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"Invalid parameter passed to C runtime function" from MinGW GDB
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 18:46:17 +0200
- Subject: "Invalid parameter passed to C runtime function" from MinGW GDB
While debugging the issue with internal_error when stepping out of
'main', I noticed that GDB emits the above warning many times. It
turns out the warning is triggered by this:
common/filestuff.c:
gdb_file_up
gdb_fopen_cloexec (const char *filename, const char *opentype)
{
FILE *result;
/* Probe for "e" support once. But, if we can tell the operating
system doesn't know about close on exec mode "e" without probing,
skip it. E.g., the Windows runtime issues an "Invalid parameter
passed to C runtime function" OutputDebugString warning for
unknown modes. Assume that if O_CLOEXEC is zero, then "e" isn't
supported. */
static int fopen_e_ever_failed_einval = O_CLOEXEC == 0; <<<<<<<<<<<<
if (!fopen_e_ever_failed_einval)
{
char *copy;
copy = (char *) alloca (strlen (opentype) + 2);
strcpy (copy, opentype);
/* This is a glibc extension but we try it unconditionally on
this path. */
strcat (copy, "e");
result = fopen (filename, copy); <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
MinGW doesn't support the "e" mode. As you see, we try to be smart
about that, but that trick no longer works, because Gnulib does this:
build-gnulib/import/fcntl.h:
#if !defined O_CLOEXEC && defined O_NOINHERIT
/* Mingw spells it 'O_NOINHERIT'. */
# define O_CLOEXEC O_NOINHERIT
#endif
and O_CLOEXEC is no longer zero.
I propose to fix this as below. Any objections to committing this to
master (with a suitable ChangeLog, of course)?
diff --git a/gdb/common/filestuff.c b/gdb/common/filestuff.c
index d4bd1a8..3fa035a 100644
--- a/gdb/common/filestuff.c
+++ b/gdb/common/filestuff.c
@@ -300,8 +300,10 @@ gdb_fopen_cloexec (const char *filename, const char *opentype)
skip it. E.g., the Windows runtime issues an "Invalid parameter
passed to C runtime function" OutputDebugString warning for
unknown modes. Assume that if O_CLOEXEC is zero, then "e" isn't
- supported. */
- static int fopen_e_ever_failed_einval = O_CLOEXEC == 0;
+ supported. On MinGW, O_CLOEXEC is an alias of O_NOINHERIT, and
+ "e" isn't supported. */
+ static int fopen_e_ever_failed_einval =
+ O_CLOEXEC == 0 || O_CLOEXEC == O_NOINHERIT;
if (!fopen_e_ever_failed_einval)
{