binutils-gdb/gdb/fork-child.c
Simon Marchi e0700ba44c gdb: make string-like set show commands use std::string variable
String-like settings (var_string, var_filename, var_optional_filename,
var_string_noescape) currently take a pointer to a `char *` storage
variable (typically global) that holds the setting's value.  I'd like to
"mordernize" this by changing them to use an std::string for storage.

An obvious reason is that string operations on std::string are often
easier to write than with C strings.  And they avoid having to do any
manual memory management.

Another interesting reason is that, with `char *`, nullptr and an empty
string often both have the same meaning of "no value".  String settings
are initially nullptr (unless initialized otherwise).  But when doing
"set foo" (where `foo` is a string setting), the setting now points to
an empty string.  For example, solib_search_path is nullptr at startup,
but points to an empty string after doing "set solib-search-path".  This
leads to some code that needs to check for both to check for "no value".
Or some code that converts back and forth between NULL and "" when
getting or setting the value.  I find this very error-prone, because it
is very easy to forget one or the other.  With std::string, we at least
know that the variable is not "NULL".  There is only one way of
representing an empty string setting, that is with an empty string.

I was wondering whether the distinction between NULL and "" would be
important for some setting, but it doesn't seem so.  If that ever
happens, it would be more C++-y and self-descriptive to use
optional<string> anyway.

Actually, there's one spot where this distinction mattered, it's in
init_history, for the test gdb.base/gdbinit-history.exp.  init_history
sets the history filename to the default ".gdb_history" if it sees that
the setting was never set - if history_filename is nullptr.  If
history_filename is an empty string, it means the setting was explicitly
cleared, so it leaves it as-is.  With the change to std::string, this
distinction doesn't exist anymore.  This can be fixed by moving the code
that chooses a good default value for history_filename to
_initialize_top.  This is ran before -ex commands are processed, so an
-ex command can then clear that value if needed (what
gdb.base/gdbinit-history.exp tests).

Another small improvement, in my opinion is that we can now easily
give string parameters initial values, by simply initializing the global
variables, instead of xstrdup-ing it in the _initialize function.

In Python and Guile, when registering a string-like parameter, we
allocate (with new) an std::string that is owned by the param_smob (in
Guile) and the parmpy_object (in Python) objects.

This patch started by changing all relevant add_setshow_* commands to
take an `std::string *` instead of a `char **` and fixing everything
that failed to build.  That includes of course all string setting
variable and their uses.

string_option_def now uses an std::string also, because there's a
connection between options and settings (see
add_setshow_cmds_for_options).

The add_path function in source.c is really complex and twisted, I'd
rather not try to change it to work on an std::string right now.
Instead, I added an overload that copies the std:string to a `char *`
and back.  This means more copying, but this is not used in a hot path
at all, so I think it is acceptable.

Change-Id: I92c50a1bdd8307141cdbacb388248e4e4fc08c93
Co-authored-by: Lancelot SIX <lsix@lancelotsix.com>
2021-10-03 17:53:16 +01:00

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/* Fork a Unix child process, and set up to debug it, for GDB.
Copyright (C) 1990-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Contributed by Cygnus Support.
This file is part of GDB.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#include "defs.h"
#include "inferior.h"
#include "gdbcmd.h"
#include "terminal.h"
#include "gdbthread.h"
#include "top.h"
#include "gdbsupport/job-control.h"
#include "gdbsupport/filestuff.h"
#include "nat/fork-inferior.h"
#include "gdbsupport/common-inferior.h"
/* The exec-wrapper, if any, that will be used when starting the
inferior. */
static std::string exec_wrapper;
/* See gdbsupport/common-inferior.h. */
const char *
get_exec_wrapper ()
{
return !exec_wrapper.empty () ? exec_wrapper.c_str () : nullptr;
}
/* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
void
gdb_flush_out_err ()
{
gdb_flush (main_ui->m_gdb_stdout);
gdb_flush (main_ui->m_gdb_stderr);
}
/* The ui structure that will be saved on 'prefork_hook' and
restored on 'postfork_hook'. */
static struct ui *saved_ui = NULL;
/* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
void
prefork_hook (const char *args)
{
gdb_assert (saved_ui == NULL);
/* Retain a copy of our UI, since the child will replace this value
and if we're vforked, we have to restore it. */
saved_ui = current_ui;
/* Tell the terminal handling subsystem what tty we plan to run on;
it will just record the information for later. */
new_tty_prefork (current_inferior ()->tty ());
}
/* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
void
postfork_hook (pid_t pid)
{
inferior *inf = current_inferior ();
inferior_appeared (inf, pid);
gdb_assert (saved_ui != NULL);
current_ui = saved_ui;
saved_ui = NULL;
new_tty_postfork ();
}
/* See nat/fork-inferior.h. */
void
postfork_child_hook ()
{
/* This is set to the result of setpgrp, which if vforked, will be
visible to you in the parent process. It's only used by humans
for debugging. */
static int debug_setpgrp = 657473;
/* Make sure we switch to main_ui here in order to be able to
use the fprintf_unfiltered/warning/error functions. */
current_ui = main_ui;
/* Create a new session for the inferior process, if necessary.
It will also place the inferior in a separate process group. */
if (create_tty_session () <= 0)
{
/* No session was created, but we still want to run the inferior
in a separate process group. */
debug_setpgrp = gdb_setpgid ();
if (debug_setpgrp == -1)
perror (_("setpgrp failed in child"));
}
/* Ask the tty subsystem to switch to the one we specified
earlier (or to share the current terminal, if none was
specified). */
new_tty ();
}
/* See inferior.h. */
ptid_t
gdb_startup_inferior (pid_t pid, int num_traps)
{
inferior *inf = current_inferior ();
process_stratum_target *proc_target = inf->process_target ();
ptid_t ptid = startup_inferior (proc_target, pid, num_traps, NULL, NULL);
/* Mark all threads non-executing. */
set_executing (proc_target, ptid, false);
return ptid;
}
/* Implement the "unset exec-wrapper" command. */
static void
unset_exec_wrapper_command (const char *args, int from_tty)
{
exec_wrapper.clear ();
}
static void
show_startup_with_shell (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty,
struct cmd_list_element *c, const char *value)
{
fprintf_filtered (file,
_("Use of shell to start subprocesses is %s.\n"),
value);
}
void _initialize_fork_child ();
void
_initialize_fork_child ()
{
add_setshow_filename_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, &exec_wrapper, _("\
Set a wrapper for running programs.\n\
The wrapper prepares the system and environment for the new program."),
_("\
Show the wrapper for running programs."), NULL,
NULL, NULL,
&setlist, &showlist);
add_cmd ("exec-wrapper", class_run, unset_exec_wrapper_command,
_("Disable use of an execution wrapper."),
&unsetlist);
add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("startup-with-shell", class_support,
&startup_with_shell, _("\
Set use of shell to start subprocesses. The default is on."), _("\
Show use of shell to start subprocesses."), NULL,
NULL,
show_startup_with_shell,
&setlist, &showlist);
}