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//===- llvm/Support/Process.h -----------------------------------*- C++ -*-===//
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
/// \file
///
/// Provides a library for accessing information about this process and other
/// processes on the operating system. Also provides means of spawning
/// subprocess for commands. The design of this library is modeled after the
/// proposed design of the Boost.Process library, and is design specifically to
/// follow the style of standard libraries and potentially become a proposal
/// for a standard library.
///
/// This file declares the llvm::sys::Process class which contains a collection
/// of legacy static interfaces for extracting various information about the
/// current process. The goal is to migrate users of this API over to the new
/// interfaces.
///
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
#ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_PROCESS_H
#define LLVM_SUPPORT_PROCESS_H
 
#include "llvm/Support/Chrono.h"
#include "llvm/Support/Compiler.h"
#include "llvm/Support/DataTypes.h"
#include "llvm/Support/Error.h"
#include "llvm/Support/Program.h"
#include <optional>
#include <system_error>
 
namespace llvm {
template <typename T> class ArrayRef;
class StringRef;
 
namespace sys {
 
 
/// A collection of legacy interfaces for querying information about the
/// current executing process.
class Process {
public:
  using Pid = int32_t;
 
  /// Get the process's identifier.
  LLVM_ABI static Pid getProcessId();
 
  /// Get the process's page size.
  /// This may fail if the underlying syscall returns an error. In most cases,
  /// page size information is used for optimization, and this error can be
  /// safely discarded by calling consumeError, and an estimated page size
  /// substituted instead.
  LLVM_ABI static Expected<unsigned> getPageSize();
 
  /// Get the process's estimated page size.
  /// This function always succeeds, but if the underlying syscall to determine
  /// the page size fails then this will silently return an estimated page size.
  /// The estimated page size is guaranteed to be a power of 2.
  static unsigned getPageSizeEstimate() {
    if (auto PageSize = getPageSize())
      return *PageSize;
    else {
      consumeError(PageSize.takeError());
      return 4096;
    }
  }
 
  /// Return process memory usage.
  /// This static function will return the total amount of memory allocated
  /// by the process. This only counts the memory allocated via the malloc,
  /// calloc and realloc functions and includes any "free" holes in the
  /// allocated space.
  LLVM_ABI static size_t GetMallocUsage();
 
  /// This static function will set \p user_time to the amount of CPU time
  /// spent in user (non-kernel) mode and \p sys_time to the amount of CPU
  /// time spent in system (kernel) mode.  If the operating system does not
  /// support collection of these metrics, a zero duration will be for both
  /// values.
  /// \param elapsed Returns the system_clock::now() giving current time
  /// \param user_time Returns the current amount of user time for the process
  /// \param sys_time Returns the current amount of system time for the process
  LLVM_ABI static void GetTimeUsage(TimePoint<> &elapsed,
                                    std::chrono::nanoseconds &user_time,
                                    std::chrono::nanoseconds &sys_time);
 
  /// This function makes the necessary calls to the operating system to
  /// prevent core files or any other kind of large memory dumps that can
  /// occur when a program fails.
  /// Prevent core file generation.
  LLVM_ABI static void PreventCoreFiles();
 
  /// true if PreventCoreFiles has been called, false otherwise.
  LLVM_ABI static bool AreCoreFilesPrevented();
 
  // This function returns the environment variable \arg name's value as a UTF-8
  // string. \arg Name is assumed to be in UTF-8 encoding too.
  LLVM_ABI static std::optional<std::string> GetEnv(StringRef name);
 
  /// This function searches for an existing file in the list of directories
  /// in a PATH like environment variable, and returns the first file found,
  /// according to the order of the entries in the PATH like environment
  /// variable.  If an ignore list is specified, then any folder which is in
  /// the PATH like environment variable but is also in IgnoreList is not
  /// considered.
  LLVM_ABI static std::optional<std::string>
  FindInEnvPath(StringRef EnvName, StringRef FileName,
                ArrayRef<std::string> IgnoreList,
                char Separator = EnvPathSeparator);
 
  LLVM_ABI static std::optional<std::string>
  FindInEnvPath(StringRef EnvName, StringRef FileName,
                char Separator = EnvPathSeparator);
 
  // This functions ensures that the standard file descriptors (input, output,
  // and error) are properly mapped to a file descriptor before we use any of
  // them.  This should only be called by standalone programs, library
  // components should not call this.
  LLVM_ABI static std::error_code FixupStandardFileDescriptors();
 
