caretx.c

/*    caretx.c
 *
 *    Copyright (C) 2013
 *     by Larry Wall and others
 *
 *    You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
 *    License or the Artistic License, as specified in the README file.
 *
 */

/*
 *   'I do not know clearly,' said Frodo; 'but the path climbs, I think,
 * up into the mountains on the northern side of that vale where the old
 * city stands.  It goes up to a high cleft and so down to -- that which
 * is beyond.'
 *   'Do you know the name of that high pass?' said Faramir.
 *
 *     [p.691 of _The Lord of the Rings_, IV/xi: "The Forbidden Pool"]
 */

/* This file contains a single function, set_caret_X, to set the $^X
 * variable.  It's only used in perl.c, but has various OS dependencies,
 * so its been moved to its own file to reduce header pollution.
 * See RT 120314 for details.
 */

#if defined(PERL_IS_MINIPERL) && !defined(USE_SITECUSTOMIZE)
#  define USE_SITECUSTOMIZE
#endif

#include "EXTERN.h"
#include "perl.h"
#include "XSUB.h"

#ifdef USE_KERN_PROC_PATHNAME
#  include <sys/sysctl.h>
#endif

#ifdef USE_NSGETEXECUTABLEPATH
# include <mach-o/dyld.h>
#endif

void
Perl_set_caret_X(pTHX) {
    GV* tmpgv = gv_fetchpvs("\030", GV_ADD|GV_NOTQUAL, SVt_PV); /* $^X */
    SV *const caret_x = GvSV(tmpgv);
#if defined(OS2)
    sv_setpv(caret_x, os2_execname(aTHX));
    return;
#elif defined(WIN32)
    char *ansi;
    WCHAR widename[MAX_PATH];
    GetModuleFileNameW(NULL, widename, sizeof(widename)/sizeof(WCHAR));
    ansi = win32_ansipath(widename);
    sv_setpv(caret_x, ansi);
    win32_free(ansi);
    return;
#else
    /* We can try a platform-specific one if possible; if it fails, or we
     * aren't running on a suitable platform, we'll fall back to argv[0]. */
# ifdef USE_KERN_PROC_PATHNAME
    size_t size = 0;
    int mib[4];
    mib[0] = CTL_KERN;
    mib[1] = KERN_PROC;
    mib[2] = KERN_PROC_PATHNAME;
    mib[3] = -1;

    if (sysctl(mib, 4, NULL, &size, NULL, 0) == 0
        && inRANGE(size, 1, -1 + MAXPATHLEN * MAXPATHLEN)) {
        sv_grow(caret_x, size);

        if (sysctl(mib, 4, SvPVX(caret_x), &size, NULL, 0) == 0
            && size > 2) {
            SvPOK_only(caret_x);
            SvCUR_set(caret_x, size - 1);
            SvTAINT(caret_x);
            return;
        }
    }
# elif defined(USE_NSGETEXECUTABLEPATH)
    char buf[1];
    uint32_t size = sizeof(buf);

    _NSGetExecutablePath(buf, &size);
    if (size < MAXPATHLEN * MAXPATHLEN) {
        sv_grow(caret_x, size);
        if (_NSGetExecutablePath(SvPVX(caret_x), &size) == 0) {
            char *const tidied = realpath(SvPVX(caret_x), NULL);
            if (tidied) {
                sv_setpv(caret_x, tidied);
                free(tidied);
            } else {
                SvPOK_only(caret_x);
                SvCUR_set(caret_x, size);
            }
            return;
        }
    }
# elif defined(HAS_PROCSELFEXE)
    char buf[MAXPATHLEN];
    SSize_t len = readlink(PROCSELFEXE_PATH, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1);
    /* NOTE: if the length returned by readlink() is sizeof(buf) - 1,
     * it is impossible to know whether the result was truncated. */

    if (len != -1) {
        buf[len] = '\0';
    }

    /* On Playstation2 Linux V1.0 (kernel 2.2.1) readlink(/proc/self/exe)
       includes a spurious NUL which will cause $^X to fail in system
       or backticks (this will prevent extensions from being built and
       many tests from working). readlink is not meant to add a NUL.
       Normal readlink works fine.
    */
    if (len > 0 && buf[len-1] == '\0') {
        len--;
    }

    /* FreeBSD's implementation is acknowledged to be imperfect, sometimes
       returning the text "unknown" from the readlink rather than the path
       to the executable (or returning an error from the readlink). Any
       valid path has a '/' in it somewhere, so use that to validate the
       result. See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35703
    */
    if (len > 0 && memchr(buf, '/', len)) {
        sv_setpvn(caret_x, buf, len);
        return;
    }
# endif
    /* Fallback to this:  */
    sv_setpv(caret_x, PL_origargv[0]);
#endif
}

/*
 * ex: set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4 et:
 */