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1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
2
3 Copyright (C) 1990-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 Contributed by Cygnus Support.
6
7 This file is part of GDB.
8
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
12 (at your option) any later version.
13
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
17 GNU General Public License for more details.
18
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/>. */
21
22 #include "defs.h"
23 #include "inferior.h"
24 #include "terminal.h"
25 #include "target.h"
26 #include "gdb_wait.h"
27 #include "gdb_vfork.h"
28 #include "gdbcore.h"
29 #include "gdbthread.h"
30 #include "command.h" /* for dont_repeat () */
31 #include "gdbcmd.h"
32 #include "solib.h"
33 #include "filestuff.h"
34 #include "top.h"
35 #include "signals-state-save-restore.h"
36 #include <signal.h>
37
38 /* This just gets used as a default if we can't find SHELL. */
39 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
40
41 extern char **environ;
42
43 static char *exec_wrapper;
44
45 /* Break up SCRATCH into an argument vector suitable for passing to
46 execvp and store it in ARGV. E.g., on "run a b c d" this routine
47 would get as input the string "a b c d", and as output it would
48 fill in ARGV with the four arguments "a", "b", "c", "d". */
49
50 static void
51 breakup_args (char *scratch, char **argv)
52 {
53 char *cp = scratch, *tmp;
54
55 for (;;)
56 {
57 /* Scan past leading separators */
58 while (*cp == ' ' || *cp == '\t' || *cp == '\n')
59 cp++;
60
61 /* Break if at end of string. */
62 if (*cp == '\0')
63 break;
64
65 /* Take an arg. */
66 *argv++ = cp;
67
68 /* Scan for next arg separator. */
69 tmp = strchr (cp, ' ');
70 if (tmp == NULL)
71 tmp = strchr (cp, '\t');
72 if (tmp == NULL)
73 tmp = strchr (cp, '\n');
74
75 /* No separators => end of string => break. */
76 if (tmp == NULL)
77 break;
78 cp = tmp;
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 /* See inferior.h. */
113
114 void
115 trace_start_error (const char *fmt, ...)
116 {
117 va_list ap;
118
119 va_start (ap, fmt);
120 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Could not trace the inferior "
121 "process.\nError: ");
122 vfprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, fmt, ap);
123 va_end (ap);
124
125 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
126 _exit (0177);
127 }
128
129 /* See inferior.h. */
130
131 void
132 trace_start_error_with_name (const char *string)
133 {
134 trace_start_error ("%s: %s", string, safe_strerror (errno));
135 }
136
137 /* Start an inferior Unix child process and sets inferior_ptid to its
138 pid. EXEC_FILE is the file to run. ALLARGS is a string containing
139 the arguments to the program. ENV is the environment vector to
140 pass. SHELL_FILE is the shell file, or NULL if we should pick
141 one. EXEC_FUN is the exec(2) function to use, or NULL for the default
142 one. */
143
144 /* This function is NOT reentrant. Some of the variables have been
145 made static to ensure that they survive the vfork call. */
146
147 int
148 fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
149 void (*traceme_fun) (void), void (*init_trace_fun) (int),
150 void (*pre_trace_fun) (void), char *shell_file_arg,
151 void (*exec_fun)(const char *file, char * const *argv,
152 char * const *env))
153 {
154 int pid;
155 static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
156 /* Set debug_fork then attach to the child while it sleeps, to debug. */
157 static int debug_fork = 0;
158 /* This is set to the result of setpgrp, which if vforked, will be visible
159 to you in the parent process. It's only used by humans for debugging. */
160 static int debug_setpgrp = 657473;
161 static char *shell_file;
162 static char *exec_file;
163 char **save_our_env;
164 int shell = 0;
165 static char **argv;
166 const char *inferior_io_terminal = get_inferior_io_terminal ();
167 struct inferior *inf;
168 int i;
169 int save_errno;
170 struct ui *save_ui;
171
172 /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
173 -- with a good, common error message if none is specified. */
174 exec_file = exec_file_arg;
175 if (exec_file == 0)
176 exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
177
178 /* 'startup_with_shell' is declared in inferior.h and bound to the
179 "set startup-with-shell" option. If 0, we'll just do a
180 fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what shell. */
181 shell_file = shell_file_arg;
182 if (startup_with_shell)
183 {
184 /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under. */
185 if (shell_file == NULL)
186 shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
187 if (shell_file == NULL)
188 shell_file = default_shell_file;
189 shell = 1;
190 }
191
192 if (!shell)
193 {
194 /* We're going to call execvp. Create argument vector.
