1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
3 Copyright (C) 1990-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 Contributed by Cygnus Support.
7 This file is part of GDB.
9 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
10 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
11 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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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
16 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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19 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
20 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
23 #include "gdb_string.h"
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 defined in inferior.h. If 0,e we'll just
154 do a fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what
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 (target_supports_multi_process ())
423 resume_ptid
= pid_to_ptid (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid
));
425 resume_ptid
= minus_one_ptid
;
427 /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
428 have stopped one instruction after execing the shell. Here we
429 must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
436 enum gdb_signal resume_signal
= GDB_SIGNAL_0
;
439 struct target_waitstatus ws
;
440 memset (&ws
, 0, sizeof (ws
));
441 event_ptid
= target_wait (resume_ptid
, &ws
, 0);
443 if (ws
.kind
== TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE
)
444 /* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting. */
449 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS
:
450 case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED
:
451 case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED
:
452 case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED
:
453 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY
:
454 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN
:
455 /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior. */
456 switch_to_thread (event_ptid
);
459 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED
:
460 target_terminal_ours ();
461 target_mourn_inferior ();
462 error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
463 gdb_signal_to_name (ws
.value
.sig
),
464 gdb_signal_to_string (ws
.value
.sig
));
467 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED
:
468 target_terminal_ours ();
469 target_mourn_inferior ();
470 if (ws
.value
.integer
)
471 error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
474 error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
477 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD
:
478 /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals. */
479 xfree (ws
.value
.execd_pathname
);
480 resume_signal
= GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP
;
481 switch_to_thread (event_ptid
);
484 case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
:
485 resume_signal
= ws
.value
.sig
;
486 switch_to_thread (event_ptid
);
490 if (resume_signal
!= GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP
)
492 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way. */
493 target_resume (resume_ptid
, 0, resume_signal
);
497 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
498 if (!terminal_initted
)
500 /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
501 set its process group. On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
502 will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
505 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
506 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
507 target_terminal_init ();
509 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
510 target_terminal_inferior ();
512 terminal_initted
= 1;
515 if (--pending_execs
== 0)
518 /* Just make it go on. */
519 target_resume (resume_ptid
, 0, GDB_SIGNAL_0
);
523 /* Mark all threads non-executing. */
524 set_executing (resume_ptid
, 0);
527 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command. */
530 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args
, int from_tty
)
532 xfree (exec_wrapper
);
536 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes. */
537 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_fork_child
;
540 _initialize_fork_child (void)
542 add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run
, &exec_wrapper
, _("\
543 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
544 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
546 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL
,
548 &setlist
, &showlist
);
550 add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run
, unset_exec_wrapper_command
,
551 _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),