Add GetAppOutput function, a better replacement for popen.

base/process_util.h

 // Copyright (c) 2006-2008 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.
 
 // This file/namespace contains utility functions for enumerating, ending and
 // computing statistics of processes.
 
 #ifndef BASE_PROCESS_UTIL_H_
 #define BASE_PROCESS_UTIL_H_
 
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 bool LaunchApp(const std::vector<std::string>& argv,
                const file_handle_mapping_vector& fds_to_remap,
                bool wait, ProcessHandle* process_handle);
 #endif
 
 // Execute the application specified by cl. This function delegates to one
 // of the above two platform-specific functions.
 bool LaunchApp(const CommandLine& cl,
                bool wait, bool start_hidden, ProcessHandle* process_handle);
 
+#if defined(OS_POSIX)
+// Execute the application specified by |cl| and wait for it to exit. Store
+// the output (stdout and stderr) in |output|. Returns true on success
+// (application launched and exited cleanly, with exit code indicating success).
+// |output| is modified only when the function finished successfully.
+bool GetAppOutput(const CommandLine& cl, std::string* output);
+#endif  // defined(OS_POSIX)
+
 // Used to filter processes by process ID.
 class ProcessFilter {
  public:
   // Returns true to indicate set-inclusion and false otherwise.  This method
   // should not have side-effects and should be idempotent.
   virtual bool Includes(ProcessId pid, ProcessId parent_pid) const = 0;
   virtual ~ProcessFilter() { }
 };
 
 // Returns the number of processes on the machine that are running from the
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 // overflow. Has no effect if the OS doesn't provide the necessary facility.
 void EnableTerminationOnHeapCorruption();
 
 // If supported on the platform, and the user has sufficent rights, increase
 // the current process's scheduling priority to a high priority.
 void RaiseProcessToHighPriority();
 
 }  // namespace base
 
 #endif  // BASE_PROCESS_UTIL_H_