/**************************************************************************\ * * * Project: Gild * * wrapper.c * * * * Purpose: Given a open socket connected to a client, handle * * the conversation with the client by detecting the protocol * * in use and invoking the appropriate handler * * * * Author : Simon Brooke * * Copyright: (c) Simon Brooke 1997 * * Version : 0.1 * * Created : 7th October 1997 * * * \**************************************************************************/ #include "gild.h" extern char * errorBuff; void wrapper( int conversation) /* conversation is the handle on an open socket communicating with a client. What I want to do is quite simple, and there must be a straightforward way of doing it: attach the conversation to both the standard input and the standard output of a process, and then exec the handler within that process... I can't (at present) find an easy way of doing that, however */ { char firstln[ 1024]; char * command; int i, hear, say = conversation; FILE * c_rx, * c_tx; printf( "wrapper started with fdes [%d]\n", conversation); #ifdef glubba hear = dup( conversation); /* creat two handles on conversation */ say = dup( conversation); /* one for reading and one for writing */ #endif if ( dup2( conversation, STDIN_FILENO) == -1) { sprintf( errorBuff, "failed to duplicate conversation [%d] onto stdin: %s", hear, strerror( errno)); error( FATAL_ERROR); } if ( dup2( conversation, STDOUT_FILENO) == -1) { sprintf( errorBuff, "failed to duplicate conversation [%d] onto stdout: %s", say, strerror( errno)); error( FATAL_ERROR); } gets( firstln); command = get_handler_command( firstln); /* and find the appropriate handler */ if ( ! command) /* didn't find one */ { sprintf( errorBuff, "no handler registered for %s", firstln); error( FATAL_ERROR); } else /* did find one */ { system( command); } exit( 0); }