[Converted from Gnats 2320] I'm having problems getting GDB to not pass SIGINT to my program. In my main thread I do a sigwait for SIGINT. When I'm debugging, while gdb is running I may want to break gdb to set breakpoints or so, then I hit Ctrl-C (send SIGINT) but gdb does not break, instead SIGINT is passed to my program that gracefully terminates and gdb prints "Program exited normally". Of course "info handle" shows that SIGINT should not be being passed to my program: (gdb) info handle SIGINT Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description SIGINT Yes Yes No Interrupt GDB does not even print SIGINT signal delivery when I think it should. Please check: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2006-04/msg00010.html http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9039 Release: GNU gdb 6.5 Environment: GNU/Linux 2.6.20.1 #3 PREEMPT i686 gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 20060724 (prerelease) (4.1.1-3mdk) How-To-Repeat: Compile attached "test_gdb.cpp" file and run it under gdb. While running hit Ctrl+C to interrupt GDB. Program will terminate so no chance to debug it any more.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> To: jordiblasi@gmail.com Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: threads/2320: When using "sigwait" GDB doesn't trap SIGINT. Ctrl+C terminates program when should break gdb. Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:32:44 -0400 On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:53:13AM -0000, jordiblasi@gmail.com wrote: > I'm having problems getting GDB to not pass SIGINT to my program. In > my main thread I do a sigwait for SIGINT. When I'm debugging, while > gdb is running I may want to break gdb to set breakpoints or so, > then I hit Ctrl-C (send SIGINT) but gdb does not break, instead > SIGINT is passed to my program that gracefully terminates and gdb > prints "Program exited normally". Thanks for the clear report and test case. I discussed this with Roland McGrath in the bugzilla.kernel.org entry you linked to; our conclusion was that the kernel is correct to not report the SIGINT in this case. Of course that's not the useful behavior for GDB. I'm not planning to work on this right now, but here's some notes on a possible solution if anyone else wants to. - Define a new PTRACE_SETOPTIONS bit to enable the extra reporting. - Report the signal as a special event, using a new PTRACE_EVENT_FOO code in the high half-word of the wait status. - Adjust GDB to set the new options bit when it sets other options. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
Is this bug likely to be revisited or resolved in the short-term? Is it really ASSIGNED to someone.
No, it is not really assigned. That seems to be some sort of bug in our bugzilla installation. AFAIK nobody is actively working on this.
*** Bug 9468 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
See also bug #15250. However it seems options may be limited if gdb and the inferior are sharing a terminal.
The master branch has been updated by Pedro Alves <palves@sourceware.org>: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=e671cd59d74cec9f53e110ce887128d1eeadb7f2 commit e671cd59d74cec9f53e110ce887128d1eeadb7f2 Author: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Date: Tue Jan 30 14:23:51 2018 +0000 Per-inferior target_terminal state, fix PR gdb/13211, more In my multi-target branch I ran into problems with GDB's terminal handling that exist in master as well, with multi-inferior debugging. This patch adds a testcase for said problems (gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp), fixes the problems, fixes PR gdb/13211 as well (and adds a testcase for that too, gdb.base/interrupt-daemon.exp). The basis of the problem I ran into is the following. Consider a scenario where you have: - inferior 1 - started with "attach", process is running on some other terminal. - inferior 2 - started with "run", process is sharing gdb's terminal. In this scenario, when you stop/resume both inferiors, you want GDB to save/restore the terminal settings of inferior 2, the one that is sharing GDB's terminal. I.e., you want inferior 2 to "own" the terminal (in target_terminal::is_ours/target_terminal::is_inferior sense). Unfortunately, that's not what you get currently. Because GDB doesn't know whether an attached inferior is actually sharing GDB's terminal, it tries to save/restore its settings anyway, ignoring errors. In this case, this is pointless, because inferior 1 is running on a different terminal, but GDB doesn't know better. And then, because it is only possible to have the terminal settings of a single inferior be in effect at a time, or make one inferior/pgrp be the terminal's foreground pgrp (aka, only one inferior can "own" the terminal, ignoring fork children here), if GDB happens to try to restore the terminal settings of inferior 1 first, then GDB never restores the terminal settings of inferior 2. This patch fixes that and a few things more along the way: - Moves enum target_terminal::terminal_state out of the target_terminal class (it's currently private) and makes it a scoped enum so that it can be easily used elsewhere. - Replaces the inflow.c:terminal_is_ours boolean with a target_terminal_state variable. This allows distinguishing is_ours and is_ours_for_output states. This allows finally making child_terminal_ours_1 do something with its "output_only" parameter. - Makes each inferior have its own copy of the is_ours/is_ours_for_output/is_inferior state. - Adds a way for GDB to tell whether the inferior is sharing GDB's terminal. Works best on Linux and Solaris; the fallback works just as well as currently. - With that, we can remove the inf->attach_flag tests from child_terminal_inferior/child_terminal_ours. - Currently target_ops.to_ours is responsible for both saving the current inferior's terminal state, and restoring gdb's state. Because each inferior has its own terminal state (possibly handled by different targets in a multi-target world, even), we need to split the inferior-saving part from the gdb-restoring part. The patch adds a new target_ops.to_save_inferior target method for that. - Adds a new target_terminal::save_inferior() function, so that sequences like: scoped_restore_terminal_state save_state; target_terminal::ours_for_output (); ... restore back inferiors that were target_terminal_state::is_inferior before back to is_inferior, and leaves inferiors that were is_ours alone. - Along the way, this adds a default implementation