1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
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24 #include "gdb_string.h"
25 #include "frame.h" /* required by inferior.h */
29 #include "gdb_vfork.h"
32 #include "gdbthread.h"
33 #include "command.h" /* for dont_repeat () */
39 /* This just gets used as a default if we can't find SHELL. */
40 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
42 extern char **environ;
44 static char *exec_wrapper;
46 /* Break up SCRATCH into an argument vector suitable for passing to
47 execvp and store it in ARGV. E.g., on "run a b c d" this routine
48 would get as input the string "a b c d", and as output it would
49 fill in ARGV with the four arguments "a", "b", "c", "d". */
52 breakup_args (char *scratch, char **argv)
58 /* Scan past leading separators */
59 while (*cp == ' ' || *cp == '\t' || *cp == '\n')
62 /* Break if at end of string. */
69 /* Scan for next arg separator. */
70 cp = strchr (cp, ' ');
72 cp = strchr (cp, '\t');
74 cp = strchr (cp, '\n');
76 /* No separators => end of string => break. */
80 /* Replace the separator with a terminator. */
84 /* Null-terminate the vector. */
88 /* When executing a command under the given shell, return non-zero if
89 the '!' character should be escaped when embedded in a quoted
90 command-line argument. */
93 escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (const char *shell_file)
95 const int shell_file_len = strlen (shell_file);
97 /* Bang should be escaped only in C Shells. For now, simply check
98 that the shell name ends with 'csh', which covers at least csh
99 and tcsh. This should be good enough for now. */
101 if (shell_file_len < 3)
104 if (shell_file[shell_file_len - 3] == 'c'
105 && shell_file[shell_file_len - 2] == 's'
106 && shell_file[shell_file_len - 1] == 'h')
112 /* Start an inferior Unix child process and sets inferior_ptid to its
113 pid. EXEC_FILE is the file to run. ALLARGS is a string containing
114 the arguments to the program. ENV is the environment vector to
115 pass. SHELL_FILE is the shell file, or NULL if we should pick
118 /* This function is NOT reentrant. Some of the variables have been
119 made static to ensure that they survive the vfork call. */
122 fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
123 void (*traceme_fun) (void), void (*init_trace_fun) (int),
124 void (*pre_trace_fun) (void), char *shell_file_arg)
128 static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
130 /* Set debug_fork then attach to the child while it sleeps, to debug. */
131 static int debug_fork = 0;
132 /* This is set to the result of setpgrp, which if vforked, will be visible
133 to you in the parent process. It's only used by humans for debugging. */
134 static int debug_setpgrp = 657473;
135 static char *shell_file;
136 static char *exec_file;
140 const char *inferior_io_terminal = get_inferior_io_terminal ();
142 /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
143 -- with a good, common error message if none is specified. */
144 exec_file = exec_file_arg;
146 exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
148 /* STARTUP_WITH_SHELL is defined in inferior.h. If 0,e we'll just
149 do a fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what
151 shell_file = shell_file_arg;
152 if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
154 /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under. */
155 if (shell_file == NULL)
156 shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
157 if (shell_file == NULL)
158 shell_file = default_shell_file;
162 /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
163 fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
164 based on every character being '. */
165 len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
167 len += strlen (exec_wrapper) + 1;
169 shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
170 shell_command[0] = '\0';
174 /* We're going to call execvp. Create argument vector.
