xref: /dragonfly/contrib/gdb-7/gdb/fork-child.c (revision a32bc35d)
1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
2 
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5 
6    Contributed by Cygnus Support.
7 
8    This file is part of GDB.
9 
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14 
15    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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17    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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19 
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21    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
22 
23 #include "defs.h"
24 #include "gdb_string.h"
25 #include "inferior.h"
26 #include "terminal.h"
27 #include "target.h"
28 #include "gdb_wait.h"
29 #include "gdb_vfork.h"
30 #include "gdbcore.h"
31 #include "terminal.h"
32 #include "gdbthread.h"
33 #include "command.h" /* for dont_repeat () */
34 #include "gdbcmd.h"
35 #include "solib.h"
36 
37 #include <signal.h>
38 
39 /* This just gets used as a default if we can't find SHELL.  */
40 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
41 
42 extern char **environ;
43 
44 static char *exec_wrapper;
45 
46 /* Break up SCRATCH into an argument vector suitable for passing to
47    execvp and store it in ARGV.  E.g., on "run a b c d" this routine
48    would get as input the string "a b c d", and as output it would
49    fill in ARGV with the four arguments "a", "b", "c", "d".  */
50 
51 static void
52 breakup_args (char *scratch, char **argv)
53 {
54   char *cp = scratch, *tmp;
55 
56   for (;;)
57     {
58       /* Scan past leading separators */
59       while (*cp == ' ' || *cp == '\t' || *cp == '\n')
60 	cp++;
61 
62       /* Break if at end of string.  */
63       if (*cp == '\0')
64 	break;
65 
66       /* Take an arg.  */
67       *argv++ = cp;
68 
69       /* Scan for next arg separator.  */
70       tmp = strchr (cp, ' ');
71       if (tmp == NULL)
72 	tmp = strchr (cp, '\t');
73       if (tmp == NULL)
74 	tmp = strchr (cp, '\n');
75 
76       /* No separators => end of string => break.  */
77       if (tmp == NULL)
78 	break;
79       cp = tmp;
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.  EXEC_FUN is the exec(2) function to use, or NULL for the default
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                void (*exec_fun)(const char *file, char * const *argv,
128                                 char * const *env))
129 {
130   int pid;
131   static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
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   int i;
145   int save_errno;
146 
147   /* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
148      -- with a good, common error message if none is specified.  */
149   exec_file = exec_file_arg;
150   if (exec_file == 0)
151     exec_file = get_exec_file (1);
152 
153   /* STARTUP_WITH_SHELL is defined in inferior.h.  If 0,e we'll just
154     do a fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what
155     shell.  */
156   shell_file = shell_file_arg;
157   if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
158     {
159       /* Figure out what shell to start up the user program under.  */
160       if (shell_file == NULL)
161 	shell_file = getenv ("SHELL");
162       if (shell_file == NULL)
163 	shell_file = default_shell_file;
164       shell = 1;
165     }
166 
167   if (!shell)
168     {
169       /* We're going to call execvp.  Create argument vector.
