1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
3 Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999,
4 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 Contributed by Cygnus Support.
8 This file is part of GDB.
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17 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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23 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
26 #include "gdb_string.h"
27 #include "frame.h" /* required by inferior.h */
31 #include "gdb_vfork.h"
34 #include "gdbthread.h"
35 #include "command.h" /* for dont_repeat () */
40 /* This just gets used as a default if we can't find SHELL. */
42 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
45 extern char **environ;
47 /* Break up SCRATCH into an argument vector suitable for passing to
48 execvp and store it in ARGV. E.g., on "run a b c d" this routine
49 would get as input the string "a b c d", and as output it would
50 fill in ARGV with the four arguments "a", "b", "c", "d". */
53 breakup_args (char *scratch, char **argv)
59 /* Scan past leading separators */
60 while (*cp == ' ' || *cp == '\t' || *cp == '\n')
63 /* Break if at end of string. */
70 /* Scan for next arg separator. */
71 cp = strchr (cp, ' ');
73 cp = strchr (cp, '\t');
75 cp = strchr (cp, '\n');
77 /* No separators => end of string => break. */
81 /* Replace the separator with a terminator. */
85 /* Null-terminate the vector. */
89 /* When executing a command under the given shell, return non-zero if
90 the '!' character should be escaped when embedded in a quoted
91 command-line argument. */
94 escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (const char *shell_file)
96 const int shell_file_len = strlen (shell_file);
98 /* Bang should be escaped only in C Shells. For now, simply check
99 that the shell name ends with 'csh', which covers at least csh
100 and tcsh. This should be good enough for now. */
102 if (shell_file_len < 3)
105 if (shell_file[shell_file_len - 3] == 'c'
106 && shell_file[shell_file_len - 2] == 's'
107 && shell_file[shell_file_len - 1] == 'h')
113 /* Start an inferior Unix child process and sets inferior_ptid to its
114 pid. EXEC_FILE is the file to run. ALLARGS is a string containing
115 the arguments to the program. ENV is the environment vector to
116 pass. SHELL_FILE is the shell file, or NULL if we should pick
119 /* This function is NOT reentrant. Some of the variables have been
120 made static to ensure that they survive the vfork call. */
123 fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
124 void (*traceme_fun) (void), void (*init_trace_fun) (int),
125 void (*pre_trace_fun) (void), char *shell_file_arg)
129 static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
131 /* Set debug_fork then attach to the child while it sleeps, to debug. */
132 static int debug_fork = 0;
133 /* This is set to the result of setpgrp, which if vforked, will be visible
134 to you in the parent process. It's only used by humans for debugging. */
135 static int debug_setpgrp = 657473;
136 static char *shell_file;
137 static char *exec_file;
141 const char *inferior_io_terminal = get_inferior_io_terminal ();
143 /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
144 -- with a good, common error message if none is specified. */
145 exec_file = exec_file_arg;
147 exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
149 /* STARTUP_WITH_SHELL is defined in inferior.h. If 0,e we'll just
150 do a fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what
152 shell_file = shell_file_arg;
153 if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
155 /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under. */
156 if (shell_file == NULL)
157 shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
158 if (shell_file == NULL)
159 shell_file = default_shell_file;
163 /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
164 fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
165 based on every character being '. */
166 len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
167 /* If desired, concat something onto the front of ALLARGS.
168 SHELL_COMMAND is the result. */
169 #ifdef SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT
170 shell_command = (char *) alloca (strlen (SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT) + len);
171 strcpy (shell_command, SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT);
173 shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
174 shell_command[0] = '\0';
179 /* We're going to call execvp. Create argument vector.
180 Calculate an upper bound on the length of the vector by
181 assuming that every other character is a separate
183 int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
184 argv = (char **) xmalloc (argc * sizeof (*argv));
186 breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
190 /* We're going to call a shell. */
192 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
196 const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
198 strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
200 /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells. But
201 csh on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it. So we only quote it if
236 strcat (shell_command, "'");
237 for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
240 strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
241 else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
242 strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
244 strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
246 strcat (shell_command, "'");
249 strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
251 strcat (shell_command, " ");
252 strcat (shell_command, allargs);
255 /* On some systems an exec will fail if the executable is open. */
258 /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
259 replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
261 save_our_env = environ;
263 /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
264 it will just record the information for later. */
265 new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
267 /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
268 output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
269 the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork. */
270 gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
271 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
273 /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
274 happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
276 if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
279 /* Create the child process. Since the child process is going to
280 exec(3) shortlty afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
281 calling vfork(2). However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
282 likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
283 work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3). This is known
284 to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
285 between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
286 exec(2). However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
287 state, this doesn't work. Also note that the vfork(2) call might
288 actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
289 ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms. */
290 if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
296 perror_with_name (("vfork"));
303 /* Run inferior in a separate process group. */
304 debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
305 if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
306 perror ("setpgrp failed in child");
308 /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
309 earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
313 /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
314 a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
315 with signals here. See comments in
316 initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
319 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
322 /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
323 by the original gdb process (the "parent"). Since processes
324 (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
325 gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
326 controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
327 undebuggable. Indeed, you probably got an error message
328 saying "not parent". Sorry; you'll have to use print
331 /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
332 for our child in the global variable. If we've vforked, this
333 clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
334 in the parent. By the way, yes we do need to look down the
335 path to find $SHELL. Rich Pixley says so, and I agree. */
338 /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
339 shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
340 to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
341 <args>". "-f" means "fast startup" to the c-shell, which
342 means don't do .cshrc file. Doing .cshrc may cause fork/exec
343 events which will confuse debugger start-up code. */
346 execlp (shell_file, shell_file, "-c", shell_command, (char *) 0);
348 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
349 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s: %s.\n", shell_file,
350 safe_strerror (errno));
351 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
356 /* Otherwise, we directly exec the target program with
361 execvp (exec_file, argv);
363 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
364 errstring = safe_strerror (errno);
365 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s ", exec_file);
368 while (argv[i] != NULL)
371 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " ");
372 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "%s", argv[i]);
375 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
377 /* This extra info seems to be useless. */
378 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Got error %s.\n", errstring);
380 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
385 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
386 environ = save_our_env;
390 /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below. */
391 inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
393 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
394 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
396 (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
398 /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
399 correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
402 /* Allow target dependent code to play with the new process. This
403 might be used to have target-specific code initialize a variable
404 in the new process prior to executing the first instruction. */
405 TARGET_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK (pid);
408 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior. */
411 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
413 int pending_execs = ntraps;
414 int terminal_initted = 0;
416 /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
417 have stopped one instruction after execing the shell. Here we
418 must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
420 clear_proceed_status ();
422 init_wait_for_inferior ();
424 if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
425 inferior_ignoring_startup_exec_events = ntraps;
427 inferior_ignoring_startup_exec_events = 0;
428 inferior_ignoring_leading_exec_events =
429 target_reported_exec_events_per_exec_call () - 1;
433 /* Make wait_for_inferior be quiet. */
434 stop_soon = STOP_QUIETLY;
435 wait_for_inferior ();
436 if (stop_signal != TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP)
438 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way.
439 FIXME: what if child has exited? Must exit loop
441 resume (0, stop_signal);
445 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
446 if (!terminal_initted)
448 /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
449 set its process group. On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
450 will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
453 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
454 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
455 target_terminal_init ();
457 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
458 target_terminal_inferior ();
460 terminal_initted = 1;
463 if (--pending_execs == 0)
466 resume (0, TARGET_SIGNAL_0); /* Just make it go on. */
469 stop_soon = NO_STOP_QUIETLY;