xref: /dragonfly/contrib/gdb-7/gdb/fork-child.c (revision 9348a738)
1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
2 
3    Copyright (C) 1990-2013 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 "gdb_string.h"
24 #include "inferior.h"
25 #include "terminal.h"
26 #include "target.h"
27 #include "gdb_wait.h"
28 #include "gdb_vfork.h"
29 #include "gdbcore.h"
30 #include "terminal.h"
31 #include "gdbthread.h"
32 #include "command.h" /* for dont_repeat () */
33 #include "gdbcmd.h"
34 #include "solib.h"
35 
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 /* Start an inferior Unix child process and sets inferior_ptid to its
113    pid.  EXEC_FILE is the file to run.  ALLARGS is a string containing
114    the arguments to the program.  ENV is the environment vector to
115    pass.  SHELL_FILE is the shell file, or NULL if we should pick
116    one.  EXEC_FUN is the exec(2) function to use, or NULL for the default
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                void (*exec_fun)(const char *file, char * const *argv,
127                                 char * const *env))
128 {
129   int pid;
130   static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
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   int i;
144   int save_errno;
145 
146   /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
147      -- with a good, common error message if none is specified.  */
148   exec_file = exec_file_arg;
149   if (exec_file == 0)
150     exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
151 
152   /* STARTUP_WITH_SHELL is defined in inferior.h.  If 0,e we'll just
153     do a fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what
154     shell.  */
155   shell_file = shell_file_arg;
156   if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
157     {
158       /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under.  */
159       if (shell_file == NULL)
160 	shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
161       if (shell_file == NULL)
162 	shell_file = default_shell_file;
163       shell = 1;
164     }
165 
166   if (!shell)
167     {
168       /* We're going to call execvp.  Create argument vector.
169 	 Calculate an upper bound on the length of the vector by
170 	 assuming that every other character is a separate
171 	 argument.  */
172       int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
173 
174       argv = (char **) alloca (argc * sizeof (*argv));
175       argv[0] = exec_file;
176       breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
177     }
178   else
179     {
180       /* We're going to call a shell.  */
181       char *shell_command;
182       int len;
183       char *p;
184       int need_to_quote;
185       const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
186 
187       /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
188          fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
189          based on every character being '.  */
190       len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
191       if (exec_wrapper)
192         len += strlen (exec_wrapper) + 1;
193 
194       shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
195       shell_command[0] = '\0';
196 
197       strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
198 
199       /* Add any exec wrapper.  That may be a program name with arguments, so
200 	 the user must handle quoting.  */
201       if (exec_wrapper)
202 	{
203 	  strcat (shell_command, exec_wrapper);
204 	  strcat (shell_command, " ");
205 	}
206 
207       /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary.  */
208 
209       /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells.  But
210          csh on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it.  So we only quote it if
211          we need to.  */
212       p = exec_file;
213       while (1)
214 	{
215 	  switch (*p)
216 	    {
217 	    case '\'':
218 	    case '!':
219 	    case '"':
220 	    case '(':
221 	    case ')':
222 	    case '$':
223 	    case '&':
224 	    case ';':
225 	    case '<':
226 	    case '>':
227 	    case ' ':
228 	    case '\n':
229 	    case '\t':
230 	      need_to_quote = 1;
231 	      goto end_scan;
232 
233 	    case '\0':
234 	      need_to_quote = 0;
235 	      goto end_scan;
236 
237 	    default:
238 	      break;
239 	    }
240 	  ++p;
241 	}
242     end_scan:
243       if (need_to_quote)
244 	{
245 	  strcat (shell_command, "'");
246 	  for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
247 	    {
248 	      if (*p == '\'')
249 		strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
250 	      else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
251 		strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
252 	      else
253 		strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
254 	    }
255 	  strcat (shell_command, "'");
256 	}
257       else
258 	strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
259 
260       strcat (shell_command, " ");
261       strcat (shell_command, allargs);
262 
263       /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
264 	 shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
265 	 to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
266 	 <args>".  */
267       argv = (char **) alloca (4 * sizeof (char *));
268       argv[0] = shell_file;
269       argv[1] = "-c";
270       argv[2] = shell_command;
271       argv[3] = (char *) 0;
272     }
273 
274   /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
275      replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
276      restore it.  */
277   save_our_env = environ;
278 
279   /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
280      it will just record the information for later.  */
281   new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
282 
283   /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
284      output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
285      the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork.  */
286   gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
287   gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
288 
289   /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
290      happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
291      now...  */
292   if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
293     (*pre_trace_fun) ();
294 
295   /* Create the child process.  Since the child process is going to
296      exec(3) shortly afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
297      calling vfork(2).  However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
298      likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
299      work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3).  This is known
300      to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
301      between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
302      exec(2).  However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
303      state, this doesn't work.  Also note that the vfork(2) call might
304      actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
305      ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms.  */
306   if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
307     pid = fork ();
308   else
309     pid = vfork ();
310 
311   if (pid < 0)
312     perror_with_name (("vfork"));
313 
314   if (pid == 0)
315     {
316       if (debug_fork)
317 	sleep (debug_fork);
318 
319       /* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
320          It will also place the inferior in a separate process group.  */
321       if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
322 	{
323 	  /* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
324 	     in a separate process group.  */
325 	  debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
326 	  if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
327 	    perror (_("setpgrp failed in child"));
328 	}
329 
330       /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
331          earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
332          specified).  */
333       new_tty ();
334 
335       /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
336          a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
337          with signals here.  See comments in
338          initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
339          for the inferior.  */
340 
341       /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!"  */
342       (*traceme_fun) ();
343 
344       /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
345         by the original gdb process (the "parent").  Since processes
346         (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
347         gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
348         controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
349         undebuggable.  Indeed, you probably got an error message
350         saying "not parent".  Sorry; you'll have to use print
351         statements!  */
352 
353       /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
354          for our child in the global variable.  If we've vforked, this
355          clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
356          in the parent.  By the way, yes we do need to look down the
357          path to find $SHELL.  Rich Pixley says so, and I agree.  */
358       environ = env;
359 
360       if (exec_fun != NULL)
361         (*exec_fun) (argv[0], argv, env);
362       else
363         execvp (argv[0], argv);
364 
365       /* If we get here, it's an error.  */
366       save_errno = errno;
367       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s", exec_file);
368       for (i = 1; argv[i] != NULL; i++)
369 	fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " %s", argv[i]);
370       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
371       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Error: %s\n",
372 			  safe_strerror (save_errno));
373       gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
374       _exit (0177);
375     }
376 
377   /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it.  */
378   environ = save_our_env;
379 
380   if (!have_inferiors ())
381     init_thread_list ();
382 
383   inf = current_inferior ();
384 
385   inferior_appeared (inf, pid);
386 
387   /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below.  */
388   inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
389 
390   new_tty_postfork ();
391 
392   /* We have something that executes now.  We'll be running through
393      the shell at this point, but the pid shouldn't change.  Targets
394      supporting MT should fill this task's ptid with more data as soon
395      as they can.  */
396   add_thread_silent (inferior_ptid);
397 
398   /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
399      initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
400      initializing.  */
401   if (init_trace_fun)
402     (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
403 
404   /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
405      correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
406      new program.  */
407   return pid;
408 }
409 
410 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior.  */
411 
412 void
413 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
414 {
415   int pending_execs = ntraps;
416   int terminal_initted = 0;
417   ptid_t resume_ptid;
418 
419   if (target_supports_multi_process ())
420     resume_ptid = pid_to_ptid (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
421   else
422     resume_ptid = minus_one_ptid;
423 
424   /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
425      have stopped one instruction after execing the shell.  Here we
426      must get it up to actual execution of the real program.  */
427 
428   if (exec_wrapper)
429     pending_execs++;
430 
431   while (1)
432     {
433       enum gdb_signal resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_0;
434       ptid_t event_ptid;
435 
436       struct target_waitstatus ws;
437       memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws));
438       event_ptid = target_wait (resume_ptid, &ws, 0);
439 
440       if (ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
441 	/* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting.  */
442 	continue;
443 
444       switch (ws.kind)
445 	{
446 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
447 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
448 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
449 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
450 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
451 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
452 	    /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior.  */
453 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
454 	    break;
455 
456 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
457 	    target_terminal_ours ();
458 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
459 	    error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
460 		   gdb_signal_to_name (ws.value.sig),
461 		   gdb_signal_to_string (ws.value.sig));
462 	    return;
463 
464 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
465 	    target_terminal_ours ();
466 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
467 	    if (ws.value.integer)
468 	      error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
469 		     ws.value.integer);
470 	    else
471 	      error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
472 	    return;
473 
474 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
475 	    /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals.  */
476 	    xfree (ws.value.execd_pathname);
477 	    resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP;
478 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
479 	    break;
480 
481 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
482 	    resume_signal = ws.value.sig;
483 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
484 	    break;
485 	}
486 
487       if (resume_signal != GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP)
488 	{
489 	  /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way.  */
490 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, resume_signal);
491 	}
492       else
493 	{
494 	  /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec.  */
495 	  if (!terminal_initted)
496 	    {
497 	      /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
498 	         set its process group.  On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
499 	         will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
500 	         setpgid.  */
501 
502 	      /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
503 	         based on what modes we are starting it with.  */
504 	      target_terminal_init ();
505 
506 	      /* Install inferior's terminal modes.  */
507 	      target_terminal_inferior ();
508 
509 	      terminal_initted = 1;
510 	    }
511 
512 	  if (--pending_execs == 0)
513 	    break;
514 
515 	  /* Just make it go on.  */
516 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, GDB_SIGNAL_0);
517 	}
518     }
519 
520   /* Mark all threads non-executing.  */
521   set_executing (resume_ptid, 0);
522 }
523 
524 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command.  */
525 
526 static void
527 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args, int from_tty)
528 {
529   xfree (exec_wrapper);
530   exec_wrapper = NULL;
531 }
532 
533 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes.  */
534 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_fork_child;
535 
536 void
537 _initialize_fork_child (void)
538 {
539   add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
540 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
541 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
542 			    _("\
543 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
544 			    NULL, NULL,
545 			    &setlist, &showlist);
546 
547   add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
548            _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),
549            &unsetlist);
550 }
551