195 Calculate an upper bound on the length of the vector by
196 assuming that every other character is a separate
197 argument. */
198 int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
199
200 argv = XALLOCAVEC (char *, argc);
201 argv[0] = exec_file;
202 breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
203 }
204 else
205 {
206 /* We're going to call a shell. */
207 char *shell_command;
208 int len;
209 char *p;
210 int need_to_quote;
211 const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
212
213 /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
214 fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
215 based on every character being '. */
216 len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
217 if (exec_wrapper)
218 len += strlen (exec_wrapper) + 1;
219
220 shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
221 shell_command[0] = '\0';
222
223 strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
224
225 /* Add any exec wrapper. That may be a program name with arguments, so
226 the user must handle quoting. */
227 if (exec_wrapper)
228 {
229 strcat (shell_command, exec_wrapper);
230 strcat (shell_command, " ");
231 }
232
233 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
234
235 /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells. But
236 csh on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it. So we only quote it if
237 we need to. */
238 p = exec_file;
239 while (1)
240 {
241 switch (*p)
242 {
243 case '\'':
244 case '!':
245 case '"':
246 case '(':
247 case ')':
248 case '$':
249 case '&':
250 case ';':
251 case '<':
252 case '>':
253 case ' ':
254 case '\n':
255 case '\t':
256 need_to_quote = 1;
257 goto end_scan;
258
259 case '\0':
260 need_to_quote = 0;
261 goto end_scan;
262
263 default:
264 break;
265 }
266 ++p;
267 }
268 end_scan:
269 if (need_to_quote)
270 {
271 strcat (shell_command, "'");
272 for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
273 {
274 if (*p == '\'')
275 strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
276 else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
277 strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
278 else
279 strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
280 }
281 strcat (shell_command, "'");
282 }
283 else
284 strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
285
286 strcat (shell_command, " ");
287 strcat (shell_command, allargs);
288
289 /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
290 shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
291 to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
292 <args>". */
293 argv = (char **) alloca (4 * sizeof (char *));
294 argv[0] = shell_file;
295 argv[1] = (char *) "-c";
296 argv[2] = shell_command;
297 argv[3] = (char *) 0;
298 }
299
300 /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
301 replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
302 restore it. */
303 save_our_env = environ;
304
305 /* Likewise the current UI. */
306 save_ui = current_ui;
307
308 /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
309 it will just record the information for later. */
310 new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
311
312 /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
313 output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
314 the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork. */
315 gdb_flush (main_ui->m_gdb_stdout);
316 gdb_flush (main_ui->m_gdb_stderr);
317
318 /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
319 happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
320 now... */
321 if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
322 (*pre_trace_fun) ();
323
324 /* Create the child process. Since the child process is going to
325 exec(3) shortly afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
326 calling vfork(2). However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
327 likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
328 work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3). This is known
329 to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
330 between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
331 exec(2). However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
332 state, this doesn't work. Also note that the vfork(2) call might
333 actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
334 ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms. */
335 if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
336 pid = fork ();
337 else
338 pid = vfork ();
339
340 if (pid < 0)
341 perror_with_name (("vfork"));
342
343 if (pid == 0)
344 {
345 /* Switch to the main UI, so that gdb_std{in/out/err} in the
346 child are mapped to std{in/out/err}. This makes it possible
347 to use fprintf_unfiltered/warning/error/etc. in the child
348 from here on. */
349 current_ui = main_ui;
350
351 /* Close all file descriptors except those that gdb inherited
352 (usually 0/1/2), so they don't leak to the inferior. Note
353 that this closes the file descriptors of all secondary
354 UIs. */
355 close_most_fds ();
356
357 if (debug_fork)
358 sleep (debug_fork);
359
360 /* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
361 It will also place the inferior in a separate process group. */
362 if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
363 {
364 /* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
365 in a separate process group. */
366 debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
367 if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
368 perror (_("setpgrp failed in child"));
369 }
370
371 /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
372 earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
373 specified). */
374 new_tty ();
375
376 /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
377 a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
378 with signals here. See comments in
379 initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
380 for the inferior. */
381
382 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
383 (*traceme_fun) ();
384
385 /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
386 by the original gdb process (the "parent"). Since processes
387 (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
388 gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
389 controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
390 undebuggable. Indeed, you probably got an error message
391 saying "not parent". Sorry; you'll have to use print
392 statements! */
393
394 restore_original_signals_state ();
395
396 /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
397 for our child in the global variable. If we've vforked, this
398 clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
399 in the parent. By the way, yes we do need to look down the
400 path to find $SHELL. Rich Pixley says so, and I agree. */
401 environ = env;
402
403 if (exec_fun != NULL)
