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-rw-r--r--gdb/fork-child.c89
2 files changed, 44 insertions, 52 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 5108ef1..a881b47 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2011-09-16 Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
+
+ * fork-child.c (fork_inferior): Update comment. Use alloca
+ instead of xmalloc for argv. Move len and shell_command
+ declarations in the block where they are used.
+ Only call execvp. Factorize failure code.
+
2011-09-16 Abhijit Halder <abhijit.k.halder@gmail.com>
Code cleanup.
diff --git a/gdb/fork-child.c b/gdb/fork-child.c
index bb173e7..5dbf1f7 100644
--- a/gdb/fork-child.c
+++ b/gdb/fork-child.c
@@ -126,9 +126,7 @@ fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
void (*pre_trace_fun) (void), char *shell_file_arg)
{
int pid;
- char *shell_command;
static char default_shell_file[] = SHELL_FILE;
- int len;
/* Set debug_fork then attach to the child while it sleeps, to debug. */
static int debug_fork = 0;
/* This is set to the result of setpgrp, which if vforked, will be visible
@@ -141,6 +139,8 @@ fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
static char **argv;
const char *inferior_io_terminal = get_inferior_io_terminal ();
struct inferior *inf;
+ int i;
+ int save_errno;
/* If no exec file handed to us, get it from the exec-file command
-- with a good, common error message if none is specified. */
@@ -162,16 +162,6 @@ fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
shell = 1;
}
- /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
- fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
- based on every character being '. */
- len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
- if (exec_wrapper)
- len += strlen (exec_wrapper) + 1;
-
- shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
- shell_command[0] = '\0';
-
if (!shell)
{
/* We're going to call execvp. Create argument vector.
@@ -180,18 +170,29 @@ fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
argument. */
int argc = (strlen (allargs) + 1) / 2 + 2;
- argv = (char **) xmalloc (argc * sizeof (*argv));
+ argv = (char **) alloca (argc * sizeof (*argv));
argv[0] = exec_file;
breakup_args (allargs, &argv[1]);
}
else
{
/* We're going to call a shell. */
-
+ char *shell_command;
+ int len;
char *p;
int need_to_quote;
const int escape_bang = escape_bang_in_quoted_argument (shell_file);
+ /* Multiplying the length of exec_file by 4 is to account for the
+ fact that it may expand when quoted; it is a worst-case number
+ based on every character being '. */
+ len = 5 + 4 * strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (allargs) + 1 + /*slop */ 12;
+ if (exec_wrapper)
+ len += strlen (exec_wrapper) + 1;
+
+ shell_command = (char *) alloca (len);
+ shell_command[0] = '\0';
+
strcat (shell_command, "exec ");
/* Add any exec wrapper. That may be a program name with arguments, so
@@ -257,6 +258,16 @@ fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
strcat (shell_command, " ");
strcat (shell_command, allargs);
+
+ /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
+ shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
+ to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
+ <args>". */
+ argv = (char **) alloca (4 * sizeof (char *));
+ argv[0] = shell_file;
+ argv[1] = "-c";
+ argv[2] = shell_command;
+ argv[3] = (char *) 0;
}
/* On some systems an exec will fail if the executable is open. */
@@ -348,44 +359,18 @@ fork_inferior (char *exec_file_arg, char *allargs, char **env,
path to find $SHELL. Rich Pixley says so, and I agree. */
environ = env;
- /* If we decided above to start up with a shell, we exec the
- shell, "-c" says to interpret the next arg as a shell command
- to execute, and this command is "exec <target-program>
- <args>". */
- if (shell)
- {
- execlp (shell_file, shell_file, "-c", shell_command, (char *) 0);
-
- /* If we get here, it's an error. */
- fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s: %s.\n", shell_file,
- safe_strerror (errno));
- gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
- _exit (0177);
- }
- else
- {
- /* Otherwise, we directly exec the target program with
- execvp. */
- int i;
-
- execvp (exec_file, argv);
-
- /* If we get here, it's an error. */
- safe_strerror (errno);
- fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s ", exec_file);
-
- i = 1;
- while (argv[i] != NULL)
- {
- if (i != 1)
- fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " ");
- fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "%s", argv[i]);
- i++;
- }
- fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
- gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
- _exit (0177);
- }
+ execvp (argv[0], argv);
+
+ /* If we get here, it's an error. */
+ save_errno = errno;
+ fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Cannot exec %s", exec_file);
+ for (i = 1; argv[i] != NULL; i++)
+ fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, " %s", argv[i]);
+ fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, ".\n");
+ fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Error: %s\n",
+ safe_strerror (save_errno));
+ gdb_flush (gdb_stderr);
+ _exit (0177);
}
/* Restore our environment in case a vforked child clob'd it. */