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#### 27.6.1 Data Structures for the Shell

All of the program examples included in this chapter are part of a simple shell program. This section presents data structures and utility functions which are used throughout the example.

The sample shell deals mainly with two data structures. The `job` type contains information about a job, which is a set of subprocesses linked together with pipes. The `process` type holds information about a single subprocess. Here are the relevant data structure declarations:

         /* A process is a single process.  */
         typedef struct process
         {
           struct process *next;       /* next process in pipeline */
           char **argv;                /* for exec */
           pid_t pid;                  /* process ID */
           char completed;             /* true if process has completed */
           char stopped;               /* true if process has stopped */
           int status;                 /* reported status value */
         } process;

         /* A job is a pipeline of processes.  */
         typedef struct job
         {
           struct job *next;           /* next active job */
           char *command;              /* command line, used for messages */
           process *first_process;     /* list of processes in this job */
           pid_t pgid;                 /* process group ID */
           char notified;              /* true if user told about stopped job */
           struct termios tmodes;      /* saved terminal modes */
           int stdin, stdout, stderr;  /* standard i/o channels */
         } job;

         /* The active jobs are linked into a list.  This is its head.   */
         job *first_job = NULL;

Here are some utility functions that are used for operating on `job` objects.

         /* Find the active job with the indicated pgid.  */
         job *
         find_job (pid_t pgid)
         {
           job *j;

           for (j = first_job; j; j = j->next)
             if (j->pgid == pgid)
               return j;
           return NULL;
         }

         /* Return true if all processes in the job have stopped or completed.  */
         int
         job_is_stopped (job *j)
         {
           process *p;

           for (p = j->first_process; p; p = p->next)
             if (!p->completed && !p->stopped)
               return 0;
           return 1;
         }

         /* Return true if all processes in the job have completed.  */
         int
         job_is_completed (job *j)
         {
           process *p;

           for (p = j->first_process; p; p = p->next)
             if (!p->completed)
               return 0;
           return 1;
         }