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1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
2 
3    Copyright (C) 1990-2015 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 "inferior.h"
24 #include "terminal.h"
25 #include "target.h"
26 #include "gdb_wait.h"
27 #include "gdb_vfork.h"
28 #include "gdbcore.h"
29 #include "gdbthread.h"
30 #include "command.h" /* for dont_repeat () */
31 #include "gdbcmd.h"
32 #include "solib.h"
33 #include "filestuff.h"
34 
35 #include <signal.h>
36 
37 /* This just gets used as a default if we can't find SHELL.  */
38 #define SHELL_FILE "/bin/sh"
39 
40 extern char **environ;
41 
42 static char *exec_wrapper;
43 
44 /* Break up SCRATCH into an argument vector suitable for passing to
45    execvp and store it in ARGV.  E.g., on "run a b c d" this routine
46    would get as input the string "a b c d", and as output it would
47    fill in ARGV with the four arguments "a", "b", "c", "d".  */
48 
49 static void
50 breakup_args (char *scratch, char **argv)
51 {
52   char *cp = scratch, *tmp;
53 
54   for (;;)
55     {
56       /* Scan past leading separators */
57       while (*cp == ' ' || *cp == '\t' || *cp == '\n')
58 	cp++;
59 
60       /* Break if at end of string.  */
61       if (*cp == '\0')
62 	break;
63 
64       /* Take an arg.  */
65       *argv++ = cp;
66 
67       /* Scan for next arg separator.  */
68       tmp = strchr (cp, ' ');
69       if (tmp == NULL)
70 	tmp = strchr (cp, '\t');
71       if (tmp == NULL)
72 	tmp = strchr (cp, '\n');
73 
74       /* No separators => end of string => break.  */
75       if (tmp == NULL)
76 	break;
77       cp = tmp;
78 
79       /* Replace the separator with a terminator.  */
80       *cp++ = '\0';
81     }
82 
83   /* Null-terminate the vector.  */
84   *argv = NULL;
85 }
86 
87 /* When executing a command under the given shell, return non-zero if
88    the '!' character should be escaped when embedded in a quoted
89    command-line argument.  */
90 
91 static int
92 escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (const char *shell_file)
93 {
94   const int shell_file_len = strlen (shell_file);
95 
96   /* Bang should be escaped only in C Shells.  For now, simply check
97      that the shell name ends with 'csh', which covers at least csh
98      and tcsh.  This should be good enough for now.  */
99 
100   if (shell_file_len < 3)
101     return 0;
102 
103   if (shell_file[shell_file_len - 3] == 'c'
104       && shell_file[shell_file_len - 2] == 's'
105       && shell_file[shell_file_len - 1] == 'h')
106     return 1;
107 
108   return 0;
109 }
110 
111 /* Start an inferior Unix child process and sets inferior_ptid to its
112    pid.  EXEC_FILE is the file to run.  ALLARGS is a string containing
113    the arguments to the program.  ENV is the environment vector to
114    pass.  SHELL_FILE is the shell file, or NULL if we should pick
115    one.  EXEC_FUN is the exec(2) function to use, or NULL for the default
116    one.  */
117 
118 /* This function is NOT reentrant.  Some of the variables have been
119    made static to ensure that they survive the vfork call.  */
120 
121 int
122 fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
123 	       void (*traceme_fun) (void), void (*init_trace_fun) (int),
124 	       void (*pre_trace_fun) (void), char *shell_file_arg,
125                void (*exec_fun)(const char *file, char * const *argv,
126                                 char * const *env))
127 {
128   int pid;
129   static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
130   /* Set debug_fork then attach to the child while it sleeps, to debug.  */
131   static int debug_fork = 0;
132   /* This is set to the result of setpgrp, which if vforked, will be visible
133      to you in the parent process.  It's only used by humans for debugging.  */
134   static int debug_setpgrp = 657473;
135   static char *shell_file;
136   static char *exec_file;
137   char **save_our_env;
138   int shell = 0;
139   static char **argv;
140   const char *inferior_io_terminal = get_inferior_io_terminal ();
141   struct inferior *inf;
142   int i;
143   int save_errno;
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 declared in inferior.h and bound to the
152      "set startup-with-shell" option.  If 0, we'll just do a
153      fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what 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   if (!shell)
166     {
167       /* We're going to call execvp.  Create argument vector.
