1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
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25 #include "gdb_string.h"
30 #include "gdb_vfork.h"
33 #include "gdbthread.h"
34 #include "command.h" /* for dont_repeat () */
40 /* This just gets used as a default if we can't find SHELL. */
41 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
43 extern char **environ;
45 static char *exec_wrapper;
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 ();
142 struct inferior *inf;
144 /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
145 -- with a good, common error message if none is specified. */
146 exec_file = exec_file_arg;
148 exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
150 /* STARTUP_WITH_SHELL is defined in inferior.h. If 0,e we'll just
151 do a fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what
153 shell_file = shell_file_arg;
154 if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
156 /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under. */
157 if (shell_file == NULL)
158 shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
159 if (shell_file == NULL)
160 shell_file = default_shell_file;
164 /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
165 fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
166 based on every character being '. */
167 len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
169 len += strlen (exec_wrapper) + 1;
171 shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
172 shell_command[0] = '\0';
176 /* We're going to call execvp. Create argument vector.
177 Calculate an upper bound on the length of the vector by
178 assuming that every other character is a separate
180 int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
181 argv = (char **) xmalloc (argc * sizeof (*argv));
183 breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
187 /* We're going to call a shell. */
191 const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
193 strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
195 /* Add any exec wrapper. That may be a program name with arguments, so
196 the user must handle quoting. */
199 strcat (shell_command, exec_wrapper);
200 strcat (shell_command, " ");
203 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
205 /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells. But
206 csh on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it. So we only quote it if
241 strcat (shell_command, "'");
242 for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
245 strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
246 else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
247 strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
249 strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
251 strcat (shell_command, "'");
254 strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
256 strcat (shell_command, " ");
257 strcat (shell_command, allargs);
260 /* On some systems an exec will fail if the executable is open. */
263 /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
264 replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
266 save_our_env = environ;
268 /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
269 it will just record the information for later. */
270 new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
272 /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
273 output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
274 the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork. */
275 gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
276 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
278 /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
279 happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
281 if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
284 /* Create the child process. Since the child process is going to
285 exec(3) shortly afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
286 calling vfork(2). However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
287 likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
288 work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3). This is known
289 to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
290 between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
291 exec(2). However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
292 state, this doesn't work. Also note that the vfork(2) call might
293 actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
294 ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms. */
295 if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
301 perror_with_name (("vfork"));
308 /* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
309 It will also place the inferior in a separate process group. */
310 if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
312 /* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
313 in a separate process group. */
314 debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
315 if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
316 perror ("setpgrp failed in child");
319 /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
320 earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
324 /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
325 a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
326 with signals here. See comments in
327 initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
330 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
333 /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
334 by the original gdb process (the "parent"). Since processes
335 (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
336 gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
337 controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
338 undebuggable. Indeed, you probably got an error message
339 saying "not parent". Sorry; you'll have to use print
342 /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
343 for our child in the global variable. If we've vforked, this
344 clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
345 in the parent. By the way, yes we do need to look down the
346 path to find $SHELL. Rich Pixley says so, and I agree. */
349 /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
350 shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
351 to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
355 execlp (shell_file, shell_file, "-c", shell_command, (char *) 0);
357 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
358 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s: %s.\n", shell_file,
359 safe_strerror (errno));
360 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
365 /* Otherwise, we directly exec the target program with
370 execvp (exec_file, argv);
372 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
373 errstring = safe_strerror (errno);
374 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s ", exec_file);
377 while (argv[i] != NULL)
380 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " ");
381 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "%s", argv[i]);
384 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
386 /* This extra info seems to be useless. */
387 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Got error %s.\n", errstring);
389 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
394 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
395 environ = save_our_env;
397 if (!have_inferiors ())
400 inf = current_inferior ();
402 inferior_appeared (inf, pid);
404 /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below. */
405 inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
409 /* We have something that executes now. We'll be running through
410 the shell at this point, but the pid shouldn't change. Targets
411 supporting MT should fill this task's ptid with more data as soon
413 add_thread_silent (inferior_ptid);
415 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
416 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
419 (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
421 /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
422 correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
427 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior. */
430 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
432 int pending_execs = ntraps;
433 int terminal_initted = 0;
436 if (target_supports_multi_process ())
437 resume_ptid = pid_to_ptid (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
439 resume_ptid = minus_one_ptid;
441 /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
442 have stopped one instruction after execing the shell. Here we
443 must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
450 int resume_signal = TARGET_SIGNAL_0;
453 struct target_waitstatus ws;
454 memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws));
455 event_ptid = target_wait (resume_ptid, &ws, 0);
457 if (ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
458 /* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting. */
463 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
464 case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
465 case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
466 case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
467 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
468 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
469 /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior. */
470 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
473 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
474 target_terminal_ours ();
475 target_mourn_inferior ();
476 error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
477 target_signal_to_name (ws.value.sig),
478 target_signal_to_string (ws.value.sig));
481 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
482 target_terminal_ours ();
483 target_mourn_inferior ();
484 if (ws.value.integer)
485 error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
488 error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
491 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
492 /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals. */
493 xfree (ws.value.execd_pathname);
494 resume_signal = TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP;
495 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
498 case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
499 resume_signal = ws.value.sig;
500 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
504 if (resume_signal != TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP)
506 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way. */
507 target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, resume_signal);
511 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
512 if (!terminal_initted)
514 /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
515 set its process group. On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
516 will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
519 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
520 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
521 target_terminal_init ();
523 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
524 target_terminal_inferior ();
526 terminal_initted = 1;
529 if (--pending_execs == 0)
532 /* Just make it go on. */
533 target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, TARGET_SIGNAL_0);
537 /* Mark all threads non-executing. */
538 set_executing (resume_ptid, 0);
541 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command. */
544 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args, int from_tty)
546 xfree (exec_wrapper);
550 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes. */
551 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_fork_child;
554 _initialize_fork_child (void)
556 add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
557 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
558 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
560 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
562 &setlist, &showlist);
564 add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
565 _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),