1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
3 Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999,
4 2000, 2001, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 Contributed by Cygnus Support.
8 This file is part of GDB.
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11 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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17 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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23 Boston, MA 02111-1307, 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 () */
39 /* This just gets used as a default if we can't find SHELL. */
41 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
44 extern char **environ;
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;
141 /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
142 -- with a good, common error message if none is specified. */
143 exec_file = exec_file_arg;
145 exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
147 /* STARTUP_WITH_SHELL is defined in inferior.h. If 0,e we'll just
148 do a fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what
150 shell_file = shell_file_arg;
151 if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
153 /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under. */
154 if (shell_file == NULL)
155 shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
156 if (shell_file == NULL)
157 shell_file = default_shell_file;
161 /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
162 fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
163 based on every character being '. */
164 len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
165 /* If desired, concat something onto the front of ALLARGS.
166 SHELL_COMMAND is the result. */
167 #ifdef SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT
168 shell_command = (char *) alloca (strlen (SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT) + len);
169 strcpy (shell_command, SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT);
171 shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
172 shell_command[0] = '\0';
177 /* We're going to call execvp. Create argument vector.
178 Calculate an upper bound on the length of the vector by
179 assuming that every other character is a separate
181 int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
182 argv = (char **) xmalloc (argc * sizeof (*argv));
184 breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
188 /* We're going to call a shell. */
190 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
194 const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
196 strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
198 /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells. But
199 csh on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it. So we only quote it if
234 strcat (shell_command, "'");
235 for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
238 strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
239 else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
240 strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
242 strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
244 strcat (shell_command, "'");
247 strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
249 strcat (shell_command, " ");
250 strcat (shell_command, allargs);
253 /* On some systems an exec will fail if the executable is open. */
256 /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
257 replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
259 save_our_env = environ;
261 /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
262 it will just record the information for later. */
263 new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
265 /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
266 output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
267 the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork. */
268 gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
269 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
271 /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
272 happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
274 if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
277 /* Create the child process. Since the child process is going to
278 exec(3) shortlty afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
279 calling vfork(2). However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
280 likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
281 work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3). This is known
282 to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
283 between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
284 exec(2). However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
285 state, this doesn't work. Also note that the vfork(2) call might
286 actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
287 ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms. */
288 if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
294 perror_with_name ("vfork");
301 /* Run inferior in a separate process group. */
302 debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
303 if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
304 perror ("setpgrp failed in child");
306 /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
307 earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
311 /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
312 a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
313 with signals here. See comments in
314 initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
317 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
320 /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
321 by the original gdb process (the "parent"). Since processes
322 (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
323 gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
324 controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
325 undebuggable. Indeed, you probably got an error message
326 saying "not parent". Sorry; you'll have to use print
329 /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
330 for our child in the global variable. If we've vforked, this
331 clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
332 in the parent. By the way, yes we do need to look down the
333 path to find $SHELL. Rich Pixley says so, and I agree. */
336 /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
337 shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
338 to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
339 <args>". "-f" means "fast startup" to the c-shell, which
340 means don't do .cshrc file. Doing .cshrc may cause fork/exec
341 events which will confuse debugger start-up code. */
344 execlp (shell_file, shell_file, "-c", shell_command, (char *) 0);
346 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
347 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s: %s.\n", shell_file,
348 safe_strerror (errno));
349 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
354 /* Otherwise, we directly exec the target program with
359 execvp (exec_file, argv);
361 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
362 errstring = safe_strerror (errno);
363 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s ", exec_file);
366 while (argv[i] != NULL)
369 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " ");
370 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "%s", argv[i]);
373 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
375 /* This extra info seems to be useless. */
376 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Got error %s.\n", errstring);
378 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
383 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
384 environ = save_our_env;
388 /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below. */
389 inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
391 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
392 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
394 (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
396 /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
397 correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
400 /* Allow target dependent code to play with the new process. This
401 might be used to have target-specific code initialize a variable
402 in the new process prior to executing the first instruction. */
403 TARGET_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK (pid);
405 #ifdef SOLIB_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK
406 SOLIB_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK (pid);
410 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior. */
413 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
415 int pending_execs = ntraps;
416 int terminal_initted = 0;
418 /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
419 have stopped one instruction after execing the shell. Here we
420 must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
422 clear_proceed_status ();
424 init_wait_for_inferior ();
426 if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
427 inferior_ignoring_startup_exec_events = ntraps;
429 inferior_ignoring_startup_exec_events = 0;
430 inferior_ignoring_leading_exec_events =
431 target_reported_exec_events_per_exec_call () - 1;
435 /* Make wait_for_inferior be quiet. */
436 stop_soon = STOP_QUIETLY;
437 wait_for_inferior ();
438 if (stop_signal != TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP)
440 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way.
441 FIXME: what if child has exited? Must exit loop
443 resume (0, stop_signal);
447 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
448 if (!terminal_initted)
450 /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
451 set its process group. On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
452 will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
455 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
456 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
457 target_terminal_init ();
459 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
460 target_terminal_inferior ();
462 terminal_initted = 1;
465 if (--pending_execs == 0)
468 resume (0, TARGET_SIGNAL_0); /* Just make it go on. */
471 stop_soon = NO_STOP_QUIETLY;