1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
3 Copyright (C) 1990-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 Contributed by Cygnus Support.
7 This file is part of GDB.
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14 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
15 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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28 #include "gdb_vfork.h"
31 #include "gdbthread.h"
32 #include "command.h" /* for dont_repeat () */
35 #include "filestuff.h"
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)
54 char *cp = scratch, *tmp;
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 tmp = strchr (cp, ' ');
72 tmp = strchr (cp, '\t');
74 tmp = strchr (cp, '\n');
76 /* 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
117 one. EXEC_FUN is the exec(2) function to use, or NULL for the default
120 /* This function is NOT reentrant. Some of the variables have been
121 made static to ensure that they survive the vfork call. */
124 fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
125 void (*traceme_fun) (void), void (*init_trace_fun) (int),
126 void (*pre_trace_fun) (void), char *shell_file_arg,
127 void (*exec_fun)(const char *file, char * const *argv,
131 static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
132 /* Set debug_fork then attach to the child while it sleeps, to debug. */
133 static int debug_fork = 0;
134 /* This is set to the result of setpgrp, which if vforked, will be visible
135 to you in the parent process. It's only used by humans for debugging. */
136 static int debug_setpgrp = 657473;
137 static char *shell_file;
138 static char *exec_file;
142 const char *inferior_io_terminal = get_inferior_io_terminal ();
143 struct inferior *inf;
147 /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
148 -- with a good, common error message if none is specified. */
149 exec_file = exec_file_arg;
151 exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
153 /* 'startup_with_shell' is declared in inferior.h and bound to the
154 "set startup-with-shell" option. If 0, we'll just do a
155 fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what shell. */
156 shell_file = shell_file_arg;
157 if (startup_with_shell)
159 /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under. */
160 if (shell_file == NULL)
161 shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
162 if (shell_file == NULL)
163 shell_file = default_shell_file;
169 /* We're going to call execvp. Create argument vector.
170 Calculate an upper bound on the length of the vector by
171 assuming that every other character is a separate
173 int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
175 argv = (char **) alloca (argc * sizeof (*argv));
177 breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
181 /* We're going to call a shell. */
186 const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
188 /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
189 fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
190 based on every character being '. */
191 len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
193 len += strlen (exec_wrapper) + 1;
195 shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
196 shell_command[0] = '\0';
198 strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
200 /* Add any exec wrapper. That may be a program name with arguments, so
201 the user must handle quoting. */
204 strcat (shell_command, exec_wrapper);
205 strcat (shell_command, " ");
208 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
210 /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells. But
211 csh on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it. So we only quote it if
246 strcat (shell_command, "'");
247 for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
250 strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
251 else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
252 strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
254 strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
256 strcat (shell_command, "'");
259 strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
261 strcat (shell_command, " ");
262 strcat (shell_command, allargs);
264 /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
265 shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
266 to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
268 argv = (char **) alloca (4 * sizeof (char *));
269 argv[0] = shell_file;
271 argv[2] = shell_command;
272 argv[3] = (char *) 0;
275 /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
276 replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
278 save_our_env = environ;
280 /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
281 it will just record the information for later. */
282 new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
284 /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
285 output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
286 the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork. */
287 gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
288 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
290 /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
291 happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
293 if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
296 /* Create the child process. Since the child process is going to
297 exec(3) shortly afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
298 calling vfork(2). However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
299 likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
300 work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3). This is known
301 to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
302 between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
303 exec(2). However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
304 state, this doesn't work. Also note that the vfork(2) call might
305 actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
306 ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms. */
307 if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
313 perror_with_name (("vfork"));
322 /* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
323 It will also place the inferior in a separate process group. */
324 if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
326 /* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
327 in a separate process group. */
328 debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
329 if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
330 perror (_("setpgrp failed in child"));
333 /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
334 earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
338 /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
339 a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
340 with signals here. See comments in
341 initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
344 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
347 /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
348 by the original gdb process (the "parent"). Since processes
349 (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
350 gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
351 controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
352 undebuggable. Indeed, you probably got an error message
353 saying "not parent". Sorry; you'll have to use print
356 /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
357 for our child in the global variable. If we've vforked, this
358 clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
359 in the parent. By the way, yes we do need to look down the
360 path to find $SHELL. Rich Pixley says so, and I agree. */
363 if (exec_fun != NULL)
364 (*exec_fun) (argv[0], argv, env);
366 execvp (argv[0], argv);
368 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
370 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s", exec_file);
371 for (i = 1; argv[i] != NULL; i++)
372 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " %s", argv[i]);
373 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
374 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Error: %s\n",
375 safe_strerror (save_errno));
376 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
380 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
381 environ = save_our_env;
383 if (!have_inferiors ())
386 inf = current_inferior ();
388 inferior_appeared (inf, pid);
390 /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below. */
391 inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
395 /* We have something that executes now. We'll be running through
396 the shell at this point, but the pid shouldn't change. Targets
397 supporting MT should fill this task's ptid with more data as soon
399 add_thread_silent (inferior_ptid);
401 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
402 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
405 (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
407 /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
408 correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
413 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior. */
416 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
418 int pending_execs = ntraps;
419 int terminal_initted = 0;
422 if (startup_with_shell)
424 /* One trap extra for exec'ing the shell. */
428 if (target_supports_multi_process ())
429 resume_ptid = pid_to_ptid (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
431 resume_ptid = minus_one_ptid;
433 /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
434 have stopped one instruction after execing the shell. Here we
435 must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
442 enum gdb_signal resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_0;
445 struct target_waitstatus ws;
446 memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws));
447 event_ptid = target_wait (resume_ptid, &ws, 0);
449 if (ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
450 /* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting. */
455 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
456 case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
457 case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
458 case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
459 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
460 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
461 /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior. */
462 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
465 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
466 target_terminal_ours ();
467 target_mourn_inferior ();
468 error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
469 gdb_signal_to_name (ws.value.sig),
470 gdb_signal_to_string (ws.value.sig));
473 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
474 target_terminal_ours ();
475 target_mourn_inferior ();
476 if (ws.value.integer)
477 error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
480 error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
483 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
484 /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals. */
485 xfree (ws.value.execd_pathname);
486 resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP;
487 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
490 case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
491 resume_signal = ws.value.sig;
492 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
496 if (resume_signal != GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP)
498 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way. */
499 target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, resume_signal);
503 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
504 if (!terminal_initted)
506 /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
507 set its process group. On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
508 will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
511 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
512 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
513 target_terminal_init ();
515 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
516 target_terminal_inferior ();
518 terminal_initted = 1;
521 if (--pending_execs == 0)
524 /* Just make it go on. */
525 target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, GDB_SIGNAL_0);
529 /* Mark all threads non-executing. */
530 set_executing (resume_ptid, 0);
533 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command. */
536 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args, int from_tty)
538 xfree (exec_wrapper);
543 show_startup_with_shell (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty,
544 struct cmd_list_element *c, const char *value)
546 fprintf_filtered (file,
547 _("Use of shell to start subprocesses is %s.\n"),
551 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes. */
552 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_fork_child;
555 _initialize_fork_child (void)
557 add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
558 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
559 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
561 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
563 &setlist, &showlist);
565 add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
566 _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),
569 add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("startup-with-shell", class_support,
570 &startup_with_shell, _("\
571 Set use of shell to start subprocesses. The default is on."), _("\
572 Show use of shell to start subprocesses."), NULL,
574 show_startup_with_shell,
575 &setlist, &showlist);