gdb: split up construct_inferior_arguments

The function construct_inferior_arguments (gdbsupport/common-inferior.cc)
currently escapes all special shell characters.  After this commit
there will be two "levels" of quoting:

  1. The current "full" quoting, where all posix shell special
  characters are quoted, and

  2. a new "reduced" quoting, where only the characters that GDB sees
  as special (quotes and whitespace) are quoted.

After this, almost all construct_inferior_arguments calls will use the
"full" quoting, which is the current quoting.  The "reduced" quoting
will be used in this commit to restore the behaviour that was lost in
the previous commit (more details below).

In the future, the reduced quoting will be useful for some additional
inferior argument that I have planned.  I already posted my full
inferior argument work here:

  https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/cover.1730731085.git.aburgess@redhat.com

But that series is pretty long, and wasn't getting reviewed, so I'm
posted the series in parts now.

Before the previous commit, GDB behaved like this:

  $ gdb -eiex 'set startup-with-shell off' --args /tmp/exec '$FOO'
  (gdb) show args
  Argument list to give program being debugged when it is started is "$FOO".

Notice that with 'startup-with-shell' off, the argument was left as
just '$FOO'.  But after the previous commit, this changed to:

  $ gdb -eiex 'set startup-with-shell off' --args /tmp/exec '$FOO'
  (gdb) show args
  Argument list to give program being debugged when it is started is "\$FOO".

Now the '$' is escaped with a backslash.  This commit restores the
original behaviour, as this is (currently) the only way to unquoted
shell special characters into arguments from the GDB command line.
The series that I listed above includes a new command line option for
GDB which provides a better approach for controlling the quoting of
special shell characters, but that work requires these patches to be
merged first.

I've split out the core of construct_inferior_arguments into the new
function escape_characters, which takes a set of characters to escape.
Then the two functions escape_shell_characters and
escape_gdb_characters call escape_characters with the appropriate
character sets.

Finally, construct_inferior_arguments, now takes a boolean which
indicates if we should perform full shell escaping, or just perform
the reduced escaping.

I've updated all uses of construct_inferior_arguments to pass a
suitable value to indicate what escaping to perform (mostly just
'true', but one case in main.c is different), also I've updated
inferior::set_args to take the same boolean flag, and pass it through
to construct_inferior_arguments.

Tested-By: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/python/py-inferior.c b/gdb/python/py-inferior.c
index d11ca9e..356961c 100644
--- a/gdb/python/py-inferior.c
+++ b/gdb/python/py-inferior.c
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ infpy_set_args (PyObject *self, PyObject *value, void *closure)
       for (const auto &arg : args)
 	argvec.push_back (arg.get ());
       gdb::array_view<char * const> view (argvec.data (), argvec.size ());
-      inf->inferior->set_args (view);
+      inf->inferior->set_args (view, true);
     }
   else
     {