168 	 Calculate an upper bound on the length of the vector by
169 	 assuming that every other character is a separate
170 	 argument.  */
171       int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
172 
173       argv = (char **) alloca (argc * sizeof (*argv));
174       argv[0] = exec_file;
175       breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
176     }
177   else
178     {
179       /* We're going to call a shell.  */
180       char *shell_command;
181       int len;
182       char *p;
183       int need_to_quote;
184       const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
185 
186       /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
187          fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
188          based on every character being '.  */
189       len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
190       if (exec_wrapper)
191         len += strlen (exec_wrapper) + 1;
192 
193       shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
194       shell_command[0] = '\0';
195 
196       strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
197 
198       /* Add any exec wrapper.  That may be a program name with arguments, so
199 	 the user must handle quoting.  */
200       if (exec_wrapper)
201 	{
202 	  strcat (shell_command, exec_wrapper);
203 	  strcat (shell_command, " ");
204 	}
205 
206       /* Now add exec_file, quoting as necessary.  */
207 
208       /* Quoting in this style is said to work with all shells.  But
209          csh on IRIX 4.0.1 can't deal with it.  So we only quote it if
210          we need to.  */
211       p = exec_file;
212       while (1)
213 	{
214 	  switch (*p)
215 	    {
216 	    case '\'':
217 	    case '!':
218 	    case '"':
219 	    case '(':
220 	    case ')':
221 	    case '$':
222 	    case '&':
223 	    case ';':
224 	    case '<':
225 	    case '>':
226 	    case ' ':
227 	    case '\n':
228 	    case '\t':
229 	      need_to_quote = 1;
230 	      goto end_scan;
231 
232 	    case '\0':
233 	      need_to_quote = 0;
234 	      goto end_scan;
235 
236 	    default:
237 	      break;
238 	    }
239 	  ++p;
240 	}
241     end_scan:
242       if (need_to_quote)
243 	{
244 	  strcat (shell_command, "'");
245 	  for (p = exec_file; *p != '\0'; ++p)
246 	    {
247 	      if (*p == '\'')
248 		strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
249 	      else if (*p == '!' && escape_bang)
250 		strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
251 	      else
252 		strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
253 	    }
254 	  strcat (shell_command, "'");
255 	}
256       else
257 	strcat (shell_command, exec_file);
258 
259       strcat (shell_command, " ");
260       strcat (shell_command, allargs);
261 
262       /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
263 	 shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
264 	 to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
265 	 <args>".  */
266       argv = (char **) alloca (4 * sizeof (char *));
267       argv[0] = shell_file;
268       argv[1] = "-c";
269       argv[2] = shell_command;
270       argv[3] = (char *) 0;
271     }
272 
273   /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
274      replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
275      restore it.  */
276   save_our_env = environ;
277 
278   /* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
279      it will just record the information for later.  */
280   new_tty_prefork (inferior_io_terminal);
281 
282   /* It is generally good practice to flush any possible pending stdio
283      output prior to doing a fork, to avoid the possibility of both
284      the parent and child flushing the same data after the fork.  */
285   gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
286   gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
287 
288   /* If there's any initialization of the target layers that must
289      happen to prepare to handle the child we're about fork, do it
290      now...  */
291   if (pre_trace_fun != NULL)
292     (*pre_trace_fun) ();
293 
294   /* Create the child process.  Since the child process is going to
295      exec(3) shortly afterwards, try to reduce the overhead by
296      calling vfork(2).  However, if PRE_TRACE_FUN is non-null, it's
297      likely that this optimization won't work since there's too much
298      work to do between the vfork(2) and the exec(3).  This is known
299      to be the case on ttrace(2)-based HP-UX, where some handshaking
300      between parent and child needs to happen between fork(2) and
301      exec(2).  However, since the parent is suspended in the vforked
302      state, this doesn't work.  Also note that the vfork(2) call might
303      actually be a call to fork(2) due to the fact that autoconf will
304      ``#define vfork fork'' on certain platforms.  */
305   if (pre_trace_fun || debug_fork)
306     pid = fork ();
307   else
308     pid = vfork ();
309 
310   if (pid < 0)
311     perror_with_name (("vfork"));
312 
313   if (pid == 0)
314     {
315       close_most_fds ();
316 
317       if (debug_fork)
318 	sleep (debug_fork);
319 
320       /* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
321          It will also place the inferior in a separate process group.  */
322       if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
323 	{
324 	  /* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
325 	     in a separate process group.  */
326 	  debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
327 	  if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
328 	    perror (_("setpgrp failed in child"));
329 	}
330 
331       /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
332          earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
333          specified).  */
334       new_tty ();
335 
336       /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
337          a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
338          with signals here.  See comments in
339          initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
340          for the inferior.  */
341 
342       /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!"  */
343       (*traceme_fun) ();
344 
345       /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
346         by the original gdb process (the "parent").  Since processes
347         (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
348         gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
349         controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
350         undebuggable.  Indeed, you probably got an error message
351         saying "not parent".  Sorry; you'll have to use print
352         statements!  */
353 
354       /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
355          for our child in the global variable.  If we've vforked, this
356          clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
357          in the parent.  By the way, yes we do need to look down the
358          path to find $SHELL.  Rich Pixley says so, and I agree.  */
359       environ = env;
360 
361       if (exec_fun != NULL)
362         (*exec_fun) (argv[0], argv, env);
363       else
364         execvp (argv[0], argv);
365 
366       /* If we get here, it's an error.  */
367       save_errno = errno;