175 Calculate an upper bound on the length of the vector by
176 assuming that every other character is a separate
178 int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
179 argv = (char **) xmalloc (argc * sizeof (*argv));
181 breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
185 /* We're going to call a shell. */
189 const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
191 strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
193 /* Add any exec wrapper. That may be a program name with arguments, so
194 the user must handle quoting. */
197 strcat (shell_command, exec_wrapper);
198 strcat (shell_command, " ");
201 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
203 /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells. But
204 csh on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it. So we only quote it if
239 strcat (shell_command, "'");
240 for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
243 strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
244 else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
245 strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
247 strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
249 strcat (shell_command, "'");
252 strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
254 strcat (shell_command, " ");
255 strcat (shell_command, allargs);
258 /* On some systems an exec will fail if the executable is open. */
261 /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
262 replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
264 save_our_env = environ;
266 /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
267 it will just record the information for later. */
268 new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
270 /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
271 output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
272 the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork. */
273 gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
274 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
276 /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
277 happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
279 if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
282 /* Create the child process. Since the child process is going to
283 exec(3) shortly afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
284 calling vfork(2). However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
285 likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
286 work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3). This is known
287 to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
288 between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
289 exec(2). However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
290 state, this doesn't work. Also note that the vfork(2) call might
291 actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
292 ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms. */
293 if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
299 perror_with_name (("vfork"));
306 /* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
307 It will also place the inferior in a separate process group. */
308 if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
310 /* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
311 in a separate process group. */
312 debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
313 if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
314 perror ("setpgrp failed in child");
317 /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
318 earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
322 /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
323 a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
324 with signals here. See comments in
325 initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
328 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
331 /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
332 by the original gdb process (the "parent"). Since processes
333 (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
334 gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
335 controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
336 undebuggable. Indeed, you probably got an error message
337 saying "not parent". Sorry; you'll have to use print
340 /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
341 for our child in the global variable. If we've vforked, this
342 clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
343 in the parent. By the way, yes we do need to look down the
344 path to find $SHELL. Rich Pixley says so, and I agree. */
347 /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
348 shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
349 to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
353 execlp (shell_file, shell_file, "-c", shell_command, (char *) 0);
355 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
356 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s: %s.\n", shell_file,
357 safe_strerror (errno));
358 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
363 /* Otherwise, we directly exec the target program with
368 execvp (exec_file, argv);
370 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
371 errstring = safe_strerror (errno);
372 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s ", exec_file);
375 while (argv[i] != NULL)
378 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " ");
379 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "%s", argv[i]);
382 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
384 /* This extra info seems to be useless. */
385 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Got error %s.\n", errstring);
387 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
392 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
393 environ = save_our_env;
399 /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below. */
400 inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
402 /* We have something that executes now. We'll be running through
403 the shell at this point, but the pid shouldn't change. Targets
404 supporting MT should fill this task's ptid with more data as soon
406 add_thread_silent (inferior_ptid);
408 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
409 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
412 (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
414 /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
415 correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
420 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior. */
423 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
425 int pending_execs = ntraps;
426 int terminal_initted = 0;
428 /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
429 have stopped one instruction after execing the shell. Here we
430 must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
437 int resume_signal = TARGET_SIGNAL_0;
441 struct target_waitstatus ws;
442 memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws));
443 event_ptid = target_wait (pid_to_ptid (-1), &ws);
445 if (ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
446 /* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting. */
451 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
452 case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
453 case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
454 case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
455 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
456 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
457 /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior. */
458 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
461 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
462 target_terminal_ours ();
463 target_mourn_inferior ();
464 error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
465 target_signal_to_name (ws.value.sig),
466 target_signal_to_string (ws.value.sig));
469 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
470 target_terminal_ours ();
471 target_mourn_inferior ();
472 if (ws.value.integer)
473 error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
476 error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
479 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
480 /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals. */
481 xfree (ws.value.execd_pathname);
482 resume_signal = TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP;
483 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
486 case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
487 resume_signal = ws.value.sig;
488 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
492 /* In all-stop mode, resume all threads. */
494 resume_ptid = pid_to_ptid (-1);
496 resume_ptid = event_ptid;
498 if (resume_signal != TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP)
500 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way. */
501 target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, resume_signal);
505 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
506 if (!terminal_initted)
508 /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
509 set its process group. On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
510 will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
513 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
514 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
515 target_terminal_init ();
517 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
518 target_terminal_inferior ();
520 terminal_initted = 1;
523 if (--pending_execs == 0)
526 /* Just make it go on. */
527 target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, TARGET_SIGNAL_0);
531 /* Mark all threads non-executing. */
532 set_executing (pid_to_ptid (-1), 0);
534 stop_pc = read_pc ();
537 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command. */
540 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args, int from_tty)
542 xfree (exec_wrapper);
547 _initialize_fork_child (void)
549 add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
550 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
551 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
553 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
555 &setlist, &showlist);
557 add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
558 _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),