xref: /dragonfly/contrib/gdb-7/gdb/fork-child.c (revision 10f4bf95)
1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
2 
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6 
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8 
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10 
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15 
16    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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20 
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22    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
23 
24 #include "defs.h"
25 #include "gdb_string.h"
26 #include "inferior.h"
27 #include "terminal.h"
28 #include "target.h"
29 #include "gdb_wait.h"
30 #include "gdb_vfork.h"
31 #include "gdbcore.h"
32 #include "terminal.h"
33 #include "gdbthread.h"
34 #include "command.h" /* for dont_repeat () */
35 #include "gdbcmd.h"
36 #include "solib.h"
37 
38 #include <signal.h>
39 
40 /* This just gets used as a default if we can't find SHELL.  */
41 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
42 
43 extern char **environ;
44 
45 static char *exec_wrapper;
46 
47 /* Break up SCRATCH into an argument vector suitable for passing to
48    execvp and store it in ARGV.  E.g., on "run a b c d" this routine
49    would get as input the string "a b c d", and as output it would
50    fill in ARGV with the four arguments "a", "b", "c", "d".  */
51 
52 static void
53 breakup_args (char *scratch, char **argv)
54 {
55   char *cp = scratch;
56 
57   for (;;)
58     {
59       /* Scan past leading separators */
60       while (*cp == ' ' || *cp == '\t' || *cp == '\n')
61 	cp++;
62 
63       /* Break if at end of string.  */
64       if (*cp == '\0')
65 	break;
66 
67       /* Take an arg.  */
68       *argv++ = cp;
69 
70       /* Scan for next arg separator.  */
71       cp = strchr (cp, ' ');
72       if (cp == NULL)
73 	cp = strchr (cp, '\t');
74       if (cp == NULL)
75 	cp = strchr (cp, '\n');
76 
77       /* No separators => end of string => break.  */
78       if (cp == NULL)
79 	break;
80 
81       /* Replace the separator with a terminator.  */
82       *cp++ = '\0';
83     }
84 
85   /* Null-terminate the vector.  */
86   *argv = NULL;
87 }
88 
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.  */
92 
93 static int
94 escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (const char *shell_file)
95 {
96   const int shell_file_len = strlen (shell_file);
97 
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.  */
101 
102   if (shell_file_len < 3)
103     return 0;
104 
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')
108     return 1;
109 
110   return 0;
111 }
112 
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.  */
118 
119 /* This function is NOT reentrant.  Some of the variables have been
120    made static to ensure that they survive the vfork call.  */
121 
122 int
123 fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
124 	       void (*traceme_fun) (void), void (*init_trace_fun) (int),
125 	       void (*pre_trace_fun) (void), char *shell_file_arg)
126 {
127   int pid;
128   char *shell_command;
129   static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
130   int len;
131   /* Set debug_fork then attach to the child while it sleeps, to debug. */
132   static int debug_fork = 0;
133   /* This is set to the result of setpgrp, which if vforked, will be visible
134      to you in the parent process.  It's only used by humans for debugging.  */
135   static int debug_setpgrp = 657473;
136   static char *shell_file;
137   static char *exec_file;
138   char **save_our_env;
139   int shell = 0;
140   static char **argv;
141   const char *inferior_io_terminal = get_inferior_io_terminal ();
142   struct inferior *inf;
143 
144   /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
145      -- with a good, common error message if none is specified.  */
146   exec_file = exec_file_arg;
147   if (exec_file == 0)
148     exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
149 
150   /* STARTUP_WITH_SHELL is defined in inferior.h.  If 0,e we'll just
151     do a fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what
152     shell.  */
153   shell_file = shell_file_arg;
154   if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
155     {
156       /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under.  */
157       if (shell_file == NULL)
158 	shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
159       if (shell_file == NULL)
160 	shell_file = default_shell_file;
161       shell = 1;
162     }
163 
164   /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
165      fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
166      based on every character being '.  */
167   len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
168   if (exec_wrapper)
169     len += strlen (exec_wrapper) + 1;
170 
171   shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
172   shell_command[0] = '\0';
173 
174   if (!shell)
175     {
176       /* We're going to call execvp.  Create argument vector.
