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1#!/bin/sh
2
3#   Copyright (C) 2003-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8# (at your option) any later version.
9#
10# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
13# GNU General Public License for more details.
14#
15# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
17
18#
19# Script to generate a core file of a running program.
20# It starts up gdb, attaches to the given PID and invokes the gcore command.
21#
22
23if [ "$#" -eq "0" ]
24then
25    echo "usage:  @GCORE_TRANSFORM_NAME@ [-o filename] pid"
26    exit 2
27fi
28
29# Need to check for -o option, but set default basename to "core".
30name=core
31
32if [ "$1" = "-o" ]
33then
34    if [ "$#" -lt "3" ]
35    then
36	# Not enough arguments.
37	echo "usage:  @GCORE_TRANSFORM_NAME@ [-o filename] pid"
38	exit 2
39    fi
40    name=$2
41
42    # Shift over to start of pid list
43    shift; shift
44fi
45
46# Attempt to fetch the absolute path to the gcore script that was
47# called.
48binary_path=`dirname "$0"`
49
50if test "x$binary_path" = x. ; then
51  # We got "." back as a path.  This means the user executed
52  # the gcore script locally (i.e. ./gcore) or called the
53  # script via a shell interpreter (i.e. sh gcore).
54  binary_basename=`basename "$0"`
55
56  # If the gcore script was called like "sh gcore" and the script
57  # lives in the current directory, "which" will not give us "gcore".
58  # So first we check if the script is in the current directory
59  # before using the output of "which".
60  if test -f "$binary_basename" ; then
61    # We have a local gcore script in ".".  This covers the case of
62    # doing "./gcore" or "sh gcore".
63    binary_path="."
64  else
65    # The gcore script was not found in ".", which means the script
66    # was called from somewhere else in $PATH by "sh gcore".
67    # Extract the correct path now.
68    binary_path_from_env=`which "$0"`
69    binary_path=`dirname "$binary_path_from_env"`
70  fi
71fi
72
73# Check if the GDB binary is in the expected path.  If not, just
74# quit with a message.
75if [ ! -f "$binary_path"/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@ ]; then
76  echo "gcore: GDB binary (${binary_path}/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@) not found"
77  exit 1
78fi
79
80# Initialise return code.
81rc=0
82
83# Loop through pids
84for pid in $*
85do
86	# `</dev/null' to avoid touching interactive terminal if it is
87	# available but not accessible as GDB would get stopped on SIGTTIN.
88	$binary_path/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@ </dev/null --nx --batch \
89	    -ex "set pagination off" -ex "set height 0" -ex "set width 0" \
90	    -ex "attach $pid" -ex "gcore $name.$pid" -ex detach -ex quit
91
92	if [ -r $name.$pid ] ; then
93	    rc=0
94	else
95	    echo "@GCORE_TRANSFORM_NAME@: failed to create $name.$pid"
96	    rc=1
97	    break
98	fi
99
100
101done
102
103exit $rc
104