of target_pass_ctrlc to inflow.c (for inf-child.c), that handles passing the Ctrl-C to a process running on GDB's terminal or to some other process otherwise. - Similarly, adds a new target default implementation of target_interrupt, for the "interrupt" command. The current implementation of this hook in inf-ptrace.c kills the whole process group, but that's incorrect/undesirable because we may not be attached to all processes in the process group. And also, it's incorrect because inferior_process_group() doesn't really return the inferior's real process group id if the inferior is not a process group leader... This is the cause of PR gdb/13211 [1], which this patch fixes. While at it, that target method's "ptid" parameter is eliminated, because it's not really used. - A new test is included that exercises and fixes PR gdb/13211, and also fixes a GDB issue reported on stackoverflow that I ran into while working on this [2]. The problem is similar to PR gdb/13211, except that it also triggers with Ctrl-C. When debugging a daemon (i.e., a process that disconnects from the controlling terminal and is not a process group leader, then Ctrl-C doesn't work, you just can't interrupt the inferior at all, resulting in a hung debug session. The problem is that since the inferior is no longer associated with gdb's session / controlling terminal, then trying to put the inferior in the foreground fails. And so Ctrl-C never reaches the inferior directly. pass_signal is only used when the inferior is attached, but that is not the case here. This is fixed by the new child_pass_ctrlc. Without the fix, the new interrupt-daemon.exp testcase fails with timeout waiting for a SIGINT that never arrives. [1] PR gdb/13211 - Async / Process group and interrupt not working https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13211 [2] GDB not reacting Ctrl-C when after fork() and setsid() https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46101292/gdb-not-reacting-ctrl-c-when-after-fork-and-setsid Note this patch does _not_ fix: - PR gdb/14559 - The 'interrupt' command does not work if sigwait is in use https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14559 - PR gdb/9425 - When using "sigwait" GDB doesn't trap SIGINT. Ctrl+C terminates program when should break gdb. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9425 The only way to fix that that I know of (without changing the kernel) is to make GDB put inferiors in a separate session (create a pseudo-tty master/slave pair, make the inferior run with the slave as its terminal, and have gdb pump output/input on the master end). gdb/ChangeLog: 2018-01-30 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> PR gdb/13211 * config.in, configure: Regenerate. * configure.ac: Check for getpgid. * go32-nat.c (go32_pass_ctrlc): New. (go32_target): Install it. * inf-child.c (inf_child_target): Install child_terminal_save_inferior, child_pass_ctrlc and child_interrupt. * inf-ptrace.c (inf_ptrace_interrupt): Delete. (inf_ptrace_target): No longer install it. * infcmd.c (interrupt_target_1): Adjust. * inferior.h (child_terminal_save_inferior, child_pass_ctrlc) (child_interrupt): Declare. (inferior::terminal_state): New. * inflow.c (struct terminal_info): Update comments. (inferior_process_group): Delete. (terminal_is_ours): Delete. (gdb_tty_state): New. (child_terminal_init): Adjust. (is_gdb_terminal, sharing_input_terminal_1) (sharing_input_terminal): New functions. (child_terminal_inferior): Adjust. Use sharing_input_terminal. Set the process's actual process group in the foreground if possible. Handle is_ours_for_output/is_ours distinction. Don't mark terminal as the inferior's if not sharing GDB's terminal. Don't check attach_flag. (child_terminal_ours_for_output, child_terminal_ours): Adjust to pass down a target_terminal_state. (child_terminal_save_inferior): New, factored out from ... (child_terminal_ours_1): ... this. Handle target_terminal_state::is_ours_for_output. (child_interrupt, child_pass_ctrlc): New. (inflow_inferior_exit): Clear the inferior's terminal_state. (copy_terminal_info): Copy the inferior's terminal state. (_initialize_inflow): Remove reference to terminal_is_ours. * inflow.h (inferior_process_group): Delete. * nto-procfs.c (nto_handle_sigint, procfs_interrupt): Adjust. * procfs.c (procfs_target): Don't install procfs_interrupt. (procfs_interrupt): Delete. * remote.c (remote_serial_quit_handler): Adjust. (remote_interrupt): Remove ptid parameter. Adjust. * target-delegates.c: Regenerate. * target.c: Include "terminal.h". (target_terminal::terminal_state): Rename to ... (target_terminal::m_terminal_state): ... this. (target_terminal::init): Adjust. (target_terminal::inferior): Adjust to per-inferior terminal_state. (target_terminal::restore_inferior, target_terminal_is_ours_kind): New. (target_terminal::ours, target_terminal::ours_for_output): Use target_terminal_is_ours_kind. (target_interrupt): Remove ptid parameter. Adjust. (default_target_pass_ctrlc): Adjust. * target.h (target_ops::to_terminal_save_inferior): New field. (target_ops::to_interrupt): Remove ptid_t parameter. (target_interrupt): Remove ptid_t parameter. Update comment. (target_pass_ctrlc): Update comment. * target/target.h (target_terminal_state): New scoped enum, factored out of ... (target_terminal::terminal_state): ... here. (target_terminal::inferior): Update comments. (target_terminal::restore_inferior): New. (target_terminal::is_inferior, target_terminal::is_ours) (target_terminal::is_ours_for_output): Adjust. (target_terminal::scoped_restore_terminal_state): Adjust to rename, and call restore_inferior() instead of inferior(). (target_terminal::scoped_restore_terminal_state::m_state): Change type. (target_terminal::terminal_state): Rename to ... (target_terminal::m_terminal_state): ... this and change type. gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog: 2018-01-30 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> PR gdb/13211 * target.c (target_terminal::terminal_state): Rename to ... (target_terminal::m_terminal_state): ... this. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: 2018-01-30 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> PR gdb/13211 * gdb.base/interrupt-daemon.c: New. * gdb.base/interrupt-daemon.exp: New. * gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.c: New. * gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp: New.
*** Bug 10123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 8746 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***