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1/* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB and GDBserver.
2
1d506c26 3 Copyright (C) 1990-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4
5 This file is part of GDB.
6
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 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
11
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.
16
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19
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20#include "fork-inferior.h"
21#include "target/waitstatus.h"
268a13a5 22#include "gdbsupport/filestuff.h"
2090129c 23#include "target/target.h"
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24#include "gdbsupport/common-inferior.h"
25#include "gdbsupport/common-gdbthread.h"
26#include "gdbsupport/pathstuff.h"
27#include "gdbsupport/signals-state-save-restore.h"
28#include "gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.h"
559798f8 29#include "gdbsupport/gdb_signals.h"
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30#include <vector>
31
32extern char **environ;
33
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34/* Build the argument vector for execv(3). */
35
36class execv_argv
37{
38public:
39 /* EXEC_FILE is the file to run. ALLARGS is a string containing the
40 arguments to the program. If starting with a shell, SHELL_FILE
41 is the shell to run. Otherwise, SHELL_FILE is NULL. */
42 execv_argv (const char *exec_file, const std::string &allargs,
43 const char *shell_file);
44
45 /* Return a pointer to the built argv, in the type expected by
46 execv. The result is (only) valid for as long as this execv_argv
47 object is live. We return a "char **" because that's the type
48 that the execv functions expect. Note that it is guaranteed that
49 the execv functions do not modify the argv[] array nor the
50 strings to which the array point. */
51 char **argv ()
52 {
53 return const_cast<char **> (&m_argv[0]);
54 }
55
56private:
d6541620 57 DISABLE_COPY_AND_ASSIGN (execv_argv);
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58
59 /* Helper methods for constructing the argument vector. */
60
61 /* Used when building an argv for a straight execv call, without
62 going via the shell. */
63 void init_for_no_shell (const char *exec_file,
64 const std::string &allargs);
65
66 /* Used when building an argv for execing a shell that execs the
67 child program. */
68 void init_for_shell (const char *exec_file,
69 const std::string &allargs,
70 const char *shell_file);
71
72 /* The argument vector built. Holds non-owning pointers. Elements
73 either point to the strings passed to the execv_argv ctor, or
74 inside M_STORAGE. */
75 std::vector<const char *> m_argv;
76
77 /* Storage. In the no-shell case, this contains a copy of the
78 arguments passed to the ctor, split by '\0'. In the shell case,
79 this contains the quoted shell command. I.e., SHELL_COMMAND in
80 {"$SHELL" "-c", SHELL_COMMAND, NULL}. */
81 std::string m_storage;
82};
83
84/* Create argument vector for straight call to execvp. Breaks up
85 ALLARGS into an argument vector suitable for passing to execvp and
86 stores it in M_ARGV. E.g., on "run a b c d" this routine would get
87 as input the string "a b c d", and as output it would fill in
88 M_ARGV with the four arguments "a", "b", "c", "d". Each argument
89 in M_ARGV points to a substring of a copy of ALLARGS stored in
90 M_STORAGE. */
91
92void
93execv_argv::init_for_no_shell (const char *exec_file,
94 const std::string &allargs)
95{
96
97 /* Save/work with a copy stored in our storage. The pointers pushed
98 to M_ARGV point directly into M_STORAGE, which is modified in
99 place with the necessary NULL terminators. This avoids N heap
100 allocations and string dups when 1 is sufficient. */
101 std::string &args_copy = m_storage = allargs;
102
103 m_argv.push_back (exec_file);
104
105 for (size_t cur_pos = 0; cur_pos < args_copy.size ();)
106 {
107 /* Skip whitespace-like chars. */
108 std::size_t pos = args_copy.find_first_not_of (" \t\n", cur_pos);
109
110 if (pos != std::string::npos)
111 cur_pos = pos;
112
113 /* Find the position of the next separator. */
114 std::size_t next_sep = args_copy.find_first_of (" \t\n", cur_pos);
115
116 if (next_sep == std::string::npos)
117 {
118 /* No separator found, which means this is the last
119 argument. */
120 next_sep = args_copy.size ();
121 }
122 else
123 {
124 /* Replace the separator with a terminator. */
125 args_copy[next_sep++] = '\0';
126 }
127
128 m_argv.push_back (&args_copy[cur_pos]);
129
130 cur_pos = next_sep;
131 }
132
133 /* NULL-terminate the vector. */
134 m_argv.push_back (NULL);
135}
136
137/* When executing a command under the given shell, return true if the
138 '!' character should be escaped when embedded in a quoted
139 command-line argument. */
140
141static bool
142escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (const char *shell_file)
143{
144 size_t shell_file_len = strlen (shell_file);
145
146 /* Bang should be escaped only in C Shells. For now, simply check
147 that the shell name ends with 'csh', which covers at least csh
148 and tcsh. This should be good enough for now. */
149
150 if (shell_file_len < 3)
151 return false;
152
153 if (shell_file[shell_file_len - 3] == 'c'
154 && shell_file[shell_file_len - 2] == 's'
155 && shell_file[shell_file_len - 1] == 'h')
156 return true;
157
158 return false;
159}
160
161/* See declaration. */
162
163execv_argv::execv_argv (const char *exec_file,
164 const std::string &allargs,
165 const char *shell_file)
166{
167 if (shell_file == NULL)
168 init_for_no_shell (exec_file, allargs);
169 else
170 init_for_shell (exec_file, allargs, shell_file);
171}
172
173/* See declaration. */
174
175void
176execv_argv::init_for_shell (const char *exec_file,
177 const std::string &allargs,
178 const char *shell_file)
179{
180 const char *exec_wrapper = get_exec_wrapper ();
181
182 /* We're going to call a shell. */
183 bool escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
184
185 /* We need to build a new shell command string, and make argv point
186 to it. So build it in the storage. */
187 std::string &shell_command = m_storage;
188
189 shell_command = "exec ";
190
191 /* Add any exec wrapper. That may be a program name with arguments,
192 so the user must handle quoting. */
193 if (exec_wrapper != NULL)
194 {
195 shell_command += exec_wrapper;
196 shell_command += ' ';
197 }
198
199 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
200
201 /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells. But csh
202 on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it. So we only quote it if we need
203 to. */
204 bool need_to_quote;
205 const char *p = exec_file;
206 while (1)
207 {
208 switch (*p)
209 {
210 case '\'':
211 case '!':
212 case '"':
213 case '(':
214 case ')':
215 case '$':
216 case '&':
217 case ';':
218 case '<':
219 case '>':
220 case ' ':
221 case '\n':
222 case '\t':
223 need_to_quote = true;
224 goto end_scan;
225
226 case '\0':
227 need_to_quote = false;
228 goto end_scan;
229
230 default:
231 break;
232 }
233 ++p;
234 }
235 end_scan:
236 if (need_to_quote)
237 {
238 shell_command += '\'';
239 for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
240 {
241 if (*p == '\'')
242 shell_command += "'\\''";
243 else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
244 shell_command += "\\!";
245 else
246 shell_command += *p;
247 }
248 shell_command += '\'';
249 }
250 else
251 shell_command += exec_file;
252
253 shell_command += ' ' + allargs;
254
255 /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the shell.
256 "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command to
257 execute, and this command is "exec <target-program> <args>". */
258 m_argv.reserve (4);
259 m_argv.push_back (shell_file);
260 m_argv.push_back ("-c");
261 m_argv.push_back (shell_command.c_str ());
262 m_argv.push_back (NULL);
263}
264
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265/* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
266
267pid_t
268fork_inferior (const char *exec_file_arg, const std::string &allargs,
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269 char **env, traceme_ftype traceme_fun,
270 init_trace_ftype init_trace_fun, pre_trace_ftype pre_trace_fun,
271 const char *shell_file_arg, exec_ftype exec_fun)
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272{
273 pid_t pid;
274 /* Set debug_fork then attach to the child while it sleeps, to debug. */
275 int debug_fork = 0;
276 const char *shell_file;
277 const char *exec_file;
278 char **save_our_env;
279 int i;
280 int save_errno;
281
282 /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
283 -- with a good, common error message if none is specified. */
284 if (exec_file_arg == NULL)
285 exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
286 else
287 exec_file = exec_file_arg;
288
289 /* 'startup_with_shell' is declared in inferior.h and bound to the
290 "set startup-with-shell" option. If 0, we'll just do a
291 fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what shell. */
292 if (startup_with_shell)
293 {
294 shell_file = shell_file_arg;
295
296 /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under. */
297 if (shell_file == NULL)
974e6844 298 shell_file = get_shell ();
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299
300 gdb_assert (shell_file != NULL);
301 }
302 else
303 shell_file = NULL;
304
305 /* Build the argument vector. */
306 execv_argv child_argv (exec_file, allargs, shell_file);
307
308 /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
309 replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
310 restore it. */
311 save_our_env = environ;
312
313 /* Perform any necessary actions regarding to TTY before the
314 fork/vfork call. */
315 prefork_hook (allargs.c_str ());
316
317 /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
318 output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
319 the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork. */
320 gdb_flush_out_err ();
321
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322 /* Check if the user wants to set a different working directory for
323 the inferior. */
11bd012e 324 std::string inferior_cwd = get_inferior_cwd ();
d092c5a2 325
11bd012e 326 if (!inferior_cwd.empty ())
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327 {
328 /* Expand before forking because between fork and exec, the child
329 process may only execute async-signal-safe operations. */
11bd012e 330 inferior_cwd = gdb_tilde_expand (inferior_cwd.c_str ());
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331 }
332
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333 /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
334 happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
335 now... */
336 if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
108f22e4 337 pre_trace_fun ();
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338
339 /* Create the child process. Since the child process is going to
340 exec(3) shortly afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
341 calling vfork(2). However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
342 likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
343 work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3). This is known
344 to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
345 between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
346 exec(2). However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
347 state, this doesn't work. Also note that the vfork(2) call might
348 actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
349 ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms. */
350#if !(defined(__UCLIBC__) && defined(HAS_NOMMU))
351 if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
352 pid = fork ();
353 else
354#endif
355 pid = vfork ();
356
357 if (pid < 0)
358 perror_with_name (("vfork"));
359
360 if (pid == 0)
361 {
362 /* Close all file descriptors except those that gdb inherited
363 (usually 0/1/2), so they don't leak to the inferior. Note
364 that this closes the file descriptors of all secondary
365 UIs. */
366 close_most_fds ();
367
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368 /* Change to the requested working directory if the user
369 requested it. */
11bd012e 370 if (!inferior_cwd.empty ())
d092c5a2 371 {
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372 if (chdir (inferior_cwd.c_str ()) < 0)
373 trace_start_error_with_name (inferior_cwd.c_str ());
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374 }
375
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376 if (debug_fork)
377 sleep (debug_fork);
378
379 /* Execute any necessary post-fork actions before we exec. */
380 postfork_child_hook ();
381
382 /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
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383 a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
384 with signals here. See comments in
385 initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
386 for the inferior. */
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387
388 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
108f22e4 389 traceme_fun ();
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390
391 /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
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392 by the original gdb process (the "parent"). Since processes
393 (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
394 gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
395 controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
396 undebuggable. Indeed, you probably got an error message
397 saying "not parent". Sorry; you'll have to use print
398 statements! */
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399
400 restore_original_signals_state ();
401
402 /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
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403 for our child in the global variable. If we've vforked, this
404 clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
405 in the parent. By the way, yes we do need to look down the
406 path to find $SHELL. Rich Pixley says so, and I agree. */