170 	 Calculate an upper bound on the length of the vector by
171 	 assuming that every other character is a separate
172 	 argument.  */
173       int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
174 
175       argv = (char **) alloca (argc * sizeof (*argv));
176       argv[0] = exec_file;
177       breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
178     }
179   else
180     {
181       /* We're going to call a shell.  */
182       char *shell_command;
183       int len;
184       char *p;
185       int need_to_quote;
186       const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
187 
188       /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
189          fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
190          based on every character being '.  */
191       len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
192       if (exec_wrapper)
193         len += strlen (exec_wrapper) + 1;
194 
195       shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
196       shell_command[0] = '\0';
197 
198       strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
199 
200       /* Add any exec wrapper.  That may be a program name with arguments, so
201 	 the user must handle quoting.  */
202       if (exec_wrapper)
203 	{
204 	  strcat (shell_command, exec_wrapper);
205 	  strcat (shell_command, " ");
206 	}
207 
208       /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary.  */
209 
210       /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells.  But
211          csh on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it.  So we only quote it if
212          we need to.  */
213       p = exec_file;
214       while (1)
215 	{
216 	  switch (*p)
217 	    {
218 	    case '\'':
219 	    case '!':
220 	    case '"':
221 	    case '(':
222 	    case ')':
223 	    case '$':
224 	    case '&':
225 	    case ';':
226 	    case '<':
227 	    case '>':
228 	    case ' ':
229 	    case '\n':
230 	    case '\t':
231 	      need_to_quote = 1;
232 	      goto end_scan;
233 
234 	    case '\0':
235 	      need_to_quote = 0;
236 	      goto end_scan;
237 
238 	    default:
239 	      break;
240 	    }
241 	  ++p;
242 	}
243     end_scan:
244       if (need_to_quote)
245 	{
246 	  strcat (shell_command, "'");
247 	  for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
248 	    {
249 	      if (*p == '\'')
250 		strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
251 	      else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
252 		strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
253 	      else
254 		strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
255 	    }
256 	  strcat (shell_command, "'");
257 	}
258       else
259 	strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
260 
261       strcat (shell_command, " ");
262       strcat (shell_command, allargs);
263 
264       /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
265 	 shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
266 	 to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
267 	 <args>".  */
268       argv = (char **) alloca (4 * sizeof (char *));
269       argv[0] = shell_file;
270       argv[1] = "-c";
271       argv[2] = shell_command;
272       argv[3] = (char *) 0;
273     }
274 
275   /* On some systems an exec will fail if the executable is open.  */
276   close_exec_file ();
277 
278   /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
279      replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
280      restore it.  */
281   save_our_env = environ;
282 
283   /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
284      it will just record the information for later.  */
285   new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
286 
287   /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
288      output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
289      the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork.  */
290   gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
291   gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
292 
293   /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
294      happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
295      now...  */
296   if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
297     (*pre_trace_fun) ();
298 
299   /* Create the child process.  Since the child process is going to
300      exec(3) shortly afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
301      calling vfork(2).  However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
302      likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
303      work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3).  This is known
304      to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
305      between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
306      exec(2).  However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
307      state, this doesn't work.  Also note that the vfork(2) call might
308      actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
309      ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms.  */
310   if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
311     pid = fork ();
312   else
313     pid = vfork ();
314 
315   if (pid < 0)
316     perror_with_name (("vfork"));
317 
318   if (pid == 0)
319     {
320       if (debug_fork)
321 	sleep (debug_fork);
322 
323       /* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
324          It will also place the inferior in a separate process group.  */
325       if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
326 	{
327 	  /* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
328 	     in a separate process group.  */
329 	  debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
330 	  if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
331 	    perror (_("setpgrp failed in child"));
332 	}
333 
334       /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
335          earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
336          specified).  */
337       new_tty ();
338 
339       /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
340          a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
341          with signals here.  See comments in
342          initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
343          for the inferior.  */
344 
345       /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!"  */
346       (*traceme_fun) ();
347 
348       /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
349         by the original gdb process (the "parent").  Since processes
350         (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
351         gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
352         controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
353         undebuggable.  Indeed, you probably got an error message
354         saying "not parent".  Sorry; you'll have to use print
355         statements!  */
356 
357       /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
358          for our child in the global variable.  If we've vforked, this
359          clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
360          in the parent.  By the way, yes we do need to look down the
361          path to find $SHELL.  Rich Pixley says so, and I agree.  */
362       environ = env;
363 
364       if (exec_fun != NULL)
365         (*exec_fun) (argv[0], argv, env);
366       else
367         execvp (argv[0], argv);
368 
369       /* If we get here, it's an error.  */
370       save_errno = errno;
371       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s", exec_file);
372       for (i = 1; argv[i] != NULL; i++)
373 	fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " %s", argv[i]);
374       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
375       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Error: %s\n",
376 			  safe_strerror (save_errno));
377       gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
378       _exit (0177);
379     }
380 
381   /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it.  */
382   environ = save_our_env;
383 
384   if (!have_inferiors ())
385     init_thread_list ();
386 
387   inf = current_inferior ();
388 
389   inferior_appeared (inf, pid);
390 
391   /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below.  */
392   inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
393 
394   new_tty_postfork ();
395 
396   /* We have something that executes now.  We'll be running through
397      the shell at this point, but the pid shouldn't change.  Targets
398      supporting MT should fill this task's ptid with more data as soon
399      as they can.  */
400   add_thread_silent (inferior_ptid);
401 
402   /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
403      initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
404      initializing.  */
405   if (init_trace_fun)
406     (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
407 
408   /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
409      correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
410      new program.  */
411   return pid;
412 }
413 
414 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior.  */
415 
416 void
417 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
418 {
419   int pending_execs = ntraps;
420   int terminal_initted = 0;
421   ptid_t resume_ptid;
422 
423   if (target_supports_multi_process ())
424     resume_ptid = pid_to_ptid (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
425   else
426     resume_ptid = minus_one_ptid;
427 
428   /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
429      have stopped one instruction after execing the shell.  Here we
430      must get it up to actual execution of the real program.  */
431 
432   if (exec_wrapper)
433     pending_execs++;
434 
435   while (1)
436     {
437       enum target_signal resume_signal = TARGET_SIGNAL_0;
438       ptid_t event_ptid;
439 
440       struct target_waitstatus ws;
441       memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws));
442       event_ptid = target_wait (resume_ptid, &ws, 0);
443 
444       if (ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
445 	/* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting.  */
446 	continue;
447 
448       switch (ws.kind)
449 	{
450 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
451 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
452 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
453 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
454 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
455 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
456 	    /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior.  */
457 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
458 	    break;
459 
460 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
461 	    target_terminal_ours ();
462 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
463 	    error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
464 		   target_signal_to_name (ws.value.sig),
465 		   target_signal_to_string (ws.value.sig));
466 	    return;
467 
468 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
469 	    target_terminal_ours ();
470 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
471 	    if (ws.value.integer)
472 	      error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
473 		     ws.value.integer);
474 	    else
475 	      error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
476 	    return;
477 
478 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
479 	    /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals.  */
480 	    xfree (ws.value.execd_pathname);
481 	    resume_signal = TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP;
482 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
483 	    break;
484 
485 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
486 	    resume_signal = ws.value.sig;
487 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
488 	    break;
489 	}
490 
491       if (resume_signal != TARGET_SIGNAL_TRAP)
492 	{
493 	  /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way.  */
494 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, resume_signal);
495 	}
496       else
497 	{
498 	  /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec.  */
499 	  if (!terminal_initted)
500 	    {
501 	      /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
502 	         set its process group.  On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
503 	         will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
504 	         setpgid.  */
505 
506 	      /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
507 	         based on what modes we are starting it with.  */
508 	      target_terminal_init ();
509 
510 	      /* Install inferior's terminal modes.  */
511 	      target_terminal_inferior ();
512 
513 	      terminal_initted = 1;
514 	    }
515 
516 	  if (--pending_execs == 0)
517 	    break;
518 
519 	  /* Just make it go on.  */
520 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, TARGET_SIGNAL_0);
521 	}
522     }
523 
524   /* Mark all threads non-executing.  */
525   set_executing (resume_ptid, 0);
526 }
527 
528 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command.  */
529 
530 static void
531 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args, int from_tty)
532 {
533   xfree (exec_wrapper);
534   exec_wrapper = NULL;
535 }
536 
537 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes.  */
538 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_fork_child;
539 
540 void
541 _initialize_fork_child (void)
542 {
543   add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
544 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
545 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
546 			    _("\
547 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
548 			    NULL, NULL,
549 			    &setlist, &showlist);
550 
551   add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
552            _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),
553            &unsetlist);
554 }
555