Minishell

A lot of amazing shell stuff

Dependencies

• libreadline-dev
• libncurses-dev

Comments on work

• Checked if path is a directory and send appropriate message
• executor_absolute_path => extracted some code into helpers to make it norminette compliant
• executor_child => refactored putstr_fd into error_msg | checked if file on path is exectuable to show permission denied where applicable
• lexer_token_next => extracted code for norminette
• parser => A LOT of work in all files for norminette compliancy
• expander_parse_string => Fixed so that $HOME/test.txt returns the correct path and file

Edge Cases

• cat $PWD/test should expand,
• cd - : bash: cd: OLDPWD not set
• cd ~ : does not expand ?
  • ~ does expand in bash but not in any quotes
• echo a '' b = "a b" ipv "a b"

Tester

• minishell_tester
• python tester

TODO

• Find absolute path for command input ('/', './', 'cmd')
• Add heredoc to tokenizer
• Environment to t_list
• Get environment array (export)
• Set environment variable (export)
• Simple builtin export
• builtins
• Preliminary signals
• Define struct for commands, something like (

  typedef struct s_command
  {
  	char				*command;
  	char				*path;
  	char				**args;
  	int					fd_in;
  	int					fd_out;
  }	t_command;
  

)

• Make the executor, run a command
• Make a parser to create a command list
• Add redirects, appends, pipe etc. File descriptor functions a command can have multiple redirects but only the last is used for stdout Redirects take precedence over pipes, but pipes are still created and managed. should it close the unused pipe-end? all redirects are opened and closed, but only last fd is used. multiple HEREDOCs can be nested, only last is used.
• Expand $ vars & support $ ~?
  • $var
  • $?
  • ~
• export without arguments
• ft_free_arr_safe in environment mess
• builtins not first in pipeline? wtf is happening HAHAHAHAHAH its not using builtin, but core-utils
• CB command to change banner
• Bonus: Command tree for &&, ||, *

Signals

In interactive mode

• ctrl - C redisplay prompt status 130
• ctrl - D exit shell
• ctrl - \ -- Done

During process

• ctrl - C SIGINT to processs status 130
• ctrl - D
• ctrl - \ SIGQUIT to process core dumped status 131 -- Shows ^C

During HEREDOC

• ctrl - C redisplay prompt status 130
• ctrl - D SEND EOF error displayed but still works status:0
• ctrl - \ nothing

Allowed Functions

<readline/readline.h>

• readline
  • char *readline(const char *prompt);
  • Reads a line from the terminal with editing capabilities.
• rl_clear_history
  • void rl_clear_history(void);
  • Clears the history of lines read by readline.
• rl_on_new_line
  • int rl_on_new_line(void);
  • Resets the state to indicate that a new line of input is being read.
• rl_replace_line
  • int rl_replace_line(const char *text, int clear_undo);
  • Replaces the contents of the current line with text.
• rl_redisplay
  • int rl_redisplay(void);
  • Redisplays the current input line.
• add_history
  • void add_history(const char *line);
  • Adds the line to the history list.

<stdio.h>

• printf
  • int printf(const char *format, ...);
  • Sends formatted output to stdout.

<stdlib.h>

• malloc
  • void *malloc(size_t size);
  • Allocates size bytes of memory and returns a pointer to the allocated memory.
• free
  • void free(void *ptr);
  • Frees the memory space pointed to by ptr, which must have been returned by a previous call to malloc.

<unistd.h>

• write
  • ssize_t write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
  • Writes up to count bytes from the buffer starting at buf to the file referred to by the file descriptor fd.
• access
  • int access(const char *pathname, int mode);
  • Checks the file named by pathname for accessibility according to the bit pattern contained in mode.
• open
  • int open(const char *pathname, int flags, ...);
  • Opens a file specified by pathname. The flags argument determines the file access mode and file status flags.
• read
  • ssize_t read(int fd, void *buf, size_t count);
  • Reads up to count bytes from file descriptor fd into the buffer starting at buf.
• close
  • int close(int fd);
  • Closes the file descriptor fd.
• fork
  • pid_t fork(void);
  • Creates a new process by duplicating the calling process.

<sys/wait.h>

• wait
  • pid_t wait(int *wstatus);
  • Suspends execution of the calling process until one of its children terminates.
• waitpid
  • pid_t waitpid(pid_t pid, int *wstatus, int options);
  • Suspends execution of the calling process until the child specified by pid changes state.
• wait3
  • pid_t wait3(int *wstatus, int options, struct rusage *rusage);
  • Similar to wait, but also returns resource usage information.
• wait4
  • pid_t wait4(pid_t pid, int *wstatus, int options, struct rusage *rusage);
  • Similar to waitpid, but also returns resource usage information.

