1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
2 Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Contributed by Cygnus Support.
5 This file is part of GDB.
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
22 #include "frame.h" /* required by inferior.h */
31 #ifdef SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE
33 #include <sys/resource.h>
35 extern int original_stack_limit;
36 #endif /* SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE */
38 extern char **environ;
40 /* Start an inferior Unix child process and sets inferior_pid to its pid.
41 EXEC_FILE is the file to run.
42 ALLARGS is a string containing the arguments to the program.
43 ENV is the environment vector to pass. Errors reported with error(). */
46 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
50 fork_inferior (exec_file, allargs, env, traceme_fun, init_trace_fun)
54 void (*traceme_fun) PARAMS ((void));
55 void (*init_trace_fun) PARAMS ((int));
60 static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
64 /* Set debug_fork then attach to the child while it sleeps, to debug. */
65 static int debug_fork = 0;
66 /* This is set to the result of setpgrp, which if vforked, will be visible
67 to you in the parent process. It's only used by humans for debugging. */
68 static int debug_setpgrp = 657473;
71 /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command -- with
72 a good, common error message if none is specified. */
74 exec_file = get_exec_file(1);
76 /* The user might want tilde-expansion, and in general probably wants
77 the program to behave the same way as if run from
78 his/her favorite shell. So we let the shell run it for us.
79 FIXME, this should probably search the local environment (as
80 modified by the setenv command), not the env gdb inherited. */
81 shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
82 if (shell_file == NULL)
83 shell_file = default_shell_file;
85 /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the fact
86 that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number based on
87 every character being '. */
88 len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop*/ 12;
89 /* If desired, concat something onto the front of ALLARGS.
90 SHELL_COMMAND is the result. */
91 #ifdef SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT
92 shell_command = (char *) alloca (strlen (SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT) + len);
93 strcpy (shell_command, SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT);
95 shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
96 shell_command[0] = '\0';
98 strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
100 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
105 /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells. But csh
106 on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it. So we only quote it if we need
140 strcat (shell_command, "'");
141 for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
144 strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
146 strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
148 strcat (shell_command, "'");
151 strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
154 strcat (shell_command, " ");
155 strcat (shell_command, allargs);
157 /* exec is said to fail if the executable is open. */
160 /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
161 replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
163 save_our_env = environ;
165 /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
166 it will just record the information for later. */
168 new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
170 /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
171 output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both the
172 parent and child flushing the same data after the fork. */
177 #if defined(USG) && !defined(HAVE_VFORK)
187 perror_with_name ("vfork");
194 /* Run inferior in a separate process group. */
195 debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
196 if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
197 perror("setpgrp failed in child");
199 #ifdef SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE
200 /* Reset the stack limit back to what it was. */
204 getrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
205 rlim.rlim_cur = original_stack_limit;
206 setrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
208 #endif /* SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE */
210 /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified earlier
211 (or to share the current terminal, if none was specified). */
215 /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
216 a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
217 with signals here. See comments in
218 initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
221 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
224 /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
225 for our child in the global variable. If we've vforked, this
226 clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
227 in the parent. By the way, yes we do need to look down the
228 path to find $SHELL. Rich Pixley says so, and I agree. */
230 execlp (shell_file, shell_file, "-c", shell_command, (char *)0);
232 fprintf (stderr, "Cannot exec %s: %s.\n", shell_file,
233 safe_strerror (errno));
238 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
239 environ = save_our_env;
243 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
244 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs initializing. */
245 (*init_trace_fun)(pid);
247 /* The process was started by the fork that created it,
248 but it will have stopped one instruction after execing the shell.
249 Here we must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
251 inferior_pid = pid; /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below */
253 clear_proceed_status ();
255 /* We will get a trace trap after one instruction.
256 Continue it automatically. Eventually (after shell does an exec)
257 it will get another trace trap. Then insert breakpoints and continue. */
259 #ifdef START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED
260 pending_execs = START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED;
265 init_wait_for_inferior ();
267 terminal_initted = 0;
271 stop_soon_quietly = 1; /* Make wait_for_inferior be quiet */
272 wait_for_inferior ();
273 if (stop_signal != SIGTRAP)
275 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way */
276 /* FIXME, what if child has exit()ed? Must exit loop somehow */
277 resume (0, stop_signal);
281 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
282 if (!terminal_initted)
284 /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already set its
285 process group. On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp will fail with
286 EPERM if we try it before the child's setpgid. */
288 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
289 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
290 target_terminal_init ();
292 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
293 target_terminal_inferior ();
295 terminal_initted = 1;
297 if (0 == --pending_execs)
299 resume (0, 0); /* Just make it go on */
302 stop_soon_quietly = 0;
304 /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
305 correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
307 #ifdef SOLIB_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK
308 SOLIB_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK (pid);