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1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
2 
3    Copyright (C) 1990-2014 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 <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 "gdbthread.h"
31 #include "command.h" /* for dont_repeat () */
32 #include "gdbcmd.h"
33 #include "solib.h"
34 #include "filestuff.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 declared in inferior.h and bound to the
153      "set startup-with-shell" option.  If 0, we'll just do a
154      fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what 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       close_most_fds ();
317 
318       if (debug_fork)
319 	sleep (debug_fork);
320 
321       /* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
322          It will also place the inferior in a separate process group.  */
323       if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
324 	{
325 	  /* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
326 	     in a separate process group.  */
327 	  debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
328 	  if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
329 	    perror (_("setpgrp failed in child"));
330 	}
331 
332       /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
333          earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
334          specified).  */
335       new_tty ();
336 
337       /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
338          a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
339          with signals here.  See comments in
340          initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
341          for the inferior.  */
342 
343       /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!"  */
344       (*traceme_fun) ();
345 
346       /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
347         by the original gdb process (the "parent").  Since processes
348         (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
349         gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
350         controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
351         undebuggable.  Indeed, you probably got an error message
352         saying "not parent".  Sorry; you'll have to use print
353         statements!  */
354 
355       /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
356          for our child in the global variable.  If we've vforked, this
357          clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
358          in the parent.  By the way, yes we do need to look down the
359          path to find $SHELL.  Rich Pixley says so, and I agree.  */
360       environ = env;
361 
362       if (exec_fun != NULL)
363         (*exec_fun) (argv[0], argv, env);
364       else
365         execvp (argv[0], argv);
366 
367       /* If we get here, it's an error.  */
368       save_errno = errno;
369       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s", exec_file);
370       for (i = 1; argv[i] != NULL; i++)
371 	fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " %s", argv[i]);
372       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
373       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Error: %s\n",
374 			  safe_strerror (save_errno));
375       gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
376       _exit (0177);
377     }
378 
379   /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it.  */
380   environ = save_our_env;
381 
382   if (!have_inferiors ())
383     init_thread_list ();
384 
385   inf = current_inferior ();
386 
387   inferior_appeared (inf, pid);
388 
389   /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below.  */
390   inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
391 
392   new_tty_postfork ();
393 
394   /* We have something that executes now.  We'll be running through
395      the shell at this point, but the pid shouldn't change.  Targets
396      supporting MT should fill this task's ptid with more data as soon
397      as they can.  */
398   add_thread_silent (inferior_ptid);
399 
400   /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
401      initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
402      initializing.  */
403   if (init_trace_fun)
404     (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
405 
406   /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
407      correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
408      new program.  */
409   return pid;
410 }
411 
412 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior.  */
413 
414 void
415 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
416 {
417   int pending_execs = ntraps;
418   int terminal_initted = 0;
419   ptid_t resume_ptid;
420 
421   if (startup_with_shell)
422     {
423       /* One trap extra for exec'ing the shell.  */
424       pending_execs++;
425     }
426 
427   if (target_supports_multi_process ())
428     resume_ptid = pid_to_ptid (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
429   else
430     resume_ptid = minus_one_ptid;
431 
432   /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
433      have stopped one instruction after execing the shell.  Here we
434      must get it up to actual execution of the real program.  */
435 
436   if (exec_wrapper)
437     pending_execs++;
438 
439   while (1)
440     {
441       enum gdb_signal resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_0;
442       ptid_t event_ptid;
443 
444       struct target_waitstatus ws;
445       memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws));
446       event_ptid = target_wait (resume_ptid, &ws, 0);
447 
448       if (ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
449 	/* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting.  */
450 	continue;
451 
452       switch (ws.kind)
453 	{
454 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
455 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
456 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
457 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
458 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
459 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
460 	    /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior.  */
461 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
462 	    break;
463 
464 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
465 	    target_terminal_ours ();
466 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
467 	    error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
468 		   gdb_signal_to_name (ws.value.sig),
469 		   gdb_signal_to_string (ws.value.sig));
470 	    return;
471 
472 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
473 	    target_terminal_ours ();
474 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
475 	    if (ws.value.integer)
476 	      error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
477 		     ws.value.integer);
478 	    else
479 	      error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
480 	    return;
481 
482 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
483 	    /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals.  */
484 	    xfree (ws.value.execd_pathname);
485 	    resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP;
486 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
487 	    break;
488 
489 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
490 	    resume_signal = ws.value.sig;
491 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
492 	    break;
493 	}
494 
495       if (resume_signal != GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP)
496 	{
497 	  /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way.  */
498 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, resume_signal);
499 	}
500       else
501 	{
502 	  /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec.  */
503 	  if (!terminal_initted)
504 	    {
505 	      /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
506 	         set its process group.  On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
507 	         will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
508 	         setpgid.  */
509 
510 	      /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
511 	         based on what modes we are starting it with.  */
512 	      target_terminal_init ();
513 
514 	      /* Install inferior's terminal modes.  */
515 	      target_terminal_inferior ();
516 
517 	      terminal_initted = 1;
518 	    }
519 
520 	  if (--pending_execs == 0)
521 	    break;
522 
523 	  /* Just make it go on.  */
524 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, GDB_SIGNAL_0);
525 	}
526     }
527 
528   /* Mark all threads non-executing.  */
529   set_executing (resume_ptid, 0);
530 }
531 
532 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command.  */
533 
534 static void
535 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args, int from_tty)
536 {
537   xfree (exec_wrapper);
538   exec_wrapper = NULL;
539 }
540 
541 static void
542 show_startup_with_shell (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty,
543 			 struct cmd_list_element *c, const char *value)
544 {
545   fprintf_filtered (file,
546 		    _("Use of shell to start subprocesses is %s.\n"),
547 		    value);
548 }
549 
550 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes.  */
551 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_fork_child;
552 
553 void
554 _initialize_fork_child (void)
555 {
556   add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
557 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
558 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
559 			    _("\
560 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
561 			    NULL, NULL,
562 			    &setlist, &showlist);
563 
564   add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
565            _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),
566            &unsetlist);
567 
568   add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("startup-with-shell", class_support,
569 			   &startup_with_shell, _("\
570 Set use of shell to start subprocesses.  The default is on."), _("\
571 Show use of shell to start subprocesses."), NULL,
572 			   NULL,
573 			   show_startup_with_shell,
574 			   &setlist, &showlist);
575 }
576