woof_util 0.0.0 → 0.0.1

data/lib/woof_util.rb

@@ -1,5 +1,34 @@
 class WoofUtil
-  def self.exec
+
+  # usage
+  # shellout "xargs", :stdin => "/etc", :args => ["ls", "-ld"]
+  def self.shellout(cmd, params = {})
+    params[:stdin] ||= ""
+    params[:args] ||= []
+    
+    parent_r,child_w=IO.pipe ; parent_r.binmode ; child_w.binmode
+    child_r,parent_w=IO.pipe ; child_r.binmode ; parent_w.binmode
+
+    pid = fork do
+      parent_r.close
+      parent_w.close
+      $stdin.reopen child_r
+      $stdout.reopen child_w
+      $stderr.reopen child_w
+      # should be closing other open FDs, punting on it for now
+      exec *([cmd].concat params[:args])
+    end
+    child_w.close
+    child_r.close
+    buf = []
+    parent_w.write params[:stdin]
+    parent_w.close
+    while Process.waitpid(pid, Process::WNOHANG).nil? do
+      buf.push(parent_r.read 4096)
+    end
+    buf.push(parent_r.read 4096)
+    parent_r.close
+    buf.join
   end
 
   def self.hello

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
 name: woof_util
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-  version: 0.0.0
+  version: 0.0.1
   prerelease: 
 platform: ruby
 authors: