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1 /* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
2 
3    Copyright (C) 1990-2016 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 #include "top.h"
35 #include "signals-state-save-restore.h"
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   struct ui *save_ui;
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 declared in inferior.h and bound to the
154      "set startup-with-shell" option.  If 0, we'll just do a
155      fork/exec, no shell, so don't bother figuring out what 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 = XALLOCAVEC (char *, argc);
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   /* Retain a copy of our environment variables, since the child will
276      replace the value of environ and if we're vforked, we have to
277      restore it.  */
278   save_our_env = environ;
279 
280   /* Likewise the current UI.  */
281   save_ui = current_ui;
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 (main_ui->m_gdb_stdout);
291   gdb_flush (main_ui->m_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       /* Switch to the main UI, so that gdb_std{in/out/err} in the
321 	 child are mapped to std{in/out/err}.  This makes it possible
322 	 to use fprintf_unfiltered/warning/error/etc. in the child
323 	 from here on.  */
324       current_ui = main_ui;
325 
326       /* Close all file descriptors except those that gdb inherited
327 	 (usually 0/1/2), so they don't leak to the inferior.  Note
328 	 that this closes the file descriptors of all secondary
329 	 UIs.  */
330       close_most_fds ();
331 
332       if (debug_fork)
333 	sleep (debug_fork);
334 
335       /* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
336          It will also place the inferior in a separate process group.  */
337       if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
338 	{
339 	  /* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
340 	     in a separate process group.  */
341 	  debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
342 	  if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
343 	    perror (_("setpgrp failed in child"));
344 	}
345 
346       /* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
347          earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
348          specified).  */
349       new_tty ();
350 
351       /* Changing the signal handlers for the inferior after
352          a vfork can also change them for the superior, so we don't mess
353          with signals here.  See comments in
354          initialize_signals for how we get the right signal handlers
355          for the inferior.  */
356 
357       /* "Trace me, Dr. Memory!"  */
358       (*traceme_fun) ();
359 
360       /* The call above set this process (the "child") as debuggable
361         by the original gdb process (the "parent").  Since processes
362         (unlike people) can have only one parent, if you are debugging
363         gdb itself (and your debugger is thus _already_ the
364         controller/parent for this child), code from here on out is
365         undebuggable.  Indeed, you probably got an error message
366         saying "not parent".  Sorry; you'll have to use print
367         statements!  */
368 
369       restore_original_signals_state ();
370 
371       /* There is no execlpe call, so we have to set the environment
372          for our child in the global variable.  If we've vforked, this
373          clobbers the parent, but environ is restored a few lines down
374          in the parent.  By the way, yes we do need to look down the
375          path to find $SHELL.  Rich Pixley says so, and I agree.  */
376       environ = env;
377 
378       if (exec_fun != NULL)
379         (*exec_fun) (argv[0], argv, env);
380       else
381         execvp (argv[0], argv);
382 
383       /* If we get here, it's an error.  */
384       save_errno = errno;
385       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s", argv[0]);
386       for (i = 1; argv[i] != NULL; i++)
387 	fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " %s", argv[i]);
388       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
389       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Error: %s\n",
390 			  safe_strerror (save_errno));
391       gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
392       _exit (0177);
393     }
394 
395   /* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it.  */
396   environ = save_our_env;
397 
398   /* Likewise the current UI.  */
399   current_ui = save_ui;
400 
401   if (!have_inferiors ())
402     init_thread_list ();
403 
404   inf = current_inferior ();
405 
406   inferior_appeared (inf, pid);
407 
408   /* Needed for wait_for_inferior stuff below.  */
409   inferior_ptid = pid_to_ptid (pid);
410 
411   new_tty_postfork ();
412 
413   /* We have something that executes now.  We'll be running through
414      the shell at this point, but the pid shouldn't change.  Targets
415      supporting MT should fill this task's ptid with more data as soon
416      as they can.  */
417   add_thread_silent (inferior_ptid);
418 
419   /* Now that we have a child process, make it our target, and
420      initialize anything target-vector-specific that needs
421      initializing.  */
422   if (init_trace_fun)
423     (*init_trace_fun) (pid);
424 
425   /* We are now in the child process of interest, having exec'd the
426      correct program, and are poised at the first instruction of the
427      new program.  */
428   return pid;
429 }
430 
431 /* Accept NTRAPS traps from the inferior.  */
432 
433 void
