1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB and GDBserver.
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20 #include "common-defs.h"
21 #include "fork-inferior.h"
22 #include "target/waitstatus.h"
23 #include "filestuff.h"
24 #include "target/target.h"
25 #include "common-inferior.h"
26 #include "common-gdbthread.h"
27 #include "signals-state-save-restore.h"
30 extern char **environ
;
32 /* Default shell file to be used if 'startup-with-shell' is set but
34 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
36 /* Build the argument vector for execv(3). */
41 /* EXEC_FILE is the file to run. ALLARGS is a string containing the
42 arguments to the program. If starting with a shell, SHELL_FILE
43 is the shell to run. Otherwise, SHELL_FILE is NULL. */
44 execv_argv (const char *exec_file
, const std::string
&allargs
,
45 const char *shell_file
);
47 /* Return a pointer to the built argv, in the type expected by
48 execv. The result is (only) valid for as long as this execv_argv
49 object is live. We return a "char **" because that's the type
50 that the execv functions expect. Note that it is guaranteed that
51 the execv functions do not modify the argv[] array nor the
52 strings to which the array point. */
55 return const_cast<char **> (&m_argv
[0]);
59 /* Disable copying. */
60 execv_argv (const execv_argv
&) = delete;
61 void operator= (const execv_argv
&) = delete;
63 /* Helper methods for constructing the argument vector. */
65 /* Used when building an argv for a straight execv call, without
66 going via the shell. */
67 void init_for_no_shell (const char *exec_file
,
68 const std::string
&allargs
);
70 /* Used when building an argv for execing a shell that execs the
72 void init_for_shell (const char *exec_file
,
73 const std::string
&allargs
,
74 const char *shell_file
);
76 /* The argument vector built. Holds non-owning pointers. Elements
77 either point to the strings passed to the execv_argv ctor, or
79 std::vector
<const char *> m_argv
;
81 /* Storage. In the no-shell case, this contains a copy of the
82 arguments passed to the ctor, split by '\0'. In the shell case,
83 this contains the quoted shell command. I.e., SHELL_COMMAND in
84 {"$SHELL" "-c", SHELL_COMMAND, NULL}. */
85 std::string m_storage
;
88 /* Create argument vector for straight call to execvp. Breaks up
89 ALLARGS into an argument vector suitable for passing to execvp and
90 stores it in M_ARGV. E.g., on "run a b c d" this routine would get
91 as input the string "a b c d", and as output it would fill in
92 M_ARGV with the four arguments "a", "b", "c", "d". Each argument
93 in M_ARGV points to a substring of a copy of ALLARGS stored in
97 execv_argv::init_for_no_shell (const char *exec_file
,
98 const std::string
&allargs
)
101 /* Save/work with a copy stored in our storage. The pointers pushed
102 to M_ARGV point directly into M_STORAGE, which is modified in
103 place with the necessary NULL terminators. This avoids N heap
104 allocations and string dups when 1 is sufficient. */
105 std::string
&args_copy
= m_storage
= allargs
;
107 m_argv
.push_back (exec_file
);
109 for (size_t cur_pos
= 0; cur_pos
< args_copy
.size ();)
111 /* Skip whitespace-like chars. */
112 std::size_t pos
= args_copy
.find_first_not_of (" \t\n", cur_pos
);
114 if (pos
!= std::string::npos
)
117 /* Find the position of the next separator. */
118 std::size_t next_sep
= args_copy
.find_first_of (" \t\n", cur_pos
);
120 if (next_sep
== std::string::npos
)
122 /* No separator found, which means this is the last
124 next_sep
= args_copy
.size ();
128 /* Replace the separator with a terminator. */
129 args_copy
[next_sep
++] = '\0';
132 m_argv
.push_back (&args_copy
[cur_pos
]);
137 /* NULL-terminate the vector. */
138 m_argv
.push_back (NULL
);
141 /* When executing a command under the given shell, return true if the
142 '!' character should be escaped when embedded in a quoted
143 command-line argument. */
146 escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (const char *shell_file
)
148 size_t shell_file_len
= strlen (shell_file
);
150 /* Bang should be escaped only in C Shells. For now, simply check
151 that the shell name ends with 'csh', which covers at least csh
152 and tcsh. This should be good enough for now. */
154 if (shell_file_len
< 3)
157 if (shell_file
[shell_file_len
- 3] == 'c'
158 && shell_file
[shell_file_len
- 2] == 's'
159 && shell_file
[shell_file_len
- 1] == 'h')
165 /* See declaration. */
167 execv_argv::execv_argv (const char *exec_file
,
168 const std::string
&allargs
,
169 const char *shell_file
)
171 if (shell_file
== NULL
)
172 init_for_no_shell (exec_file
, allargs
);
174 init_for_shell (exec_file
, allargs
, shell_file
);
177 /* See declaration. */
180 execv_argv::init_for_shell (const char *exec_file
,
181 const std::string
&allargs
,
182 const char *shell_file
)
184 const char *exec_wrapper
= get_exec_wrapper ();
186 /* We're going to call a shell. */
187 bool escape_bang
= escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file
);
