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1*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
2*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * CDDL HEADER START
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21*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
22*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
23*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
24*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Use is subject to license terms.
25*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
26*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
27*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #include <stdio.h>
28*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #include <stdlib.h>
29*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #include <unistd.h>
30*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #include <sys/types.h>
31*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #include <poll.h>
32*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #include <sys/wait.h>
33*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #include <errno.h>
34*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #include <strings.h>
35*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #include <sys/stropts.h>
36*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #include "libfsmgt.h"
37*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
38*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #define	MASKVAL (POLLIN | POLLPRI | POLLRDNORM | POLLRDBAND)
39*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #define	STDOUT 1
40*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate #define	STDERR 2
41*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
42*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
43*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Public methods
44*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
45*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
46*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
47*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Method: cmd_execute_command
48*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
49*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Description: Executes the given command and returns the output written to
50*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * stdout and stderr in two separate file descriptors to be read by the caller.
51*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * It is recommended that the caller use the cmd_retrieve_string method or
52*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * another polling method to read from the file descriptors especially in the
53*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * case that the command output is expected to be lengthy.
54*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
55*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Parameters:
56*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	- char *cmd - The command to execute.
57*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	- int *output_filedes - The file descriptor to which the stdout output
58*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	is written.
59*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	- int *err_filedes -  The file descriptor to which the stderr output
60*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	is written.
61*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
62*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Returns:
63*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	- int - This value will always be zero.  This was intended to be the
64*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	the exit status of the executed command, but in the case of the
65*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	execution of a command with a large amount of output (ex: ls of a large
66*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	directory) we can't wait for the exec'd command to exit.  This is
67*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	because of the way that file descriptors work.  When the child process,
68*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	or the process executing the command, writes of 'x' amount of data to
69*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	a file desciptor (fd), the fd reaches a threshold and will lock and wait
70*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	for a reader to read before writing anymore data.  In this case, we
71*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	don't have a reader since the caller reads from the file descriptors,
72*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	not the parent process.
73*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	The result is that the parent process cannot be allowed to wait for the
74*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	child process to exit.  Hence, cannot get the exit status of the
75*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	executed command.
76*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
77*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate int
cmd_execute_command(char * cmd,int * output_filedes,int * err_filedes)78*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate cmd_execute_command(char *cmd, int *output_filedes, int *err_filedes) {
79*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	pid_t child_pid;
80*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	int output[2];
81*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	int error[2];
82*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	int ret_val;
83*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
84*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	if (pipe(output) == -1) {
85*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		return (errno);
86*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	}
87*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
88*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	if (pipe(error) == -1) {
89*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		return (errno);
90*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	}
91*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
92*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	if ((child_pid = fork()) == -1) {
93*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		return (errno);
94*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	}
95*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
96*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	if (child_pid == 0) {
97*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		/*
98*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 * We are in the child.
99*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 */
100*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
101*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		/*
102*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 * Close the file descriptors we aren't using.
103*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 */
104*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		close(output[0]);
105*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		close(error[0]);
106*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
107*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		/*
108*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 * Close stdout and dup to output[1]
109*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 */
110*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (close(STDOUT) == -1) {
111*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(errno);
112*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		}
113*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
114*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (dup(output[1]) == -1) {
115*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(errno);
116*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		}
117*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
118*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		close(output[1]);
119*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
120*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		/*
121*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 * Close stderr and dup to error[1]
122*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 */
123*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (close(STDERR) == -1) {
124*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(errno);
125*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		}
126*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
127*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (dup(error[1]) == -1) {
128*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(errno);
129*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		}
130*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
131*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		close(error[1]);
132*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
133*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (execl("/usr/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", cmd, (char *)0) == -1) {
134*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
135*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(errno);
136*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		} else {
137*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(0);
138*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		}
139*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	}
140*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
141*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	/*
142*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * We are in the parent
143*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 */
144*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
145*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	/*
146*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * Close the file descriptors we aren't using.
147*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 */
148*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	close(output[1]);
149*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	close(error[1]);
150*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
151*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	*output_filedes = output[0];
152*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	*err_filedes = error[0];
153*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
154*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	/*
155*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * Do not wait for the child process to exit.  Just return.
156*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 */
157*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	ret_val = 0;
158*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	return (ret_val);
159*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
160*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate } /* cmd_execute_command */
161*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
162*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
163*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Method: cmd_execute_command_and_retrieve_string
164*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
165*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Description: Executes the given string and returns the output as it is
166*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * output as it is written to stdout and stderr in the return string.
167*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
168*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Parameters:
169*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	- char *cmd - the command to execute.
170*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	- int *errp - the error indicator.  This will be set to a non-zero
171*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	upon error.
172*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
173*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Returns:
174*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	char * - The output of the command to stderr and stdout.
175*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
176*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate char *
cmd_execute_command_and_retrieve_string(char * cmd,int * errp)177*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate cmd_execute_command_and_retrieve_string(char *cmd, int *errp) {
178*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	pid_t child_pid;
179*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	int output[2];
180*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	int err;
181*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	int status;
182*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	char *ret_val;
183*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
184*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	*errp = 0;
185*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	if (pipe(output) == -1) {
186*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		*errp = errno;
187*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		return (NULL);
188*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	}
189*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
190*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	if ((child_pid = fork()) == -1) {
191*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		*errp = errno;
192*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		return (NULL);
193*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	}
194*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
195*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	if (child_pid == 0) {
196*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		/*
197*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 * We are in the child.
198*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 */
199*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
200*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		/*
201*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 * Close the unused file descriptor.