368       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s", exec_file);
369       for (i = 1; argv[i] != NULL; i++)
370 	fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " %s", argv[i]);
371       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
372       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Error: %s\n",
373 			  safe_strerror (save_errno));
374       gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
375       _exit (0177);
376     }
377 
378   /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it.  */
379   environ = save_our_env;
380 
381   if (!have_inferiors ())
382     init_thread_list ();
383 
384   inf = current_inferior ();
385 
386   inferior_appeared (inf, pid);
387 
388   /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below.  */
389   inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
390 
391   new_tty_postfork ();
392 
393   /* We have something that executes now.  We'll be running through
394      the shell at this point, but the pid shouldn't change.  Targets
395      supporting MT should fill this task's ptid with more data as soon
396      as they can.  */
397   add_thread_silent (inferior_ptid);
398 
399   /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
400      initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
401      initializing.  */
402   if (init_trace_fun)
403     (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
404 
405   /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
406      correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
407      new program.  */
408   return pid;
409 }
410 
411 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior.  */
412 
413 void
414 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
415 {
416   int pending_execs = ntraps;
417   int terminal_initted = 0;
418   ptid_t resume_ptid;
419 
420   if (startup_with_shell)
421     {
422       /* One trap extra for exec'ing the shell.  */
423       pending_execs++;
424     }
425 
426   if (target_supports_multi_process ())
427     resume_ptid = pid_to_ptid (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
428   else
429     resume_ptid = minus_one_ptid;
430 
431   /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
432      have stopped one instruction after execing the shell.  Here we
433      must get it up to actual execution of the real program.  */
434 
435   if (exec_wrapper)
436     pending_execs++;
437 
438   while (1)
439     {
440       enum gdb_signal resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_0;
441       ptid_t event_ptid;
442 
443       struct target_waitstatus ws;
444       memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws));
445       event_ptid = target_wait (resume_ptid, &ws, 0);
446 
447       if (ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
448 	/* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting.  */
449 	continue;
450 
451       switch (ws.kind)
452 	{
453 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
454 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
455 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
456 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
457 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
458 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
459 	    /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior.  */
460 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
461 	    break;
462 
463 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
464 	    target_terminal_ours ();
465 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
466 	    error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
467 		   gdb_signal_to_name (ws.value.sig),
468 		   gdb_signal_to_string (ws.value.sig));
469 	    return;
470 
471 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
472 	    target_terminal_ours ();
473 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
474 	    if (ws.value.integer)
475 	      error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
476 		     ws.value.integer);
477 	    else
478 	      error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
479 	    return;
480 
481 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
482 	    /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals.  */
483 	    xfree (ws.value.execd_pathname);
484 	    resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP;
485 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
486 	    break;
487 
488 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
489 	    resume_signal = ws.value.sig;
490 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
491 	    break;
492 	}
493 
494       if (resume_signal != GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP)
495 	{
496 	  /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way.  */
497 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, resume_signal);
498 	}
499       else
500 	{
501 	  /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec.  */
502 	  if (!terminal_initted)
503 	    {
504 	      /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
505 	         set its process group.  On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
506 	         will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
507 	         setpgid.  */
508 
509 	      /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
510 	         based on what modes we are starting it with.  */
511 	      target_terminal_init ();
512 
513 	      /* Install inferior's terminal modes.  */
514 	      target_terminal_inferior ();
515 
516 	      terminal_initted = 1;
517 	    }
518 
519 	  if (--pending_execs == 0)
520 	    break;
521 
522 	  /* Just make it go on.  */
523 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, GDB_SIGNAL_0);
524 	}
525     }
526 
527   /* Mark all threads non-executing.  */
528   set_executing (resume_ptid, 0);
529 }
530 
531 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command.  */
532 
533 static void
534 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args, int from_tty)
535 {
536   xfree (exec_wrapper);
537   exec_wrapper = NULL;
538 }
539 
540 static void
541 show_startup_with_shell (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty,
542 			 struct cmd_list_element *c, const char *value)
543 {
544   fprintf_filtered (file,
545 		    _("Use of shell to start subprocesses is %s.\n"),
546 		    value);
547 }
548 
549 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes.  */
550 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_fork_child;
551 
552 void
553 _initialize_fork_child (void)
554 {
555   add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
556 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
557 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
558 			    _("\
559 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
560 			    NULL, NULL,
561 			    &setlist, &showlist);
562 
563   add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
564            _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),
565            &unsetlist);
566 
567   add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("startup-with-shell", class_support,
568 			   &startup_with_shell, _("\
569 Set use of shell to start subprocesses.  The default is on."), _("\
570 Show use of shell to start subprocesses."), NULL,
571 			   NULL,
572 			   show_startup_with_shell,
573 			   &setlist, &showlist);
574 }
575