/* Locating a program in PATH. Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2009-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible , 2001. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #ifndef _FINDPROG_H #define _FINDPROG_H #include #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /* Looks up a program in the PATH. Attempts to determine the pathname that would be called by execlp/execvp of PROGNAME. If successful, it returns a pathname containing a slash (either absolute or relative to the current directory). Otherwise, it returns PROGNAME unmodified. Because of the latter case, callers should use execlp/execvp, not execl/execv on the returned pathname. The returned string is freshly malloc()ed if it is != PROGNAME. */ extern const char *find_in_path (const char *progname); /* Looks up a program in the given PATH-like string. The PATH argument consists of a list of directories, separated by ':' or (on native Windows) by ';'. An empty PATH element designates the current directory. A null PATH is equivalent to an empty PATH, that is, to the singleton list that contains only the current directory. Determines the pathname that would be called by execlp/execvp of PROGNAME. - If successful, it returns a pathname containing a slash (either absolute or relative to the current directory). The returned string can be used with either execl/execv or execlp/execvp. It is freshly malloc()ed if it is != PROGNAME. - Otherwise, it sets errno and returns NULL. Specific errno values include: - ENOENT: means that the program's file was not found. - EACCES: means that the program's file cannot be accessed (due to some issue with one of the ancestor directories) or lacks the execute permissions. If OPTIMIZE_FOR_EXEC is true, the function saves some work, under the assumption that the resulting pathname will not be accessed directly, only through execl/execv or execlp/execvp. Here, a "slash" means: - On POSIX systems excluding Cygwin: a '/', - On Windows, OS/2, DOS platforms: a '/' or '\'. */ extern const char *find_in_given_path (const char *progname, const char *path, bool optimize_for_exec); #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif /* _FINDPROG_H */