-- |
-- Module : System.Cmd
-- Copyright : (c) The University of Glasgow 2001
--- License : BSD-style (see the file libraries/core/LICENSE)
+-- License : BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE)
--
-- Maintainer : libraries@haskell.org
-- Stability : provisional
-- Portability : portable
--
--- $Id: Cmd.hs,v 1.3 2002/04/24 16:31:45 simonmar Exp $
---
--- Executing a command.
+-- Executing an external command.
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
module System.Cmd
- ( system -- :: String -> IO ExitCode
+ ( system, -- :: String -> IO ExitCode
+#ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__
+ rawSystem, -- :: FilePath -> [String] -> IO ExitCode
+#endif
) where
import Prelude
-import System.Exit
-import Foreign.C
-
#ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__
-import GHC.IOBase
+import System.Process
+import System.Exit ( ExitCode )
+import GHC.IOBase ( ioException, IOException(..), IOErrorType(..) )
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __HUGS__
+import Hugs.System
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __NHC__
+import System (system)
#endif
-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- system
--- Computation `system cmd' returns the exit code
--- produced when the operating system processes the command `cmd'.
+{-|
+Computation @system cmd@ returns the exit code
+produced when the operating system processes the command @cmd@.
+
+This computation may fail with
+
+ * @PermissionDenied@: The process has insufficient privileges to
+ perform the operation.
--- This computation may fail with
--- PermissionDenied
--- The process has insufficient privileges to perform the operation.
--- ResourceExhausted
--- Insufficient resources are available to perform the operation.
--- UnsupportedOperation
--- The implementation does not support system calls.
+ * @ResourceExhausted@: Insufficient resources are available to
+ perform the operation.
+ * @UnsupportedOperation@: The implementation does not support
+ system calls.
+
+On Windows, 'system' is implemented using Windows's native system
+call, which ignores the @SHELL@ environment variable, and always
+passes the command to the Windows command interpreter (@CMD.EXE@ or
+@COMMAND.COM@), hence Unixy shell tricks will not work.
+-}
+#ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__
system :: String -> IO ExitCode
system "" = ioException (IOError Nothing InvalidArgument "system" "null command" Nothing)
-system cmd =
- withCString cmd $ \s -> do
- status <- throwErrnoIfMinus1 "system" (primSystem s)
- case status of
- 0 -> return ExitSuccess
- n -> return (ExitFailure n)
-
-foreign import ccall unsafe "systemCmd" primSystem :: CString -> IO Int
+system cmd = do
+ p <- runCommand cmd
+ waitForProcess p
+
+rawSystem :: String -> [String] -> IO ExitCode
+rawSystem cmd args = do
+ p <- runProcess cmd args Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing
+ waitForProcess p
+#endif /* __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ */