xref: /dragonfly/contrib/gdb-7/gdb/fork-child.c (revision 678e8cc6)
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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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, *tmp;
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       tmp = strchr (cp, ' ');
72       if (tmp == NULL)
73 	tmp = strchr (cp, '\t');
74       if (tmp == NULL)
75 	tmp = strchr (cp, '\n');
76 
77       /* No separators => end of string => break.  */
78       if (tmp == NULL)
79 	break;
80       cp = tmp;
81 
82       /* Replace the separator with a terminator.  */
83       *cp++ = '\0';
84     }
85 
86   /* Null-terminate the vector.  */
87   *argv = NULL;
88 }
89 
90 /* When executing a command under the given shell, return non-zero if
91    the '!' character should be escaped when embedded in a quoted
92    command-line argument.  */
93 
94 static int
95 escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (const char *shell_file)
96 {
97   const int shell_file_len = strlen (shell_file);
98 
99   /* Bang should be escaped only in C Shells.  For now, simply check
100      that the shell name ends with 'csh', which covers at least csh
101      and tcsh.  This should be good enough for now.  */
102 
103   if (shell_file_len < 3)
104     return 0;
105 
106   if (shell_file[shell_file_len - 3] == 'c'
107       && shell_file[shell_file_len - 2] == 's'
108       && shell_file[shell_file_len - 1] == 'h')
109     return 1;
110 
111   return 0;
112 }
113 
114 /* Start an inferior Unix child process and sets inferior_ptid to its
115    pid.  EXEC_FILE is the file to run.  ALLARGS is a string containing
116    the arguments to the program.  ENV is the environment vector to
117    pass.  SHELL_FILE is the shell file, or NULL if we should pick
118    one.  */
119 
120 /* This function is NOT reentrant.  Some of the variables have been
121    made static to ensure that they survive the vfork call.  */
122 
123 int
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 {
128   int pid;
129   char *shell_command;
130   static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
131   int len;
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;
139   char **save_our_env;
140   int shell = 0;
141   static char **argv;
142   const char *inferior_io_terminal = get_inferior_io_terminal ();
143   struct inferior *inf;
144 
145   /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
146      -- with a good, common error message if none is specified.  */
147   exec_file = exec_file_arg;
148   if (exec_file == 0)
149     exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
150 
151   /* STARTUP_WITH_SHELL is defined in inferior.h.  If 0,e we'll just
152     do a fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what
153     shell.  */
154   shell_file = shell_file_arg;
155   if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
156     {
157       /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under.  */
158       if (shell_file == NULL)
159 	shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
160       if (shell_file == NULL)
161 	shell_file = default_shell_file;
162       shell = 1;
163     }
164 
165   /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
166      fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
167      based on every character being '.  */
168   len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
169   if (exec_wrapper)
170     len += strlen (exec_wrapper) + 1;
171 
172   shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
173   shell_command[0] = '\0';
174 
175   if (!shell)
176     {
177       /* We're going to call execvp.  Create argument vector.
178 	 Calculate an upper bound on the length of the vector by
179 	 assuming that every other character is a separate
180 	 argument.  */
181       int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
182 
183       argv = (char **) xmalloc (argc * sizeof (*argv));
184       argv[0] = exec_file;
185       breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
186     }
187   else
188     {
189       /* We're going to call a shell.  */
190 
191       char *p;
192       int need_to_quote;
193       const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
194 
195       strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
196 
197       /* Add any exec wrapper.  That may be a program name with arguments, so
198 	 the user must handle quoting.  */
199       if (exec_wrapper)
200 	{
201 	  strcat (shell_command, exec_wrapper);
202 	  strcat (shell_command, " ");
203 	}
204 
205       /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary.  */
206 
207       /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells.  But
208          csh on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it.  So we only quote it if
209          we need to.  */
210       p = exec_file;
211       while (1)
212 	{
213 	  switch (*p)
214 	    {
215 	    case '\'':
216 	    case '!':
217 	    case '"':
218 	    case '(':
219 	    case ')':
220 	    case '$':
221 	    case '&':
222 	    case ';':
223 	    case '<':
224 	    case '>':
225 	    case ' ':
226 	    case '\n':
227 	    case '\t':
228 	      need_to_quote = 1;
229 	      goto end_scan;
230 
231 	    case '\0':
232 	      need_to_quote = 0;
233 	      goto end_scan;
234 
235 	    default:
236 	      break;
237 	    }
238 	  ++p;
239 	}
240     end_scan:
241       if (need_to_quote)
242 	{
243 	  strcat (shell_command, "'");
244 	  for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
245 	    {
246 	      if (*p == '\'')
247 		strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
248 	      else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
249 		strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
250 	      else
251 		strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
252 	    }
253 	  strcat (shell_command, "'");
254 	}
255       else
256 	strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
257 
258       strcat (shell_command, " ");
259       strcat (shell_command, allargs);
260     }
261 
262   /* On some systems an exec will fail if the executable is open.  */
263   close_exec_file ();
264 
265   /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
266      replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
267      restore it.  */
268   save_our_env = environ;
269 
270   /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
271      it will just record the information for later.  */
272   new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
273 
274   /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
275      output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
276      the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork.  */
277   gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
278   gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
279 
280   /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
281      happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
282      now...  */
283   if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
284     (*pre_trace_fun) ();
285 
286   /* Create the child process.  Since the child process is going to
287      exec(3) shortly afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
288      calling vfork(2).  However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
289      likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
290      work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3).  This is known
291      to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
292      between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
293      exec(2).  However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
294      state, this doesn't work.  Also note that the vfork(2) call might
295      actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
296      ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms.  */
297   if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
298     pid = fork ();
299   else
300     pid = vfork ();
301 
302   if (pid < 0)
303     perror_with_name (("vfork"));
304 
305   if (pid == 0)
306     {
307       if (debug_fork)
308 	sleep (debug_fork);
309 
310       /* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
311          It will also place the inferior in a separate process group.  */
312       if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
313 	{
314 	  /* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
315 	     in a separate process group.  */
316 	  debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
317 	  if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
318 	    perror (_("setpgrp failed in child"));
319 	}
320 
321       /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
322          earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
323          specified).  */
324       new_tty ();
325 
326       /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
327          a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
328          with signals here.  See comments in
329          initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
330          for the inferior.  */
331 
332       /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!"  */
333       (*traceme_fun) ();
334 
335       /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
336         by the original gdb process (the "parent").  Since processes
337         (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
338         gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
339         controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
340         undebuggable.  Indeed, you probably got an error message
341         saying "not parent".  Sorry; you'll have to use print
342         statements!  */
343 
344       /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
345          for our child in the global variable.  If we've vforked, this
346          clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
347          in the parent.  By the way, yes we do need to look down the
348          path to find $SHELL.  Rich Pixley says so, and I agree.  */
349       environ = env;
350 
351       /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
352 	 shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
353 	 to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
354 	 <args>".  */
355       if (shell)
356 	{
357 	  execlp (shell_file, shell_file, "-c", shell_command, (char *) 0);
358 
359 	  /* If we get here, it's an error.  */
360 	  fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s: %s.\n", shell_file,
361 			      safe_strerror (errno));
362 	  gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
363 	  _exit (0177);
364 	}
365       else
366 	{
367 	  /* Otherwise, we directly exec the target program with
368 	     execvp.  */
369 	  int i;
370 
371 	  execvp (exec_file, argv);
372 
373 	  /* If we get here, it's an error.  */
374 	  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 	  gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
387 	  _exit (0177);
388 	}
389     }
390 
391   /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it.  */
392   environ = save_our_env;
393 
394   if (!have_inferiors ())
395     init_thread_list ();
396 
397   inf = current_inferior ();
398 
399   inferior_appeared (inf, pid);
400 
401   /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below.  */
402   inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
403 
404   new_tty_postfork ();
405 
406   /* We have something that executes now.  We'll be running through
407      the shell at this point, but the pid shouldn't change.  Targets
408      supporting MT should fill this task's ptid with more data as soon
409      as they can.  */
410   add_thread_silent (inferior_ptid);
411 
412   /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
413      initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
414      initializing.  */
415   if (init_trace_fun)
416     (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
417 
418   /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
419      correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
420      new program.  */
421   return pid;
422 }
423 
424 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior.  */
425 
426 void
427 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
428 {
429   int pending_execs = ntraps;
430   int terminal_initted = 0;
431   ptid_t resume_ptid;
432 
433   if (target_supports_multi_process ())
434     resume_ptid = pid_to_ptid (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
435   else
436     resume_ptid = minus_one_ptid;
437 
438   /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
439      have stopped one instruction after execing the shell.  Here we
440      must get it up to actual execution of the real program.  */
441 
442   if (exec_wrapper)
443     pending_execs++;
444 
445   while (1)
446     {
447       enum target_signal resume_signal = TARGET_SIGNAL_0;
448       ptid_t event_ptid;
449 
450       struct target_waitstatus ws;
451       memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws));
452       event_ptid = target_wait (resume_ptid, &ws, 0);
453 
454       if (ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
455 	/* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting.  */
456 	continue;
457 
458       switch (ws.kind)
459 	{
460 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
461 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
462 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
463 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
464 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
465 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
466 	    /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior.  */
467 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
468 	    break;
469 
470 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
471 	    target_terminal_ours ();
472 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
473 	    error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
474 		   target_signal_to_name (ws.value.sig),
475 		   target_signal_to_string (ws.value.sig));
476 	    return;
477 
478 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
479 	    target_terminal_ours ();
480 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
481 	    if (ws.value.integer)
482 	      error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
483 		     ws.value.integer);
484 	    else
485 	      error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
486 	    return;
487 
488 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
489 	    /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals.  */
490 	    xfree (ws.value.execd_pathname);
491 	    resume_signal = TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP;
492 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
493 	    break;
494 
495 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
496 	    resume_signal = ws.value.sig;
497 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
498 	    break;
499 	}
500 
501       if (resume_signal != TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP)
502 	{
503 	  /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way.  */
504 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, resume_signal);
505 	}
506       else
507 	{
508 	  /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec.  */
509 	  if (!terminal_initted)
510 	    {
511 	      /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
512 	         set its process group.  On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
513 	         will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
514 	         setpgid.  */
515 
516 	      /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
517 	         based on what modes we are starting it with.  */
518 	      target_terminal_init ();
519 
520 	      /* Install inferior's terminal modes.  */
521 	      target_terminal_inferior ();
522 
523 	      terminal_initted = 1;
524 	    }
525 
526 	  if (--pending_execs == 0)
527 	    break;
528 
529 	  /* Just make it go on.  */
530 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, TARGET_SIGNAL_0);
531 	}
532     }
533 
534   /* Mark all threads non-executing.  */
535   set_executing (resume_ptid, 0);
536 }
537 
538 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command.  */
539 
540 static void
541 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args, int from_tty)
542 {
543   xfree (exec_wrapper);
544   exec_wrapper = NULL;
545 }
546 
547 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes.  */
548 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_fork_child;
549 
550 void
551 _initialize_fork_child (void)
552 {
553   add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
554 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
555 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
556 			    _("\
557 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
558 			    NULL, NULL,
559 			    &setlist, &showlist);
560 
561   add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
562            _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),
563            &unsetlist);
564 }
565