404 (*exec_fun) (argv[0], argv, env);
405 else
406 execvp (argv[0], argv);
407
408 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
409 save_errno = errno;
410 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s", argv[0]);
411 for (i = 1; argv[i] != NULL; i++)
412 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " %s", argv[i]);
413 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
414 fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Error: %s\n",
415 safe_strerror (save_errno));
416 gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
417 _exit (0177);
418 }
419
420 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
421 environ = save_our_env;
422
423 /* Likewise the current UI. */
424 current_ui = save_ui;
425
426 if (!have_inferiors ())
427 init_thread_list ();
428
429 inf = current_inferior ();
430
431 inferior_appeared (inf, pid);
432
433 /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below. */
434 inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
435
436 new_tty_postfork ();
437
438 /* We have something that executes now. We'll be running through
439 the shell at this point, but the pid shouldn't change. Targets
440 supporting MT should fill this task's ptid with more data as soon
441 as they can. */
442 add_thread_silent (inferior_ptid);
443
444 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
445 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
446 initializing. */
447 if (init_trace_fun)
448 (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
449
450 /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
451 correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
452 new program. */
453 return pid;
454 }
455
456 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior. */
457
458 void
459 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
460 {
461 int pending_execs = ntraps;
462 int terminal_initted = 0;
463 ptid_t resume_ptid;
464
465 if (startup_with_shell)
466 {
467 /* One trap extra for exec'ing the shell. */
468 pending_execs++;
469 }
470
471 if (target_supports_multi_process ())
472 resume_ptid = pid_to_ptid (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
473 else
474 resume_ptid = minus_one_ptid;
475
476 /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
477 have stopped one instruction after execing the shell. Here we
478 must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
479
480 if (exec_wrapper)
481 pending_execs++;
482
483 while (1)
484 {
485 enum gdb_signal resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_0;
486 ptid_t event_ptid;
487
488 struct target_waitstatus ws;
489 memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws));
490 event_ptid = target_wait (resume_ptid, &ws, 0);
491
492 if (ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
493 /* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting. */
494 continue;
495
496 switch (ws.kind)
497 {
498 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
499 case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
500 case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
501 case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
502 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
503 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
504 /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior. */
505 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
506 break;
507
508 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
509 target_terminal_ours ();
510 target_mourn_inferior (event_ptid);
511 error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
512 gdb_signal_to_name (ws.value.sig),
513 gdb_signal_to_string (ws.value.sig));
514 return;
515
516 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
517 target_terminal_ours ();
518 target_mourn_inferior (event_ptid);
519 if (ws.value.integer)
520 error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
521 ws.value.integer);
522 else
523 error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
524 return;
525
526 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
527 /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals. */
528 xfree (ws.value.execd_pathname);
529 resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP;
530 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
531 break;
532
533 case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
534 resume_signal = ws.value.sig;
535 switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
536 break;
537 }
538
539 if (resume_signal != GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP)
540 {
541 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way. */
542 target_continue (resume_ptid, resume_signal);
543 }
544 else
545 {
546 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
547 if (!terminal_initted)
548 {
549 /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
550 set its process group. On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
551 will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
552 setpgid. */
553
554 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
555 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
556 target_terminal_init ();
557
558 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
559 target_terminal_inferior ();
560
561 terminal_initted = 1;
562 }
563
564 if (--pending_execs == 0)
565 break;
566
567 /* Just make it go on. */
568 target_continue_no_signal (resume_ptid);
569 }
570 }
571
572 /* Mark all threads non-executing. */
573 set_executing (resume_ptid, 0);
574 }
575
576 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command. */
577
578 static void
579 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args, int from_tty)
580 {
581 xfree (exec_wrapper);
582 exec_wrapper = NULL;
583 }
584
585 static void
586 show_startup_with_shell (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty,
587 struct cmd_list_element *c, const char *value)
588 {
589 fprintf_filtered (file,
590 _("Use of shell to start subprocesses is %s.\n"),
591 value);
592 }
593
594 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes. */
595 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_fork_child;
596
597 void
598 _initialize_fork_child (void)
599 {
600 add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
601 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
602 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
603 _("\
604 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
605 NULL, NULL,
606 &setlist, &showlist);
607
608 add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
609 _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),
610 &unsetlist);
611
612 add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("startup-with-shell", class_support,
613 &startup_with_shell, _("\
614 Set use of shell to start subprocesses. The default is on."), _("\
615 Show use of shell to start subprocesses."), NULL,
616 NULL,
617 show_startup_with_shell,
618 &setlist, &showlist);
619 }