Implement Popen() execv helper to avoid popen()

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h
index cc1a98eae..b7812ac56 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h
@@ -201,4 +201,16 @@ std::string flCombine(std::string Dir,std::string File);
 // simple c++ glob
 std::vector<std::string> Glob(std::string const &pattern, int flags=0);
 
+/** \brief Popen() implementation that execv() instead of using a shell
+ *
+ * \param Args the execv style command to run
+ * \param FileFd is a referenz to the FileFd to use for input or output
+ * \param Child a reference to the integer that stores the child pid
+ *        Note that you must call ExecWait() or similar to cleanup
+ * \param Mode is either FileFd::ReadOnly or FileFd::WriteOnly
+ * \return true on success, false on failure with _error set
+ */
+bool Popen(const char* Args[], FileFd &Fd, pid_t &Child, FileFd::OpenMode Mode);
+
+
 #endif