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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.
4
5This file is part of GDB.
6
7This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10(at your option) any later version.
11
12This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15GNU General Public License for more details.
16
17You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
20
21#include "defs.h"
22#include "frame.h" /* required by inferior.h */
23#include "inferior.h"
24#include "target.h"
25#include "wait.h"
26#include "gdbcore.h"
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27#include "serial.h" /* For job_control. */
28#include "terminal.h" /* For new_tty */
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29
30#include <signal.h>
31
32#ifdef SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE
33#include <sys/time.h>
34#include <sys/resource.h>
35
36extern int original_stack_limit;
37#endif /* SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE */
38
39extern char **environ;
40
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(). */
45
46#ifndef SHELL_FILE
47#define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
48#endif
49
50void
51fork_inferior (exec_file, allargs, env, traceme_fun, init_trace_fun)
52 char *exec_file;
53 char *allargs;
54 char **env;
55 void (*traceme_fun) PARAMS ((void));
56 void (*init_trace_fun) PARAMS ((int));
57{
58 int pid;
59 char *shell_command;
60 char *shell_file;
61 static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
62 int len;
63 int pending_execs;
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;
69 char **save_our_env;
70
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. */
73 if (exec_file == 0)
74 exec_file = get_exec_file(1);
75
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;
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84
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;
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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);
94#else
95 shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
96 shell_command[0] = '\0';
97#endif
98 strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
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38bbfd37 100 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
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101 {
102 char *p;
38bbfd37 103 int need_to_quote;
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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
107 to. */
108 p = exec_file;
109 while (1)
3768398d 110 {
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111 switch (*p)
112 {
113 case '\'':
114 case '"':
115 case '(':
116 case ')':
117 case '$':
118 case '&':
119 case ';':
120 case '<':
121 case '>':
122 case ' ':
123 case '\n':
124 case '\t':
125 need_to_quote = 1;
126 goto end_scan;
127
128 case '\0':
129 need_to_quote = 0;
130 goto end_scan;
131
132 default:
133 break;
134 }
135 ++p;
3768398d 136 }
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137 end_scan:
138 if (need_to_quote)
139 {
140 strcat (shell_command, "'");
141 for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
142 {
143 if (*p == '\'')
144 strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
145 else
146 strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
147 }
148 strcat (shell_command, "'");
149 }
150 else
151 strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
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152 }
153
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154 strcat (shell_command, " ");
155 strcat (shell_command, allargs);
156
157 /* exec is said to fail if the executable is open. */
158 close_exec_file ();
159
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
162 restore it. */
163 save_our_env = environ;
164
165 /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
166 it will just record the information for later. */
167
168 new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
169
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. */
173
174 fflush (stdout);
175 fflush (stderr);
176
177#if defined(USG) && !defined(HAVE_VFORK)
178 pid = fork ();
179#else
180 if (debug_fork)
181 pid = fork ();
182 else
183 pid = vfork ();
184#endif
185
186 if (pid < 0)
187 perror_with_name ("vfork");
188
189 if (pid == 0)
190 {
191 if (debug_fork)
192 sleep (debug_fork);
193
3fbdd536 194 /* Run inferior in a separate process group. */
c2e247c4 195 debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
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196 if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
197 perror("setpgrp failed in child");
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198
199#ifdef SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE
200 /* Reset the stack limit back to what it was. */
201 {
202 struct rlimit rlim;
203
204 getrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
205 rlim.rlim_cur = original_stack_limit;
206 setrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
207 }
208#endif /* SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE */
209
210 /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified earlier
211 (or to share the current terminal, if none was specified). */
212
213 new_tty ();
214
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
219 for the inferior. */
220
221 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
222 (*traceme_fun) ();
223
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. */
229 environ = env;
230 execlp (shell_file, shell_file, "-c", shell_command, (char *)0);
231
232 fprintf (stderr, "Cannot exec %s: %s.\n", shell_file,
233 safe_strerror (errno));
234 fflush (stderr);
235 _exit (0177);
236 }
237
238 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
239 environ = save_our_env;
240
241 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
242 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs initializing. */
243 (*init_trace_fun)(pid);
244
245#ifdef CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK
246 CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK (pid);
247#endif
248
249/* The process was started by the fork that created it,
250 but it will have stopped one instruction after execing the shell.
251 Here we must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
252
253 inferior_pid = pid; /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below */
254
255 clear_proceed_status ();
256
257 /* We will get a trace trap after one instruction.
258 Continue it automatically. Eventually (after shell does an exec)
259 it will get another trace trap. Then insert breakpoints and continue. */
260
261#ifdef START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED
262 pending_execs = START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED;
263#else
264 pending_execs = 2;
265#endif
266
267 init_wait_for_inferior ();
268
269 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
270 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
271 target_terminal_init ();
272
273 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
274 target_terminal_inferior ();
275
276 while (1)
277 {
278 stop_soon_quietly = 1; /* Make wait_for_inferior be quiet */
279 wait_for_inferior ();
280 if (stop_signal != SIGTRAP)
281 {
282 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way */
283 /* FIXME, what if child has exit()ed? Must exit loop somehow */
284 resume (0, stop_signal);
285 }
286 else
287 {
288 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
289 if (0 == --pending_execs)
290 break;
291 resume (0, 0); /* Just make it go on */
292 }
293 }
294 stop_soon_quietly = 0;
295
296 /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
297 correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
298 new program. */
299#ifdef SOLIB_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK
300 SOLIB_CREATE_INFERIOR_HOOK (pid);
301#endif
302}
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