177 	 Calculate an upper bound on the length of the vector by
178 	 assuming that every other character is a separate
179 	 argument.  */
180       int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
181 
182       argv = (char **) xmalloc (argc * sizeof (*argv));
183       argv[0] = exec_file;
184       breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
185     }
186   else
187     {
188       /* We're going to call a shell.  */
189 
190       char *p;
191       int need_to_quote;
192       const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
193 
194       strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
195 
196       /* Add any exec wrapper.  That may be a program name with arguments, so
197 	 the user must handle quoting.  */
198       if (exec_wrapper)
199 	{
200 	  strcat (shell_command, exec_wrapper);
201 	  strcat (shell_command, " ");
202 	}
203 
204       /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary.  */
205 
206       /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells.  But
207          csh on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it.  So we only quote it if
208          we need to.  */
209       p = exec_file;
210       while (1)
211 	{
212 	  switch (*p)
213 	    {
214 	    case '\'':
215 	    case '!':
216 	    case '"':
217 	    case '(':
218 	    case ')':
219 	    case '$':
220 	    case '&':
221 	    case ';':
222 	    case '<':
223 	    case '>':
224 	    case ' ':
225 	    case '\n':
226 	    case '\t':
227 	      need_to_quote = 1;
228 	      goto end_scan;
229 
230 	    case '\0':
231 	      need_to_quote = 0;
232 	      goto end_scan;
233 
234 	    default:
235 	      break;
236 	    }
237 	  ++p;
238 	}
239     end_scan:
240       if (need_to_quote)
241 	{
242 	  strcat (shell_command, "'");
243 	  for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
244 	    {
245 	      if (*p == '\'')
246 		strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
247 	      else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
248 		strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
249 	      else
250 		strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
251 	    }
252 	  strcat (shell_command, "'");
253 	}
254       else
255 	strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
256 
257       strcat (shell_command, " ");
258       strcat (shell_command, allargs);
259     }
260 
261   /* On some systems an exec will fail if the executable is open.  */
262   close_exec_file ();
263 
264   /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
265      replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
266      restore it.  */
267   save_our_env = environ;
268 
269   /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
270      it will just record the information for later.  */
271   new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
272 
273   /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
274      output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
275      the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork. */
276   gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
277   gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
278 
279   /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
280      happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
281      now...  */
282   if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
283     (*pre_trace_fun) ();
284 
285   /* Create the child process.  Since the child process is going to
286      exec(3) shortly afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
287      calling vfork(2).  However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
288      likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
289      work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3).  This is known
290      to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
291      between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
292      exec(2).  However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
293      state, this doesn't work.  Also note that the vfork(2) call might
294      actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
295      ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms.  */
296   if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
297     pid = fork ();
298   else
299     pid = vfork ();
300 
301   if (pid < 0)
302     perror_with_name (("vfork"));
303 
304   if (pid == 0)
305     {
306       if (debug_fork)
307 	sleep (debug_fork);
308 
309       /* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
310          It will also place the inferior in a separate process group.  */
311       if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
312 	{
313 	  /* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
314 	     in a separate process group.  */
315 	  debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
316 	  if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
317 	    perror ("setpgrp failed in child");
318 	}
319 
320       /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
321          earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
322          specified).  */
323       new_tty ();
324 
325       /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
326          a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
327          with signals here.  See comments in
328          initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
329          for the inferior.  */
330 
331       /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!" */
332       (*traceme_fun) ();
333 
334       /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
335         by the original gdb process (the "parent").  Since processes
336         (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
337         gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
338         controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
339         undebuggable.  Indeed, you probably got an error message
340         saying "not parent".  Sorry; you'll have to use print
341         statements!  */
342 
343       /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
344          for our child in the global variable.  If we've vforked, this
345          clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
346          in the parent.  By the way, yes we do need to look down the
347          path to find $SHELL.  Rich Pixley says so, and I agree.  */
348       environ = env;
349 
350       /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
351 	 shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
352 	 to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
353 	 <args>".  */
354       if (shell)
355 	{
356 	  execlp (shell_file, shell_file, "-c", shell_command, (char *) 0);
357 
358 	  /* If we get here, it's an error.  */
359 	  fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s: %s.\n", shell_file,
360 			      safe_strerror (errno));
361 	  gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
362 	  _exit (0177);
363 	}
