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chrome_frame/update_launcher.cc

+// Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+#include "chrome_frame/update_launcher.h"
+
+#include <windows.h>
+#include <Shellapi.h>
+
+#include "google_update_idl.h"  // NOLINT
+
+namespace {
+
+const wchar_t kChromeFrameGuid[] = L"{8BA986DA-5100-405E-AA35-86F34A02ACBF}";
+
+const DWORD kLaunchFailureExitCode = 0xFF;
+
+const wchar_t kUpdateCommandFlag[] = L"--update-cmd";
+
+// Waits indefinitely for the provided process to exit. Returns the process's
+// exit code, or kLaunchFailureExitCode if an error occurs in the waiting.
+DWORD WaitForProcessExitCode(HANDLE handle) {
+  DWORD exit_code = 0;
+
+  DWORD wait_result = ::WaitForSingleObject(handle, INFINITE);
+
+  if (wait_result == WAIT_OBJECT_0 && ::GetExitCodeProcess(handle, &exit_code))
+    return exit_code;
+
+  return kLaunchFailureExitCode;
+}
+
+}  // namespace
+
+namespace update_launcher {
+
+std::wstring GetUpdateCommandFromArguments(const wchar_t* command_line) {
+  std::wstring command;
+
+  if (command_line != NULL) {
+    int num_args = 0;
+    wchar_t** args = NULL;
+    args = ::CommandLineToArgvW(command_line, &num_args);
+
+    if (args) {
+      if (num_args == 3 && _wcsicmp(args[1], kUpdateCommandFlag) == 0)
+        command = args[2];
+      ::LocalFree(args);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return command;
+}
+
+// Because we do not have 'base' and all of its pretty RAII helpers, please
+// ensure that this function only ever contains a single 'return', in order
+// to reduce the chance of introducing a leak.
+DWORD LaunchUpdateCommand(const std::wstring& command) {
+  DWORD exit_code = kLaunchFailureExitCode;
+
+  HRESULT hr = ::CoInitialize(NULL);
+
+  if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) {
+    IProcessLauncher* ipl = NULL;
+    HANDLE process = NULL;
+
+    hr = ::CoCreateInstance(__uuidof(ProcessLauncherClass), NULL,
+                            CLSCTX_ALL, __uuidof(IProcessLauncher),
+                            reinterpret_cast<void**>(&ipl));
+
+    if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) {
+      ULONG_PTR phandle = NULL;
+      DWORD id = ::GetCurrentProcessId();
+
+      hr = ipl->LaunchCmdElevated(kChromeFrameGuid,
+                                  command.c_str(), id, &phandle);
+      if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) {
+        process = reinterpret_cast<HANDLE>(phandle);
+        exit_code = WaitForProcessExitCode(process);
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (process)
+      ::CloseHandle(process);
+    if (ipl)
+      ipl->Release();
+
+    ::CoUninitialize();
+  }
+
+  return exit_code;
+}
+
+}  // namespace process_launcher