shared_child 1.0.0

a library for using child processes from multiple threads
Documentation
use std::io;
use std::os::windows::io::{AsRawHandle, RawHandle};
use std::process::Child;
use winapi::shared::winerror::WAIT_TIMEOUT;
use winapi::um::synchapi::WaitForSingleObject;
use winapi::um::winbase::{INFINITE, WAIT_OBJECT_0};
use winapi::um::winnt::HANDLE;

pub struct Handle(RawHandle);

// Kind of like a child PID on Unix, it's important not to keep the handle
// around after the child has been cleaned up. The best solution would be to
// have the handle actually borrow the child, but we need to keep the child
// unborrowed. Instead we just avoid storing them.
pub fn get_handle(child: &Child) -> Handle {
    Handle(child.as_raw_handle())
}

// This is very similar to libstd's Child::wait implementation, because the
// basic wait on Windows doesn't reap. The main difference is that this can be
// called without &mut Child.
pub fn wait_without_reaping(handle: Handle) -> io::Result<()> {
    let wait_ret = unsafe { WaitForSingleObject(handle.0 as HANDLE, INFINITE) };
    if wait_ret != WAIT_OBJECT_0 {
        Err(io::Error::last_os_error())
    } else {
        Ok(())
    }
}

pub fn try_wait_without_reaping(handle: Handle) -> io::Result<bool> {
    let wait_ret = unsafe { WaitForSingleObject(handle.0 as HANDLE, 0) };
    if wait_ret == WAIT_OBJECT_0 {
        // Child has exited.
        Ok(true)
    } else if wait_ret == WAIT_TIMEOUT {
        // Child has not exited yet.
        Ok(false)
    } else {
        Err(io::Error::last_os_error())
    }
}