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[PATCH 7/9] Remove the target from the event loop while in secondary prompts


If a pagination prompt triggers while the target is running, and the
target exits before the user responded to the pagination query, this
happens:

  Starting program: foo
  ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---No unwaited-for children left.
  Couldn't get registers: No such process.
  Couldn't get registers: No such process.
  Couldn't get registers: No such process.
  (gdb) Couldn't get registers: No such process.
  (gdb)

To reiterate, the user hasn't replied to the pagination prompt above.

A pagination query nests an event loop (in gdb_readline_wrapper).  In
async mode, in addition to stdin and signal handlers, we'll have the
target also installed in the event loop still.  So if the target
stops, that wakes up the nested event loop, handles the event and
generates further output, all while we should be waiting for
pagination confirmation...

I've played with a couple different approaches to fixing this, while
at the same time trying to be not very invasive.  Both revolve around
not listening to target events while in a pagination prompt (doing
anything else I think would be a much bigger change).

The approach taken just removes the target from the event loop while
within gdb_readline_wrapper.  The other approach used gdb_select
directly, with only input_fd installed, but that had the issue that it
didn't handle the async signal handlers, and turned out to be a bit
more code than the first version.

gdb/
2014-07-03  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	PR gdb/17072
	* top.c: Include "inf-loop.h".
	(struct gdb_readline_wrapper_cleanup) <target_is_async_orig>: New
	field.
	(gdb_readline_wrapper_cleanup): Make the target async again, if it
	was async before.
	(gdb_readline_wrapper): Store whether the target is async, and
	make it sync.

gdb/testsuite/
2014-07-03  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	PR gdb/17072
	* gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.c: New file.
	* gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.exp: New file.
---
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.c   | 30 +++++++++
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.exp | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 gdb/top.c                                         | 12 ++++
 3 files changed, 124 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.c
 create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.exp

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.c b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7457b18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.c
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/* This testcase is part of GDB, the GNU debugger.
+
+   Copyright 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   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/>.  */
+
+static void
+after_sleep (void)
+{
+  return; /* after sleep */
+}
+
+int
+main (void)
+{
+  sleep (3);
+  after_sleep ();
+  return 0;
+}
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.exp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3418de8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/paginate-inferior-exit.exp
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# 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/>.
+
+# A collection of tests related to running execution commands directly
+# from the command line, with "-ex".
+
+standard_testfile
+
+if {[build_executable "failed to prepare" $testfile $srcfile debug] == -1} {
+    return -1
+}
+
+# Test paginating while printing about the inferior having exited.
+#
+proc test_paginate_inferior_exited {} {
+    global binfile
+    global gdb_prompt pagination_prompt
+    global inferior_exited_re
+
+    with_test_prefix "paginate" {
+	clean_restart $binfile
+
+	if ![runto_main] then {
+	    fail "Can't run to main"
+	    return 0
+	}
+
+	# Force pagination.
+	gdb_test_no_output "set height 2"
+
+	set test "continue to pagination"
+
+	# Wait for the "Starting program" line, indicating the program
+	# is running.
+	set saw_starting 0
+	gdb_test_multiple "continue" $test {
+	    -re "$pagination_prompt" {
+		if {$saw_starting} {
+		    pass $test
+		} else {
+		    send_gdb "\n"
+		    exp_continue
+		}
+	    }
+	    -re "Continuing" {
+		set saw_starting 1
+		exp_continue
+	    }
+	    -notransfer -re "<return>" {
+		# Otherwise gdb_test_multiple considers this an error.
+		exp_continue
+	    }
+	}
+
+	# We're now stopped in a pagination output while handling a
+	# target event, trying to print about the program exiting.
+	set test "inferior exits normally"
+
+	send_gdb "\n"
+	gdb_test_multiple "" $test {
+	    -re "$inferior_exited_re normally.*$gdb_prompt $" {
+		pass $test
+	    }
+	}
+
+	gdb_test "p 1" " = 1" "GDB accepts further input"
+    }
+}
+
+test_paginate_inferior_exited
diff --git a/gdb/top.c b/gdb/top.c
index 93a4a16..19c88f9 100644
--- a/gdb/top.c
+++ b/gdb/top.c
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
 #include "ui-out.h"
 #include "cli-out.h"
 #include "tracepoint.h"
+#include "inf-loop.h"
 
 extern void initialize_all_files (void);
 
@@ -766,6 +767,9 @@ struct gdb_readline_wrapper_cleanup
   {
     void (*handler_orig) (char *);
     int already_prompted_orig;
+
+    /* Whether the target was async.  */
+    int target_is_async_orig;
   };
 
 static void
@@ -789,6 +793,9 @@ gdb_readline_wrapper_cleanup (void *arg)
   after_char_processing_hook = saved_after_char_processing_hook;
   saved_after_char_processing_hook = NULL;
 
+  if (cleanup->target_is_async_orig)
+    target_async (inferior_event_handler, 0);
+
   xfree (cleanup);
 }
 
@@ -805,8 +812,13 @@ gdb_readline_wrapper (char *prompt)
 
   cleanup->already_prompted_orig = rl_already_prompted;
 
+  cleanup->target_is_async_orig = target_is_async_p ();
+
   back_to = make_cleanup (gdb_readline_wrapper_cleanup, cleanup);
 
+  if (cleanup->target_is_async_orig)
+    target_async (NULL, NULL);
+
   /* Display our prompt and prevent double prompt display.  */
   display_gdb_prompt (prompt);
   rl_already_prompted = 1;
-- 
1.9.3


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