Function runAllowFail [src]

Prototype

 pub fn runAllowFail( b: *Build, argv: []const []const u8, out_code: *u8, stderr_behavior: std.process.Child.StdIo, ) RunError![]u8

Parameters

b: *Buildargv: []const []const u8out_code: *u8stderr_behavior: std.process.Child.StdIo

Possible Errors

AccessDenied ExecveError

BadPathName ChangeCurDirError

CurrentWorkingDirectoryUnlinked SpawnError

Windows-only. cwd was provided, but the path did not exist when spawning the child process.

ExecNotSupported

ExitCodeFailure

FileBusy ExecveError

FileNotFound ExecveError

FileSystem ExecveError

InvalidBatchScriptArg SpawnError

Windows-only. NUL (U+0000), LF (U+000A), CR (U+000D) are not allowed within arguments when executing a .bat/.cmd script.

NUL/LF signifiies end of arguments, so anything afterwards would be lost after execution.
CR is stripped by cmd.exe, so any CR codepoints would be lost after execution.

InvalidExe ExecveError

InvalidHandle GetProcessMemoryInfoError

InvalidName CreateProcessError

InvalidProcessGroupId SetPgidError

InvalidUserId SetEidError

InvalidUtf8 ChangeCurDirError

WASI-only; file paths must be valid UTF-8.

InvalidWtf8 SpawnError

Windows-only. cwd or argv was provided and it was invalid WTF-8. https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/

IsDir ExecveError

NameTooLong ExecveError

NoDevice SpawnError

POSIX-only. StdIo.Ignore was selected and opening /dev/null returned ENODEV.

NotDir ExecveError

OutOfMemory SpawnError

PermissionDenied ExecveError

ProcessAlreadyExec SetPgidError

ProcessFdQuotaExceeded ExecveError

ProcessNotFound SetPgidError

ProcessTerminated

ReadFailure

ResourceLimitReached SetIdError

SymLinkLoop ChangeCurDirError

SystemFdQuotaExceeded ExecveError

SystemResources ExecveError

Unexpected UnexpectedError

The Operating System returned an undocumented error code.

This error is in theory not possible, but it would be better to handle this error than to invoke undefined behavior.

When this error code is observed, it usually means the Zig Standard Library needs a small patch to add the error code to the error set for the respective function.

WaitAbandoned WaitForSingleObjectError

WaitTimeOut WaitForSingleObjectError

Source

  pub fn runAllowFail(
    b: *Build,
    argv: []const []const u8,
    out_code: *u8,
    stderr_behavior: std.process.Child.StdIo,
) RunError![]u8 {
    assert(argv.len != 0);

    if (!process.can_spawn)
        return error.ExecNotSupported;

    const max_output_size = 400 * 1024;
    var child = std.process.Child.init(argv, b.allocator);
    child.stdin_behavior = .Ignore;
    child.stdout_behavior = .Pipe;
    child.stderr_behavior = stderr_behavior;
    child.env_map = &b.graph.env_map;

    try Step.handleVerbose2(b, null, child.env_map, argv);
    try child.spawn();

    const stdout = child.stdout.?.reader().readAllAlloc(b.allocator, max_output_size) catch {
        return error.ReadFailure;
    };
    errdefer b.allocator.free(stdout);

    const term = try child.wait();
    switch (term) {
        .Exited => |code| {
            if (code != 0) {
                out_code.* = @as(u8, @truncate(code));
                return error.ExitCodeFailure;
            }
            return stdout;
        },
        .Signal, .Stopped, .Unknown => |code| {
            out_code.* = @as(u8, @truncate(code));
            return error.ProcessTerminated;
        },
    }
}  