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407 environ = env;
408
409 char **argv = child_argv.argv ();
410
411 if (exec_fun != NULL)
108f22e4 412 exec_fun (argv[0], &argv[0], env);
2090129c 413 else
dda83cd7 414 execvp (argv[0], &argv[0]);
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415
416 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
417 save_errno = errno;
418 warning ("Cannot exec %s", argv[0]);
419
420 for (i = 1; argv[i] != NULL; i++)
421 warning (" %s", argv[i]);
422
422186a9 423 warning ("Error: %s", safe_strerror (save_errno));
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424
425 _exit (0177);
426 }
427
428 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
429 environ = save_our_env;
430
431 postfork_hook (pid);
432
433 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
434 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
435 initializing. */
436 if (init_trace_fun)
e7eee665 437 init_trace_fun (pid);
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438
439 /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
440 correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
441 new program. */
442 return pid;
443}
444
445/* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
446
447ptid_t
5b6d1e4f 448startup_inferior (process_stratum_target *proc_target, pid_t pid, int ntraps,
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449 struct target_waitstatus *last_waitstatus,
450 ptid_t *last_ptid)
451{
452 int pending_execs = ntraps;
453 int terminal_initted = 0;
454 ptid_t resume_ptid;
455
456 if (startup_with_shell)
457 {
458 /* One trap extra for exec'ing the shell. */
459 pending_execs++;
460 }
461
462 if (target_supports_multi_process ())
f2907e49 463 resume_ptid = ptid_t (pid);
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464 else
465 resume_ptid = minus_one_ptid;
466
467 /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
468 have stopped one instruction after execing the shell. Here we
469 must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
470 if (get_exec_wrapper () != NULL)
471 pending_execs++;
472
473 while (1)
474 {
475 enum gdb_signal resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_0;
476 ptid_t event_ptid;
477
478 struct target_waitstatus ws;
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479 event_ptid = target_wait (resume_ptid, &ws, 0);
480
481 if (last_waitstatus != NULL)
482 *last_waitstatus = ws;
483 if (last_ptid != NULL)
484 *last_ptid = event_ptid;
485
183be222 486 if (ws.kind () == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
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487 /* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting. */
488 continue;
489
183be222 490 switch (ws.kind ())
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491 {
492 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
493 case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
494 case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
495 case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
496 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
497 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
498 /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior. */
5b6d1e4f 499 switch_to_thread (proc_target, event_ptid);
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500 break;
501
502 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
223ffa71 503 target_terminal::ours ();
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504 target_mourn_inferior (event_ptid);
505 error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
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506 gdb_signal_to_name (ws.sig ()),
507 gdb_signal_to_string (ws.sig ()));
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508 return resume_ptid;
509
510 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
223ffa71 511 target_terminal::ours ();
2090129c 512 target_mourn_inferior (event_ptid);
183be222 513 if (ws.exit_status ())
2090129c 514 error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
183be222 515 ws.exit_status ());
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516 else
517 error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
518 return resume_ptid;
519
520 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
521 /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals. */
2090129c 522 resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP;
5b6d1e4f 523 switch_to_thread (proc_target, event_ptid);
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524 break;
525
526 case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
183be222 527 resume_signal = ws.sig ();
5b6d1e4f 528 switch_to_thread (proc_target, event_ptid);
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529 break;
530 }
531
532 if (resume_signal != GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP)
533 {
534 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way. */
535 target_continue (resume_ptid, resume_signal);
536 }
537 else
538 {
539 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
540 if (!terminal_initted)
541 {
542 /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
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543 set its process group. On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
544 will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
545 setpgid. */
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546
547 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
dda83cd7 548 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
223ffa71 549 target_terminal::init ();
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550
551 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
223ffa71 552 target_terminal::inferior ();
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553
554 terminal_initted = 1;
555 }
556
557 if (--pending_execs == 0)
558 break;
559
560 /* Just make it go on. */
561 target_continue_no_signal (resume_ptid);
562 }
563 }
564
565 return resume_ptid;
566}
567
568/* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
569
570void
571trace_start_error (const char *fmt, ...)
572{
573 va_list ap;
574
575 va_start (ap, fmt);
47a536d9 576 warning ("Could not trace the inferior process.");
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577 vwarning (fmt, ap);
578 va_end (ap);
579
580 gdb_flush_out_err ();
581 _exit (0177);
582}
583
584/* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
585
586void
50fa3001 587trace_start_error_with_name (const char *string)
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50fa3001 589 trace_start_error ("%s: %s", string, safe_strerror (errno));
2090129c 590}