189 /* We need to build a new shell command string, and make argv point
190 to it. So build it in the storage. */
191 std::string
&shell_command
= m_storage
;
193 shell_command
= "exec ";
195 /* Add any exec wrapper. That may be a program name with arguments,
196 so the user must handle quoting. */
197 if (exec_wrapper
!= NULL
)
199 shell_command
+= exec_wrapper
;
200 shell_command
+= ' ';
203 /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary. */
205 /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells. But csh
206 on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it. So we only quote it if we need
209 const char *p
= exec_file
;
227 need_to_quote
= true;
231 need_to_quote
= false;
242 shell_command
+= '\'';
243 for (p
= exec_file
; *p
!= '\0'; ++p
)
246 shell_command
+= "'\\''";
247 else if (*p
== '!' && escape_bang
)
248 shell_command
+= "\\!";
252 shell_command
+= '\'';
255 shell_command
+= exec_file
;
257 shell_command
+= ' ' + allargs
;
259 /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the shell.
260 "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command to
261 execute, and this command is "exec <target-program> <args>". */
263 m_argv
.push_back (shell_file
);
264 m_argv
.push_back ("-c");
265 m_argv
.push_back (shell_command
.c_str ());
266 m_argv
.push_back (NULL
);
269 /* Return the shell that must be used to startup the inferior. The
270 first attempt is the environment variable SHELL; if it is not set,
271 then we default to SHELL_FILE. */
276 static const char *ret
;
278 ret
= getenv ("SHELL");
285 /* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
288 fork_inferior (const char *exec_file_arg
, const std::string
&allargs
,
289 char **env
, void (*traceme_fun
) (),
290 void (*init_trace_fun
) (int), void (*pre_trace_fun
) (),
291 const char *shell_file_arg
,
292 void (*exec_fun
)(const char *file
, char * const *argv
,
296 /* Set debug_fork then attach to the child while it sleeps, to debug. */
298 const char *shell_file
;
299 const char *exec_file
;
304 /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
305 -- with a good, common error message if none is specified. */
306 if (exec_file_arg
== NULL
)
307 exec_file
= get_exec_file (1);
309 exec_file
= exec_file_arg
;
311 /* 'startup_with_shell' is declared in inferior.h and bound to the
312 "set startup-with-shell" option. If 0, we'll just do a
313 fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what shell. */
314 if (startup_with_shell
)
316 shell_file
= shell_file_arg
;
318 /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under. */
319 if (shell_file
== NULL
)
320 shell_file
= get_startup_shell ();
322 gdb_assert (shell_file
!= NULL
);
327 /* Build the argument vector. */
328 execv_argv
child_argv (exec_file
, allargs
, shell_file
);
330 /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
331 replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
333 save_our_env
= environ
;
335 /* Perform any necessary actions regarding to TTY before the
337 prefork_hook (allargs
.c_str ());
339 /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
340 output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
341 the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork. */
342 gdb_flush_out_err ();
344 /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
345 happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
347 if (pre_trace_fun
!= NULL
)
350 /* Create the child process. Since the child process is going to
351 exec(3) shortly afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
352 calling vfork(2). However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
353 likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
354 work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3). This is known
355 to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
356 between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
357 exec(2). However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
358 state, this doesn't work. Also note that the vfork(2) call might
359 actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
360 ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms. */
361 #if !(defined(__UCLIBC__) && defined(HAS_NOMMU))
362 if (pre_trace_fun
|| debug_fork
)
369 perror_with_name (("vfork"));
373 /* Close all file descriptors except those that gdb inherited
374 (usually 0/1/2), so they don't leak to the inferior. Note
375 that this closes the file descriptors of all secondary
382 /* Execute any necessary post-fork actions before we exec. */
383 postfork_child_hook ();
385 /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
386 a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
387 with signals here. See comments in
388 initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
391 /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
394 /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
395 by the original gdb process (the "parent"). Since processes
396 (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
397 gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
