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 */
32 #ifdef SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE
34 #include <sys/resource.h>
36 extern int original_stack_limit;
37 #endif /* SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE */
39 extern char **environ;
41 /* Start an inferior Unix child process and sets inferior_pid to its pid.
42 EXEC_FILE is the file to run.
43 ALLARGS is a string containing the arguments to the program.
44 ENV is the environment vector to pass. Errors reported with error(). */
47 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
51 fork_inferior (exec_file, allargs, env, traceme_fun, init_trace_fun)
55 void (*traceme_fun) PARAMS ((void));
56 void (*init_trace_fun) PARAMS ((int));
61 static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
63 /* Set debug_fork then attach to the child while it sleeps, to debug. */
64 static int debug_fork = 0;
65 /* This is set to the result of setpgrp, which if vforked, will be visible
66 to you in the parent process. It's only used by humans for debugging. */
67 static int debug_setpgrp = 657473;
70 /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command -- with
71 a good, common error message if none is specified. */
73 exec_file = get_exec_file(1);
75 /* The user might want tilde-expansion, and in general probably wants
76 the program to behave the same way as if run from
77 his/her favorite shell. So we let the shell run it for us.
78 FIXME, this should probably search the local environment (as
79 modified by the setenv command), not the env gdb inherited. */
80 shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
81 if (shell_file == NULL)
82 shell_file = default_shell_file;
84 /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the fact
85 that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number based on
86 every character being '. */
87 len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop*/ 12;
88 /* If desired, concat something onto the front of ALLARGS.
89 SHELL_COMMAND is the result. */
90 #ifdef SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT
91 shell_command = (char *) alloca (strlen (SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT) + len);
92 strcpy (shell_command, SHELL_COMMAND_CONCAT);
94 shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
95 shell_command[0] = '\0';
97 strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
99 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
104 /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells. But csh
105 on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it. So we only quote it if we need
139 strcat (shell_command, "'");
140 for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
143 strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
145 strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
147 strcat (shell_command, "'");
150 strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
153 strcat (shell_command, " ");
154 strcat (shell_command, allargs);
156 /* exec is said to fail if the executable is open. */
159 /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
160 replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
162 save_our_env = environ;
164 /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
165 it will just record the information for later. */
167 new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
169 /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
170 output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both the
171 parent and child flushing the same data after the fork. */
176 #if defined(USG) && !defined(HAVE_VFORK)
186 perror_with_name ("vfork");
193 /* Run inferior in a separate process group. */
194 debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
195 if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
196 perror("setpgrp failed in child");
198 #ifdef SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE
199 /* Reset the stack limit back to what it was. */
203 getrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
204 rlim.rlim_cur = original_stack_limit;
205 setrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
207 #endif /* SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE */
209 /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified earlier
210 (or to share the current terminal, if none was specified). */
214 /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
215 a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
216 with signals here. See comments in
217 initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
220 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
223 /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
224 for our child in the global variable. If we've vforked, this
225 clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
226 in the parent. By the way, yes we do need to look down the
227 path to find $SHELL. Rich Pixley says so, and I agree. */
229 execlp (shell_file, shell_file, "-c", shell_command, (char *)0);
231 fprintf (stderr, "Cannot exec %s: %s.\n", shell_file,
232 safe_strerror (errno));
237 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
238 environ = save_our_env;
242 inferior_pid = pid; /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below */
244 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
245 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs initializing. */
246 (*init_trace_fun)(pid);
248 /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
249 correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
251 #ifdef SOLIB_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK
252 SOLIB_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK (pid);
256 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior. */
259 startup_inferior (ntraps)
262 int pending_execs = ntraps;
263 int terminal_initted;
265 /* The process was started by the fork that created it,
266 but it will have stopped one instruction after execing the shell.
267 Here we must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
269 clear_proceed_status ();
271 init_wait_for_inferior ();
273 terminal_initted = 0;
277 stop_soon_quietly = 1; /* Make wait_for_inferior be quiet */
278 wait_for_inferior ();
279 if (stop_signal != SIGTRAP)
281 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way */
282 /* FIXME, what if child has exit()ed? Must exit loop somehow */
283 resume (0, stop_signal);
287 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
288 if (!terminal_initted)
290 /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already set its
291 process group. On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp will fail with
292 EPERM if we try it before the child's setpgid. */
294 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
295 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
296 target_terminal_init ();
298 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
299 target_terminal_inferior ();
301 terminal_initted = 1;
303 if (0 == --pending_execs)
305 resume (0, 0); /* Just make it go on */
308 stop_soon_quietly = 0;