calog/libs/calogProc.h

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// calogProc.h -- calog subprocess library: run a child process, capture its output.
//
// procRun(argv: list(string) [, opts: map]) -> map{ exit: int, stdout: string, stderr: string }
// Spawn argv[0] with the given arguments, wait for it, and return its exit code (or the
// negative signal number if it was killed) plus its captured stdout/stderr (binary-safe).
// opts: { stdin: string (fed to the child), cwd: string (working directory), env: map
// (string->string; REPLACES the environment -- omit to inherit the parent's) }.
//
// The child is started with posix_spawn (NOT fork -- calog runs many pthreads, and fork in a
// multithreaded process is a well-known hazard). The native is inline and blocks the calling
// context's own thread until the child exits, feeding stdin while draining stdout/stderr through a
// single poll loop so a large transfer cannot deadlock. Subprocess spawning is POSIX-only; on
// Windows the native returns an "unsupported" error rather than a half-working implementation.
#ifndef CALOG_PROC_H
#define CALOG_PROC_H
#include "calog.h"
// Register the subprocess native on a runtime. Idempotent across runtimes (no shared state).
int32_t calogProcRegister(CalogT *calog);
#endif