RFA: patch to infptrace.c

[J. Johnston]

The attached patch has been checked in.  Thanks.

-- Jeff J.

2003-05-22  Jeff Johnston  <jjohnstn@redhat.com>

         * infptrace.c (detach): Call print_sys_errmsg rather than
         perror_with_name to issue warning message when errno is non-zero
         after calling ptrace detach.



Kevin Buettner wrote:
> On May 21,  7:11pm, J. Johnston wrote:
> 
> 
>>Kevin Buettner wrote:
>>
>>>On May 21,  6:31pm, J. Johnston wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>The attached patch changes the ptrace detach call to not perform error handling
>>>>when an error occurs in detach.  Without this patch, an error in detach stops gdb
>>>
>>>>from exiting.  The error keeps returning to the command line over and over again.
>>>
>>>>I thought I had fixed this earlier by adding a check for errno != ESRCH, but it
>>>>appears there are other scenarios that may occur.
>>>
>>>
>>>Which other errno values are tripping it up?
>>>
>>
>>A bugzilla bug has been opened on a Red Hat kernel with patches that was
>>causing an EPERM to show up.
>>
>>
>>>Assuming that it's a good idea to emit only a warning, do we still need
>>>the errno != ESRCH check?
>>
>>It isn't "needed".  It was meant to not issue any complaint if the process had
>>been killed externally.  I can remove the check if it is preferred.
> 
> 
> If the process had been killed externally and the gdb user was unaware
> of it, then I think this information would be quite useful.  It's
> certainly better (less surprising) to print a message than to detach
> expecting the process to continue on it's own only to find it
> mysteriously gone.  It won't really help to tell the user why it's
> gone, but the user will at least know that it happened before the
> detach or possibly as a result of something having gone wrong with the
> detach.
> 
> Anyway, I'm all for your patch going in so long as the ESRCH check is
> removed.  It doesn't make any sense to put the GDB user in limbo as
> a result of being unable to detach successfully.  When I've encountered
> this problem in the past, there didn't seem to be anything that could
> be done (as a user) to correct the problem so that the detach would
> succeed.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
>>>>Ok to commit?
>>>>
>>>>-- Jeff J.
>>>>
>>>>2003-05-21  Jeff Johnston  <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
>>>>
>>>>	* infptrace.c (detach): Call print_sys_errmsg when an error occurs
>>>>	instead of perror_with_name.
>>>>
>>>>[ text/plain ] :
>>>>
>>>>Index: infptrace.c
>>>>===================================================================
>>>>RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/infptrace.c,v
>>>>retrieving revision 1.25
>>>>diff -u -p -r1.25 infptrace.c
>>>>--- infptrace.c	8 May 2003 20:52:47 -0000	1.25
>>>>+++ infptrace.c	21 May 2003 21:39:56 -0000
>>>>@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ detach (int signal)
>>>>  ptrace (PT_DETACH, PIDGET (inferior_ptid), (PTRACE_ARG3_TYPE) 1,
>>>>          signal);
>>>>  if (errno && errno != ESRCH)
>>>>-    perror_with_name ("ptrace");
>>>>+    print_sys_errmsg ("ptrace", errno);
>>>>  attach_flag = 0;
>>>>}
>>>>#endif /* ATTACH_DETACH */
>>>
>>>
>>-- End of excerpt from J. Johnston
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