Adjust 'after' so that it tries more rigorously to parse the input

pid, and hence will complain about 'NONE' or 'MULTIPLE' as output by
'pid'. Correspondingly, adjust some comments in 'pid', including in
particular suggesting its use with 'after'.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/utils@9719 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e

diff --git a/after/after.c b/after/after.c
index af8b3a5..eb74813 100644 (file)
--- a/after/after.c
+++ b/after/after.c
@@ -274,7 +274,14 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                fprintf(stderr, "%s: parameter `%s' unexpected\n", pname, p);
                return 1;
            } else {
-               pid = atoi(p);
+                char *end;
+                errno = 0;
+               pid = strtol(p, &end, 0);
+                if (errno == ERANGE || *end || pid < 0) {
+                    fprintf(stderr, "%s: unable to parse `%s' as a pid\n",
+                            pname, p);
+                    return 1;
+                }
            }
        }
     }

diff --git a/pid/pid.but b/pid/pid.but
index 8f424e6..c8075c9 100644 (file)
--- a/pid/pid.but
+++ b/pid/pid.but
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ By default, \cw{pid} outputs exactly one process ID, or the word
 \cq{NONE} or \cq{MULTIPLE} if it finds no matching process or more
 than one. This is a mode suitable for use as an argument to
 \cw{strace} (which expects exactly one process ID after its \cw{-p}
-argument) or \cw{gdb} (which expects a single pid too); the \cq{NONE}
-or \cq{MULTIPLE} answers will provoke a command-line parsing error
-rather than trying to trace the wrong process or expanding to a less
-obviously wrong command line. Use the \cw{-a} option to instead make
-\cw{pid} output a full list of pids that match (e.g. if you want to
-pass them all to \cw{kill}(\e{1}).
+argument) or \cw{gdb} or \cw{after} (which expect a single pid as an
+argument); the \cq{NONE} or \cq{MULTIPLE} answers will provoke a
+command-line parsing error rather than trying to trace the wrong
+process or expanding to a less obviously wrong command line. Use the
+\cw{-a} option to instead make \cw{pid} output a full list of pids
+that match (e.g. if you want to pass them all to \cw{kill}(\e{1}).
 
 You can also provide arguments to the command you're searching for, to
 narrow your search further. For example, if you have several

diff --git a/pid/pid.c b/pid/pid.c
index da2f6ad..5d3245a 100644 (file)
--- a/pid/pid.c
+++ b/pid/pid.c
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
  *
  * Same basic idea as Debian's "pidof", in that you type 'pid command'
  * and it finds a process running that command and gives you the pid;
- * but souped up with various pragmatic features such as recognising
- * well known interpreters (so you can search for, say, 'pid
- * script.sh' as well as 'pid bash' and have it do what you meant).
+ * but differs in details, for example it will search for scripts by
+ * default rather than requiring pidof's -x option, and it will also
+ * look for command-line arguments ('pid make test') and try to find
+ * the parent process of a bunch of forks from the same shell script
+ * invocation.
  *
  * Currently tested only on Linux using /proc directly, but I've tried
  * to set it up so that the logic of what processes to choose is