" %s' % (cmdline,)
+ data = popen(cmd).read()
+ got = eval(data)[1:] # strip off argv[0]
+ if got != expected:
+ print "Error in popen commandline handling."
+ print " executed '%s', expected '%r', but got '%r'" \
+ % (cmdline, expected, got)
+
+def _test_commandline():
+ _do_test_commandline("foo bar", ["foo", "bar"])
+ _do_test_commandline('foo "spam and eggs" "silly walk"', ["foo", "spam and eggs", "silly walk"])
+ _do_test_commandline('foo "a \\"quoted\\" arg" bar', ["foo", 'a "quoted" arg', "bar"])
+ print "popen seemed to process the command-line correctly"
+
+def main():
+ print "Test popen:"
+ _test_commandline()
+
+main()
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 46e145f..5b80479 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -3285,9 +3285,15 @@ _PyPopenCreateProcess(char *cmdstring,
s2 = (char *)_alloca(x);
ZeroMemory(s2, x);
+ /* To maintain correct argument passing semantics,
+ we pass the command-line as it stands, and allow
+ quoting to be applied. w9xpopen.exe will then
+ use its argv vector, and re-quote the necessary
+ args for the ultimate child process.
+ */
PyOS_snprintf(
s2, x,
- "%s \"%s%s%s\"",
+ "\"%s\" %s%s%s",
modulepath,
s1,
s3,
diff --git a/PC/w9xpopen.c b/PC/w9xpopen.c
index d96d0f5..31448fd 100644
--- a/PC/w9xpopen.c
+++ b/PC/w9xpopen.c
@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@
#define WINDOWS_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
const char *usage =
-"This program is used by Python's os.pipe function to\n"
+"This program is used by Python's os.popen function to\n"
"to work around a limitation in Windows 95/98. It is\n"
"not designed to be used as stand-alone program.";
@@ -28,11 +29,56 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
STARTUPINFO si;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
DWORD exit_code=0;
+ int cmdlen = 0;
+ int i;
+ char *cmdline, *cmdlinefill;
- if (argc != 2) {
- MessageBox(NULL, usage, argv[0], MB_OK);
+ if (argc < 2) {
+ if (GetFileType(GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE))==FILE_TYPE_CHAR)
+ /* Attached to a console, and therefore not executed by Python
+ Display a message box for the inquisitive user
+ */
+ MessageBox(NULL, usage, argv[0], MB_OK);
+ else {
+ /* Eeek - executed by Python, but args are screwed!
+ Write an error message to stdout so there is at
+ least some clue for the end user when it appears
+ in their output.
+ A message box would be hidden and blocks the app.
+ */
+ fprintf(stdout, "Internal popen error - no args specified\n%s\n", usage);
+ }
return 1;
}
+ /* Build up the command-line from the args.
+ Args with a space are quoted, existing quotes are escaped.
+ To keep things simple calculating the buffer size, we assume
+ every character is a quote - ie, we allocate double what we need
+ in the worst case. As this is only double the command line passed
+ to us, there is a good chance this is reasonably small, so the total
+ allocation will almost always be < 512 bytes.
+ */
+ for (i=1;i<argc;i++)
+ cmdlen += strlen(argv[i])*2 + 3; /* one space, maybe 2 quotes */
+ cmdline = cmdlinefill = (char *)malloc(cmdlen+1);
+ if (cmdline == NULL)
+ return -1;
+ for (i=1;i<argc;i++) {
+ const char *arglook;
+ int bQuote = strchr(argv[i], ' ') != NULL;
+ if (bQuote)
+ *cmdlinefill++ = '"';
+ /* escape quotes */
+ for (arglook=argv[i];*arglook;arglook++) {
+ if (*arglook=='"')
+ *cmdlinefill++ = '\\';
+ *cmdlinefill++ = *arglook;
+ }
+ if (bQuote)
+ *cmdlinefill++ = '"';
+ *cmdlinefill++ = ' ';
+ }
+ *cmdlinefill = '\0';
/* Make child process use this app's standard files. */
ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof si);
@@ -43,13 +89,15 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
si.hStdError = GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE);
bRet = CreateProcess(
- NULL, argv[1],
+ NULL, cmdline,
NULL, NULL,
TRUE, 0,
NULL, NULL,
&si, &pi
);
+ free(cmdline);
+
if (bRet) {
if (WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE) != WAIT_FAILED) {
GetExitCodeProcess(pi.hProcess, &exit_code);