398 controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
399 undebuggable. Indeed, you probably got an error message
400 saying "not parent". Sorry; you'll have to use print
403 restore_original_signals_state ();
405 /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
406 for our child in the global variable. If we've vforked, this
407 clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
408 in the parent. By the way, yes we do need to look down the
409 path to find $SHELL. Rich Pixley says so, and I agree. */
412 char **argv
= child_argv
.argv ();
414 if (exec_fun
!= NULL
)
415 (*exec_fun
) (argv
[0], &argv
[0], env
);
417 execvp (argv
[0], &argv
[0]);
419 /* If we get here, it's an error. */
421 warning ("Cannot exec %s", argv
[0]);
423 for (i
= 1; argv
[i
] != NULL
; i
++)
424 warning (" %s", argv
[i
]);
426 warning ("Error: %s\n", safe_strerror (save_errno
));
431 /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */
432 environ
= save_our_env
;
436 /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
437 initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
440 (*init_trace_fun
) (pid
);
442 /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
443 correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
448 /* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
451 startup_inferior (pid_t pid
, int ntraps
,
452 struct target_waitstatus
*last_waitstatus
,
455 int pending_execs
= ntraps
;
456 int terminal_initted
= 0;
459 if (startup_with_shell
)
461 /* One trap extra for exec'ing the shell. */
465 if (target_supports_multi_process ())
466 resume_ptid
= pid_to_ptid (pid
);
468 resume_ptid
= minus_one_ptid
;
470 /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
471 have stopped one instruction after execing the shell. Here we
472 must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */
473 if (get_exec_wrapper () != NULL
)
478 enum gdb_signal resume_signal
= GDB_SIGNAL_0
;
481 struct target_waitstatus ws
;
482 memset (&ws
, 0, sizeof (ws
));
483 event_ptid
= target_wait (resume_ptid
, &ws
, 0);
485 if (last_waitstatus
!= NULL
)
486 *last_waitstatus
= ws
;
487 if (last_ptid
!= NULL
)
488 *last_ptid
= event_ptid
;
490 if (ws
.kind
== TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE
)
491 /* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting. */
496 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS
:
497 case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED
:
498 case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED
:
499 case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED
:
500 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY
:
501 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN
:
502 /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior. */
503 switch_to_thread (event_ptid
);
506 case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED
:
507 target_terminal_ours ();
508 target_mourn_inferior (event_ptid
);
509 error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
510 gdb_signal_to_name (ws
.value
.sig
),
511 gdb_signal_to_string (ws
.value
.sig
));
514 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED
:
515 target_terminal_ours ();
516 target_mourn_inferior (event_ptid
);
517 if (ws
.value
.integer
)
518 error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
521 error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
524 case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD
:
525 /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals. */
526 xfree (ws
.value
.execd_pathname
);
527 resume_signal
= GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP
;
528 switch_to_thread (event_ptid
);
531 case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
:
532 resume_signal
= ws
.value
.sig
;
533 switch_to_thread (event_ptid
);
537 if (resume_signal
!= GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP
)
539 /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way. */
540 target_continue (resume_ptid
, resume_signal
);
544 /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec. */
545 if (!terminal_initted
)
547 /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
548 set its process group. On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
549 will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
552 /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
553 based on what modes we are starting it with. */
554 target_terminal_init ();
556 /* Install inferior's terminal modes. */
557 target_terminal_inferior ();
559 terminal_initted
= 1;
562 if (--pending_execs
== 0)
565 /* Just make it go on. */
566 target_continue_no_signal (resume_ptid
);
573 /* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
576 trace_start_error (const char *fmt
, ...)
581 warning ("Could not trace the inferior process.\nError: ");
585 gdb_flush_out_err ();
589 /* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
592 trace_start_error_with_name (const char *string
)
594 trace_start_error ("%s: %s", string
, safe_strerror (errno
));