  // This function safely closes a file descriptor.  It is not safe to retry
  // close(2) when it returns with errno equivalent to EINTR; this is because
  // *nixen cannot agree if the file descriptor is, in fact, closed when this
  // occurs.
  //
  // N.B. Some operating systems, due to thread cancellation, cannot properly
  // guarantee that it will or will not be closed one way or the other!
  LLVM_ABI static std::error_code SafelyCloseFileDescriptor(int FD);
 
  /// This function determines if the standard input is connected directly
  /// to a user's input (keyboard probably), rather than coming from a file
  /// or pipe.
  LLVM_ABI static bool StandardInIsUserInput();
 
  /// This function determines if the standard output is connected to a
  /// "tty" or "console" window. That is, the output would be displayed to
  /// the user rather than being put on a pipe or stored in a file.
  LLVM_ABI static bool StandardOutIsDisplayed();
 
  /// This function determines if the standard error is connected to a
  /// "tty" or "console" window. That is, the output would be displayed to
  /// the user rather than being put on a pipe or stored in a file.
  LLVM_ABI static bool StandardErrIsDisplayed();
 
  /// This function determines if the given file descriptor is connected to
  /// a "tty" or "console" window. That is, the output would be displayed to
  /// the user rather than being put on a pipe or stored in a file.
  LLVM_ABI static bool FileDescriptorIsDisplayed(int fd);
 
  /// This function determines if the given file descriptor is displayd and
  /// supports colors.
  LLVM_ABI static bool FileDescriptorHasColors(int fd);
 
  /// This function determines the number of columns in the window
  /// if standard output is connected to a "tty" or "console"
  /// window. If standard output is not connected to a tty or
  /// console, or if the number of columns cannot be determined,
  /// this routine returns zero.
  LLVM_ABI static unsigned StandardOutColumns();
 
  /// This function determines the number of columns in the window
  /// if standard error is connected to a "tty" or "console"
  /// window. If standard error is not connected to a tty or
  /// console, or if the number of columns cannot be determined,
  /// this routine returns zero.
  LLVM_ABI static unsigned StandardErrColumns();
 
  /// This function determines whether the terminal connected to standard
  /// output supports colors. If standard output is not connected to a
  /// terminal, this function returns false.
  LLVM_ABI static bool StandardOutHasColors();
 
  /// This function determines whether the terminal connected to standard
  /// error supports colors. If standard error is not connected to a
  /// terminal, this function returns false.
  LLVM_ABI static bool StandardErrHasColors();
 
  /// Enables or disables whether ANSI escape sequences are used to output
  /// colors. This only has an effect on Windows.
  /// Note: Setting this option is not thread-safe and should only be done
  /// during initialization.
  LLVM_ABI static void UseANSIEscapeCodes(bool enable);
 
  /// Whether changing colors requires the output to be flushed.
  /// This is needed on systems that don't support escape sequences for
  /// changing colors.
  LLVM_ABI static bool ColorNeedsFlush();
 
  /// This function returns the colorcode escape sequences.
  /// If ColorNeedsFlush() is true then this function will change the colors
  /// and return an empty escape sequence. In that case it is the
  /// responsibility of the client to flush the output stream prior to
  /// calling this function.
  LLVM_ABI static const char *OutputColor(char c, bool bold, bool bg);
 
  /// Same as OutputColor, but only enables the bold attribute.
  LLVM_ABI static const char *OutputBold(bool bg);
 
  /// This function returns the escape sequence to reverse forground and
  /// background colors.
  LLVM_ABI static const char *OutputReverse();
 
  /// Resets the terminals colors, or returns an escape sequence to do so.
  LLVM_ABI static const char *ResetColor();
 
  /// Get the result of a process wide random number generator. The
  /// generator will be automatically seeded in non-deterministic fashion.
  LLVM_ABI static unsigned GetRandomNumber();
 
  /// Equivalent to ::exit(), except when running inside a CrashRecoveryContext.
  /// In that case, the control flow will resume after RunSafely(), like for a
  /// crash, rather than exiting the current process.
  /// Use \arg NoCleanup for calling _exit() instead of exit().
  [[noreturn]] LLVM_ABI static void Exit(int RetCode, bool NoCleanup = false);
 
private:
  [[noreturn]] static void ExitNoCleanup(int RetCode);
};
 
}
}
 
#endif