434 startup_inferior (int ntraps)
435 {
436   int pending_execs = ntraps;
437   int terminal_initted = 0;
438   ptid_t resume_ptid;
439 
440   if (startup_with_shell)
441     {
442       /* One trap extra for exec'ing the shell.  */
443       pending_execs++;
444     }
445 
446   if (target_supports_multi_process ())
447     resume_ptid = pid_to_ptid (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
448   else
449     resume_ptid = minus_one_ptid;
450 
451   /* The process was started by the fork that created it, but it will
452      have stopped one instruction after execing the shell.  Here we
453      must get it up to actual execution of the real program.  */
454 
455   if (exec_wrapper)
456     pending_execs++;
457 
458   while (1)
459     {
460       enum gdb_signal resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_0;
461       ptid_t event_ptid;
462 
463       struct target_waitstatus ws;
464       memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws));
465       event_ptid = target_wait (resume_ptid, &ws, 0);
466 
467       if (ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
468 	/* The inferior didn't really stop, keep waiting.  */
469 	continue;
470 
471       switch (ws.kind)
472 	{
473 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SPURIOUS:
474 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED:
475 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED:
476 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED:
477 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
478 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SYSCALL_RETURN:
479 	    /* Ignore gracefully during startup of the inferior.  */
480 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
481 	    break;
482 
483 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED:
484 	    target_terminal_ours ();
485 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
486 	    error (_("During startup program terminated with signal %s, %s."),
487 		   gdb_signal_to_name (ws.value.sig),
488 		   gdb_signal_to_string (ws.value.sig));
489 	    return;
490 
491 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED:
492 	    target_terminal_ours ();
493 	    target_mourn_inferior ();
494 	    if (ws.value.integer)
495 	      error (_("During startup program exited with code %d."),
496 		     ws.value.integer);
497 	    else
498 	      error (_("During startup program exited normally."));
499 	    return;
500 
501 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:
502 	    /* Handle EXEC signals as if they were SIGTRAP signals.  */
503 	    xfree (ws.value.execd_pathname);
504 	    resume_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP;
505 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
506 	    break;
507 
508 	  case TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED:
509 	    resume_signal = ws.value.sig;
510 	    switch_to_thread (event_ptid);
511 	    break;
512 	}
513 
514       if (resume_signal != GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP)
515 	{
516 	  /* Let shell child handle its own signals in its own way.  */
517 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, resume_signal);
518 	}
519       else
520 	{
521 	  /* We handle SIGTRAP, however; it means child did an exec.  */
522 	  if (!terminal_initted)
523 	    {
524 	      /* Now that the child has exec'd we know it has already
525 	         set its process group.  On POSIX systems, tcsetpgrp
526 	         will fail with EPERM if we try it before the child's
527 	         setpgid.  */
528 
529 	      /* Set up the "saved terminal modes" of the inferior
530 	         based on what modes we are starting it with.  */
531 	      target_terminal_init ();
532 
533 	      /* Install inferior's terminal modes.  */
534 	      target_terminal_inferior ();
535 
536 	      terminal_initted = 1;
537 	    }
538 
539 	  if (--pending_execs == 0)
540 	    break;
541 
542 	  /* Just make it go on.  */
543 	  target_resume (resume_ptid, 0, GDB_SIGNAL_0);
544 	}
545     }
546 
547   /* Mark all threads non-executing.  */
548   set_executing (resume_ptid, 0);
549 }
550 
551 /* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command.  */
552 
553 static void
554 unset_exec_wrapper_command (char *args, int from_tty)
555 {
556   xfree (exec_wrapper);
557   exec_wrapper = NULL;
558 }
559 
560 static void
561 show_startup_with_shell (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty,
562 			 struct cmd_list_element *c, const char *value)
563 {
564   fprintf_filtered (file,
565 		    _("Use of shell to start subprocesses is %s.\n"),
566 		    value);
567 }
568 
569 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes.  */
570 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_fork_child;
571 
572 void
573 _initialize_fork_child (void)
574 {
575   add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
576 Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
577 The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
578 			    _("\
579 Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
580 			    NULL, NULL,
581 			    &setlist, &showlist);
582 
583   add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
584            _("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),
585            &unsetlist);
586 
587   add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("startup-with-shell", class_support,
588 			   &startup_with_shell, _("\
589 Set use of shell to start subprocesses.  The default is on."), _("\
590 Show use of shell to start subprocesses."), NULL,
591 			   NULL,
592 			   show_startup_with_shell,
593 			   &setlist, &showlist);
594 }
595