<signal.h>

• signal
  • void (*signal(int signum, void (*handler)(int)))(int);
  • Sets a function to handle signal signum.
• sigaction
  • int sigaction(int signum, const struct sigaction *act, struct sigaction *oldact);
  • Examines and changes the action associated with a specific signal.
• sigemptyset
  • int sigemptyset(sigset_t *set);
  • Initializes the signal set pointed to by set to exclude all signals.
• sigaddset
  • int sigaddset(sigset_t *set, int signum);
  • Adds the individual signal specified by signum to the signal set pointed to by set.
• kill
  • int kill(pid_t pid, int sig);
  • Sends the signal sig to the process specified by pid.

<stdlib.h>

• exit
  • void exit(int status);
  • Causes normal process termination and returns an exit status to the host environment.

<sys/stat.h>

• stat
  • int stat(const char *pathname, struct stat *statbuf);
  • Retrieves information about the file pointed to by pathname and fills in the stat structure.
• lstat
  • int lstat(const char *pathname, struct stat *statbuf);
  • Similar to stat, but does not follow symbolic links.
• fstat
  • int fstat(int fd, struct stat *statbuf);
  • Retrieves information about the file referred to by the open file descriptor fd.

<unistd.h>

• unlink
  • int unlink(const char *pathname);
  • Deletes a name from the filesystem.
• pipe
  • int pipe(int pipefd[2]);
  • Creates a pipe, a unidirectional data channel that can be used for interprocess communication.
• dup
  • int dup(int oldfd);
  • Duplicates the file descriptor oldfd.
• dup2
  • int dup2(int oldfd, int newfd);
  • Duplicates oldfd to newfd, closing newfd first if necessary.
• execve
  • int execve(const char *pathname, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]);
  • Executes the program referred to by pathname.
• getcwd
  • char *getcwd(char *buf, size_t size);
  • Gets the current working directory and stores it in the buffer pointed to by buf.
• chdir
  • int chdir(const char *path);
  • Changes the current working directory to the directory specified in path.

<dirent.h>

• opendir
  • DIR *opendir(const char *name);
  • Opens a directory stream corresponding to the directory name, and returns a pointer to the directory stream.
• readdir
  • struct dirent *readdir(DIR *dirp);
  • Reads the next directory entry from the directory stream pointed to by dirp.
• closedir
  • int closedir(DIR *dirp);
  • Closes the directory stream associated with dirp.

<string.h>

• strerror
  • char *strerror(int errnum);
  • Returns a pointer to the textual representation of the error number errnum.
• perror
  • void perror(const char *s);
  • Prints a descriptive error message to stderr.

<unistd.h>

• isatty
  • int isatty(int fd);
  • Tests whether fd is an open file descriptor referring to a terminal.
• ttyname
  • char *ttyname(int fd);
  • Returns a pointer to the null-terminated pathname of the terminal associated with fd.
• ttyslot
  • int ttyslot(void);
  • Returns the index of the current user's terminal in the user accounting file.

<sys/ioctl.h>

• ioctl
  • int ioctl(int fd, unsigned long request, ...);
  • Manipulates the underlying device parameters of special files.

<stdlib.h>

• getenv
  • char *getenv(const char *name);
  • Searches the environment list for a string that matches the name.

<termios.h>

• tcsetattr
  • int tcsetattr(int fd, int optional_actions, const struct termios *termios_p);
  • Sets the parameters associated with the terminal referred to by fd.
• tcgetattr
  • int tcgetattr(int fd, struct termios *termios_p);
  • Gets the parameters associated with the terminal referred to by fd.

<term.h>

• tgetent
  • int tgetent(char *bp, const char *name);
  • Loads the entry for name from the termcap database.
• tgetflag
  • int tgetflag(const char *id);
  • Gets the boolean entry for id from the termcap database.
• tgetnum
  • int tgetnum(const char *id);
  • Gets the numeric entry for id from the termcap database.
• tgetstr
  • char *tgetstr(const char *id, char **area);
  • Gets the string entry for id from the termcap database.
• tgoto
  • char *tgoto(const char *cap, int col, int row);
  • Returns a cursor addressing string for the given capability cap.
• tputs
  • int tputs(const char *str, int affcnt, int (*putc)(int));
  • Outputs the string str with padding.