202*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 */
203*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		close(output[0]);
204*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
205*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		/*
206*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 * Close stdout and dup to output[1]
207*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 */
208*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (close(STDOUT) == -1) {
209*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			*errp = errno;
210*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(*errp);
211*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		}
212*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
213*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (dup(output[1]) == -1) {
214*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			*errp = errno;
215*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(*errp);
216*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		}
217*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
218*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		/*
219*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 * Close stderr and dup to output[1]
220*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		 */
221*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (close(STDERR) == -1) {
222*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			*errp = errno;
223*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(*errp);
224*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		}
225*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
226*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (dup(output[1]) == -1) {
227*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			*errp = errno;
228*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(*errp);
229*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		}
230*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
231*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		close(output[1]);
232*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
233*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (execl("/usr/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", cmd, (char *)0) == -1) {
234*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
235*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			*errp = errno;
236*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(*errp);
237*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		} else {
238*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			exit(0);
239*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		}
240*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	}
241*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
242*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	/*
243*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * We are in the parent
244*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 */
245*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
246*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	/*
247*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * Close the file descriptors we are not using.
248*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 */
249*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	close(output[1]);
250*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
251*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	/*
252*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * Wait for the child process to exit.
253*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 */
254*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	while ((wait(&status) != child_pid)) {
255*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		ret_val = cmd_retrieve_string(output[0], &err);
256*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	}
257*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
258*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	/*
259*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * Evaluate the wait status and set the evaluated value to
260*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * the value of errp.
261*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 */
262*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	*errp = WEXITSTATUS(status);
263*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
264*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	ret_val = cmd_retrieve_string(output[0], &err);
265*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
266*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	/*
267*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * Caller must free space allocated for ret_val with free()
268*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 */
269*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	return (ret_val);
270*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate } /* cmd_execute_command_and_retrieve_string */
271*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
272*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
273*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Method: cmd_retrieve_string
274*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
275*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Description: Returns the data written to the file descriptor passed in.
276*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
277*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Parameters:
278*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	- int filedes - The file descriptor to be read.
279*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	- int *errp - The error indicator.  This will be set to a non-zero
280*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	value upon error.
281*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
282*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Returns:
283*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  *	- char * - The data read from the file descriptor.
284*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
285*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate char *
cmd_retrieve_string(int filedes,int * errp)286*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate cmd_retrieve_string(int filedes, int *errp) {
287*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	int returned_value = 0;
288*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	int buffer_size = 1024;
289*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	int len;
290*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	char *ret_val;
291*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	char *buffer;
292*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	boolean_t stop_loop = B_FALSE;
293*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	struct pollfd pollfds[1];
294*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
295*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	*errp = 0;
296*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	/*
297*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * Read from the file descriptor passed into the function.  This
298*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * will read data written to the file descriptor on a FIFO basis.
299*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * Care must be taken to make sure to get all data from the file
300*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * descriptor.
301*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 */
302*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
303*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	ret_val = (char *)calloc((size_t)1, (size_t)sizeof (char));
304*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	ret_val[0] = '\0';
305*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
306*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
307*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	/*
308*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 * Set up the pollfd structure with appropriate information.
309*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	 */
310*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	pollfds[0].fd = filedes;
311*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	pollfds[0].events = MASKVAL;
312*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	pollfds[0].revents = 0;
313*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
314*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	while (stop_loop == B_FALSE) {
315*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		char *tmp_string;
316*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
317*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		switch (poll(pollfds, 1, INFTIM)) {
318*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			case -1:
319*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
320*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			case 0:
321*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				/*
322*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				 * Nothing to read yet so continue.
323*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				 */
324*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				continue;
325*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 			default:
326*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				buffer = (char *)calloc(
327*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					(size_t)(buffer_size + 1),
328*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					(size_t)sizeof (char));
329*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
330*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				if (buffer == NULL) {
331*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					/*
332*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 * Out of memory
333*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 */
334*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					*errp = errno;
335*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					return (NULL);
336*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				}
337*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
338*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				/*
339*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				 * Call read to read from the filedesc.
340*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				 */
341*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				returned_value = read(filedes, buffer,
342*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					buffer_size);
343*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				if (returned_value <= 0) {
344*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					/*
345*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 * Either we errored or didn't read any
346*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 * bytes of data.
347*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 * returned_value == -1 represents an
348*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 * error.
349*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 * returned value == 0 represents 0
350*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 * bytes read.
351*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 */
352*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					stop_loop = B_TRUE;
353*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					continue;
354*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				}
355*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
356*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				len = strlen(buffer);
357*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
358*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				/*
359*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				 * Allocate space for the new string.
360*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				 */
361*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				tmp_string =
362*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				(char *)calloc((size_t)(len+strlen(ret_val)+1),
363*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 						(size_t)sizeof (char));
364*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
365*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				if (tmp_string == NULL) {
366*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					/*
367*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 * Out of memory
368*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 */
369*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
370*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					*errp = errno;
371*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					return (NULL);
372*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				}
373*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
374*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				/*
375*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				 * Concatenate the the new string in 'buffer'
376*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				 * with whatever is in the 'ret_val' buffer.
377*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				 */
378*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				snprintf(tmp_string, (size_t)(len +
379*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					strlen(ret_val) + 1), "%s%s",
380*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					ret_val, buffer);
381*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
382*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				(void) free(ret_val);
383*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				ret_val = strdup(tmp_string);
384*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
385*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				if (ret_val == NULL) {
386*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					/*
387*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 * Out of memory
388*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					 */
389*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					*errp = errno;
390*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 					return (NULL);
391*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				}
392*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				(void) free(tmp_string);
393*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 				(void) free(buffer);
394*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
395*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 		} /* switch (poll(pollfds, 1, INFTIM)) */
396*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
397*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	} /* while (stop_loop == B_FALSE) */
398*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 
399*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate 	return (ret_val);
400*7c478bd9Sstevel@tonic-gate } /* cmd_retrieve_string */
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