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+/**
+ * Copyright 2017 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * Modifications copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import * as childProcess from 'child_process';
+import * as stream from 'stream';
+import * as removeFolder from 'rimraf';
+import { helper } from './helper';
+import * as readline from 'readline';
+import { TimeoutError } from './Errors';
+
+const removeFolderAsync = helper.promisify(removeFolder);
+
+export type LaunchProcessOptions = {
+  executablePath: string,
+  args: string[],
+  env?: {[key: string]: string},
+
+  handleSIGINT?: boolean,
+  handleSIGTERM?: boolean,
+  handleSIGHUP?: boolean,
+  dumpio?: boolean,
+  pipe?: boolean,
+  tempDir?: string,
+};
+
+export type LaunchProcessResult = {
+  process: childProcess.ChildProcess;
+  gracefullyClose: () => Promise<void>;
+};
+
+export async function launchProcess(options: LaunchProcessOptions, attemptToGracefullyClose: () => Promise<any>): Promise<LaunchProcessResult> {
+  let stdio: ('ignore' | 'pipe')[] = ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'];
+  if (options.pipe) {
+    if (options.dumpio)
+      stdio = ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'];
+    else
+      stdio = ['ignore', 'ignore', 'ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'];
+  }
+  const spawnedProcess = childProcess.spawn(
+      options.executablePath,
+      options.args,
+      {
+        // On non-windows platforms, `detached: true` makes child process a leader of a new
+        // process group, making it possible to kill child process tree with `.kill(-pid)` command.
+        // @see https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_options_detached
+        detached: process.platform !== 'win32',
+        env: options.env,
+        stdio
+      }
+  );
+
+  if (!spawnedProcess.pid) {
+    let reject: (e: Error) => void;
+    const result = new Promise<LaunchProcessResult>((f, r) => reject = r);
+    spawnedProcess.once('error', error => {
+      reject(new Error('Failed to launch browser: ' + error));
+    });
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  if (options.dumpio) {
+    spawnedProcess.stderr.pipe(process.stderr);
+    spawnedProcess.stdout.pipe(process.stdout);
+  }
+
+  let processClosed = false;
+  const waitForProcessToClose = new Promise((fulfill, reject) => {
+    spawnedProcess.once('exit', () => {
+      processClosed = true;
+      // Cleanup as processes exit.
+      if (options.tempDir) {
+        removeFolderAsync(options.tempDir)
+            .then(() => fulfill())
+            .catch((err: Error) => console.error(err));
+      } else {
+        fulfill();
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  const listeners = [ helper.addEventListener(process, 'exit', killProcess) ];
+  if (options.handleSIGINT)
+    listeners.push(helper.addEventListener(process, 'SIGINT', () => { killProcess(); process.exit(130); }));
+  if (options.handleSIGTERM)
+    listeners.push(helper.addEventListener(process, 'SIGTERM', gracefullyClose));
+  if (options.handleSIGHUP)
+    listeners.push(helper.addEventListener(process, 'SIGHUP', gracefullyClose));
+  return { process: spawnedProcess, gracefullyClose };
+
+  async function gracefullyClose(): Promise<void> {
+    helper.removeEventListeners(listeners);
+    attemptToGracefullyClose().catch(() => killProcess());
+    await waitForProcessToClose;
+  }
+
+  // This method has to be sync to be used as 'exit' event handler.
+  function killProcess() {
+    helper.removeEventListeners(listeners);
+    if (spawnedProcess.pid && !spawnedProcess.killed && !processClosed) {
+      // Force kill chrome.
+      try {
+        if (process.platform === 'win32')
+          childProcess.execSync(`taskkill /pid ${spawnedProcess.pid} /T /F`);
+        else
+          process.kill(-spawnedProcess.pid, 'SIGKILL');
+      } catch (e) {
+        // the process might have already stopped
+      }
+    }
+    // Attempt to remove temporary profile directory to avoid littering.
+    try {
+      removeFolder.sync(options.tempDir);
+    } catch (e) { }
+  }
+}
+
+export function waitForLine(process: childProcess.ChildProcess, inputStream: stream.Readable, regex: RegExp, timeout: number, timeoutError: TimeoutError): Promise<RegExpMatchArray> {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const rl = readline.createInterface({ input: inputStream });
+    let stderr = '';
+    const listeners = [
+      helper.addEventListener(rl, 'line', onLine),
+      helper.addEventListener(rl, 'close', () => onClose()),
+      helper.addEventListener(process, 'exit', () => onClose()),
+      helper.addEventListener(process, 'error', error => onClose(error))
+    ];
+    const timeoutId = timeout ? setTimeout(onTimeout, timeout) : 0;
+
+    function onClose(error?: Error) {
+      cleanup();
+      reject(new Error([
+        'Failed to launch browser!' + (error ? ' ' + error.message : ''),
+        stderr,
+        '',
+        'TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/Microsoft/playwright/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md',
+        '',
+      ].join('\n')));
+    }
+
+    function onTimeout() {
+      cleanup();
+      reject(timeoutError);
+    }
+
+    function onLine(line: string) {
+      stderr += line + '\n';
+      const match = line.match(regex);
+      if (!match)
+        return;
+      cleanup();
+      resolve(match);
+    }
+
+    function cleanup() {
+      if (timeoutId)
+        clearTimeout(timeoutId);
+      helper.removeEventListeners(listeners);
+    }
+  });
+}