364       else
365 	{
366 	  /* Otherwise, we directly exec the target program with
367 	     execvp.  */
368 	  int i;
369 	  char *errstring;
370 
371 	  execvp (exec_file, argv);
372 
373 	  /* If we get here, it's an error.  */
374 	  errstring = safe_strerror (errno);
375 	  fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s ", exec_file);
376 
377 	  i = 1;
378 	  while (argv[i] != NULL)
379 	    {
380 	      if (i != 1)
381 		fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " ");
382 	      fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "%s", argv[i]);
383 	      i++;
384 	    }
385 	  fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
386 #if 0
387 	  /* This extra info seems to be useless.  */
388 	  fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Got error %s.\n", errstring);
389 #endif
390 	  gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
391 	  _exit (0177);
392 	}
393     }
394 
395   /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it.  */
396   environ = save_our_env;
397 
398   if (!have_inferiors ())
399     init_thread_list ();
400 
401   inf = current_inferior ();
402 
403   inferior_appeared (inf, pid);
404 
405   /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below.  */
406   inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
407 
408   new_tty_postfork ();
409 
410   /* We have something that executes now.  We'll be running through
411      the shell at this point, but the pid shouldn't change.  Targets
412      supporting MT should fill this task's ptid with more data as soon
413      as they can.  */
414   add_thread_silent (inferior_ptid);
415 
416   /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
417      initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
418      initializing.  */
419   if (init_trace_fun)
420     (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
421 
422   /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
423      correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
424      new program.  */
425   return pid;
426 }
427 
428 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior.  */
429 
430 void
431 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
432 {
433   int pending_execs = ntraps;
434   int terminal_initted = 0;
435   ptid_t resume_ptid;
436 
437   if (target_supports_multi_process ())
438     resume_ptid = pid_to_ptid (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
439   else
440     resume_ptid = minus_one_ptid;
441 
442   /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
443      have stopped one instruction after execing the shell.  Here we
444      must get it up to actual execution of the real program.  */
445 
446   if (exec_wrapper)
447     pending_execs++;
448 
449   while (1)
450     {
451       int resume_signal = TARGET_SIGNAL_0;
452       ptid_t event_ptid;
453 
454       struct target_waitstatus ws;
455       memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws));
456       event_ptid = target_wait (resume_ptid, &ws, 0);
457 
458       if (ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
459 	/* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting.  */
460 	continue;
461 
462       switch (ws.kind)
463 	{
464 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
465 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
466 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
467 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
468 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
469 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
470 	    /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior.  */
471 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
472 	    break;
473 
474 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
475 	    target_terminal_ours ();
476 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
477 	    error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
478 		   target_signal_to_name (ws.value.sig),
479 		   target_signal_to_string (ws.value.sig));
480 	    return;
481 
482 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
483 	    target_terminal_ours ();
484 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
485 	    if (ws.value.integer)
486 	      error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
487 		     ws.value.integer);
488 	    else
489 	      error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
490 	    return;
491 
492 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
493 	    /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals.  */
494 	    xfree (ws.value.execd_pathname);
495 	    resume_signal = TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP;
496 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
497 	    break;
498 
499 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
500 	    resume_signal = ws.value.sig;
501 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
502 	    break;
503 	}
504 
505       if (resume_signal != TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP)
506 	{
507 	  /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way.  */
508 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, resume_signal);
509 	}
510       else
511 	{
512 	  /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec.  */
513 	  if (!terminal_initted)
514 	    {
515 	      /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
516 	         set its process group.  On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
517 	         will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
518 	         setpgid.  */
519 
520 	      /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
521 	         based on what modes we are starting it with.  */
522 	      target_terminal_init ();
523 
524 	      /* Install inferior's terminal modes.  */
525 	      target_terminal_inferior ();
526 
527 	      terminal_initted = 1;
528 	    }
529 
530 	  if (--pending_execs == 0)
531 	    break;
532 
533 	  /* Just make it go on.  */
534 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, TARGET_SIGNAL_0);
535 	}
536     }
537 
538   /* Mark all threads non-executing.  */
539   set_executing (resume_ptid, 0);
540 }
541 
542 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command.  */
543 
544 static void
545 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args, int from_tty)
546 {
547   xfree (exec_wrapper);
548   exec_wrapper = NULL;
549 }
550 
551 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes.  */
552 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_fork_child;
553 
554 void
555 _initialize_fork_child (void)
556 {
557   add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
558 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
559 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
560 			    _("\
561 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
562 			    NULL, NULL,
563 			    &setlist, &showlist);
564 
565   add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
566            _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),
567            &unsetlist);
568 }
569