* fork-child.c (fork_inferior): Fork instead of vfork if
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1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
2
3 Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999,
4 2000, 2001, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5
6 Contributed by Cygnus Support.
7
8 This file is part of GDB.
9
10 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
11 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
12 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
13 (at your option) any later version.
14
15 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
18 GNU General Public License for more details.
19
20 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
22 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
23 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
24
25 #include "defs.h"
26 #include "gdb_string.h"
27 #include "frame.h" /* required by inferior.h */
28 #include "inferior.h"
29 #include "target.h"
30 #include "gdb_wait.h"
31 #include "gdb_vfork.h"
32 #include "gdbcore.h"
33 #include "terminal.h"
34 #include "gdbthread.h"
35 #include "command.h" /* for dont_repeat () */
36
37 #include <signal.h>
38
39 /* This just gets used as a default if we can't find SHELL. */
40 #ifndef SHELL_FILE
41 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
42 #endif
43
44 extern char **environ;
45
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". */
50
51 static void
52 breakup_args (char *scratch, char **argv)
53 {
54 char *cp = scratch;
55
56 for (;;)
57 {
58 /* Scan past leading separators */
59 while (*cp == ' ' || *cp == '\t' || *cp == '\n')
60 cp++;
61
62 /* Break if at end of string. */
63 if (*cp == '\0')
64 break;
65
66 /* Take an arg. */
67 *argv++ = cp;
68
69 /* Scan for next arg separator. */
70 cp = strchr (cp, ' ');
71 if (cp == NULL)
72 cp = strchr (cp, '\t');
73 if (cp == NULL)
74 cp = strchr (cp, '\n');
75
76 /* No separators => end of string => break. */
77 if (cp == NULL)
78 break;
79
80 /* Replace the separator with a terminator. */
81 *cp++ = '\0';
82 }
83
84 /* Null-terminate the vector. */
85 *argv = NULL;
86 }
87
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. */
91
92 static int
93 escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (const char *shell_file)
94 {
95 const int shell_file_len = strlen (shell_file);
96
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. */
100
101 if (shell_file_len < 3)
102 return 0;
103
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')
107 return 1;
108
109 return 0;
110 }
111
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
116 one. */
117
118 /* This function is NOT reentrant. Some of the variables have been
119 made static to ensure that they survive the vfork call. */
120
121 void
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)
125 {
126 int pid;
127 char *shell_command;
128 static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
129 int len;
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;
137 char **save_our_env;
138 int shell = 0;
139 static char **argv;
140
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;
144 if (exec_file == 0)
145 exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
146
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
149 shell. */
150 shell_file = shell_file_arg;
151 if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
152 {
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;
158 shell = 1;
159 }
160
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);
170 #else
171 shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
172 shell_command[0] = '\0';
173 #endif
174
175 if (!shell)
176 {
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
180 argument. */
181 int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
182 argv = (char **) xmalloc (argc * sizeof (*argv));
183 argv[0] = exec_file;
184 breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
185 }
186 else
187 {
188 /* We're going to call a shell. */
189
190 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
191
192 char *p;
193 int need_to_quote;
194 const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
195
196 strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
197
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
200 we need to. */
201 p = exec_file;
202 while (1)
203 {
204 switch (*p)
205 {
206 case '\'':
207 case '!':
208 case '"':
209 case '(':
210 case ')':
211 case '$':
212 case '&':
213 case ';':
214 case '<':
215 case '>':
216 case ' ':
217 case '\n':
218 case '\t':
219 need_to_quote = 1;
220 goto end_scan;
221
222 case '\0':
223 need_to_quote = 0;
224 goto end_scan;
225
226 default:
227 break;
228 }
229 ++p;
230 }
231 end_scan:
232 if (need_to_quote)
233 {
234 strcat (shell_command, "'");
235 for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
236 {
237 if (*p == '\'')
238 strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
239 else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
240 strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
241 else
242 strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
243 }
244 strcat (shell_command, "'");
245 }
246 else
247 strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
248
249 strcat (shell_command, " ");
250 strcat (shell_command, allargs);
251 }
252
253 /* On some systems an exec will fail if the executable is open. */
254 close_exec_file ();
255
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
258 restore it. */
259 save_our_env = environ;
260
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);
264
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);
270
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
273 now... */
274 if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
275 (*pre_trace_fun) ();
276
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)
289 pid = fork ();
290 else
291 pid = vfork ();
292
293 if (pid < 0)
294 perror_with_name ("vfork");
295
296 if (pid == 0)
297 {
298 if (debug_fork)
299 sleep (debug_fork);
300
301 /* Run inferior in a separate process group. */
302 debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
303 if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
304 perror ("setpgrp failed in child");
305
306 /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
307 earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
308 specified). */
309 new_tty ();
310
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
315 for the inferior. */
316
317 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
318 (*traceme_fun) ();
319
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
327 statements! */
328
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. */
334 environ = env;
335
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. */
342 if (shell)
343 {
344 execlp (shell_file, shell_file, "-c", shell_command, (char *) 0);
345
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);
350 _exit (0177);
351 }
352 else
353 {
354 /* Otherwise, we directly exec the target program with
355 execvp. */
356 int i;
357 char *errstring;
358
359 execvp (exec_file, argv);
360
361 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
362 errstring = safe_strerror (errno);
363 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s ", exec_file);
364
365 i = 1;
366 while (argv[i] != NULL)
367 {
368 if (i != 1)
369 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " ");
370 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "%s", argv[i]);
371 i++;
372 }
373 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
374 #if 0
375 /* This extra info seems to be useless. */
376 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Got error %s.\n", errstring);
377 #endif
378 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
379 _exit (0177);
380 }
381 }
382
383 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
384 environ = save_our_env;
385
386 init_thread_list ();
387
388 /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below. */
389 inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
390
391 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
392 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
393 initializing. */
394 (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
395
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
398 new program. */
399
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);
404
405 #ifdef SOLIB_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK
406 SOLIB_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK (pid);
407 #endif
408 }
409
410 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior. */
411
412 void
413 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
414 {
415 int pending_execs = ntraps;
416 int terminal_initted = 0;
417
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. */
421
422 clear_proceed_status ();
423
424 init_wait_for_inferior ();
425
426 if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
427 inferior_ignoring_startup_exec_events = ntraps;
428 else
429 inferior_ignoring_startup_exec_events = 0;
430 inferior_ignoring_leading_exec_events =
431 target_reported_exec_events_per_exec_call () - 1;
432
433 while (1)
434 {
435 /* Make wait_for_inferior be quiet. */
436 stop_soon = STOP_QUIETLY;
437 wait_for_inferior ();
438 if (stop_signal != TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP)
439 {
440 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way.
441 FIXME: what if child has exited? Must exit loop
442 somehow. */
443 resume (0, stop_signal);
444 }
445 else
446 {
447 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
448 if (!terminal_initted)
449 {
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
453 setpgid. */
454
455 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
456 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
457 target_terminal_init ();
458
459 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
460 target_terminal_inferior ();
461
462 terminal_initted = 1;
463 }
464
465 if (--pending_execs == 0)
466 break;
467
468 resume (0, TARGET_SIGNAL_0); /* Just make it go on. */
469 }
470 }
471 stop_soon = NO_STOP_QUIETLY;
472 }
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