[PATCH v2 1/2] Introduce wrapper for CreateProcess

[Jon Turney]

On 11/03/2022 18:57, Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches wrote:
> This is a small refactoring that introduces a wrapper for the Windows
> CreateProcess function.  This is done to make the next patch a bit
> simpler.
> ---
>   gdb/nat/windows-nat.c  | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   gdb/nat/windows-nat.h  | 15 +++++++++++++
>   gdb/windows-nat.c      | 22 ++++--------------
>   gdbserver/win32-low.cc |  5 +----
>   4 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/nat/windows-nat.c b/gdb/nat/windows-nat.c
> index 21445f3f859..fdfc8e702f8 100644
> --- a/gdb/nat/windows-nat.c
> +++ b/gdb/nat/windows-nat.c
> @@ -579,6 +579,57 @@ wait_for_debug_event (DEBUG_EVENT *event, DWORD timeout)
[...]
> +#ifdef __CYGWIN__
> +
> +/* See nat/windows-nat.h.  */
> +
> +BOOL
> +create_process (const wchar_t *image, wchar_t *command_line, DWORD flags,
> +		void *environment, const wchar_t *cur_dir,
> +		STARTUPINFOW *startup_info,
> +		PROCESS_INFORMATION *process_info);
> +{

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> +  return create_process_wrapper (CreateProcessW, image, command_line, flags,
> +				 environment, cur_dir,
> +				 startup_info, process_info);
> +}
> +
> +#endif /* __CYGWIN__ */
[...]
> diff --git a/gdb/windows-nat.c b/gdb/windows-nat.c
> index 81e26fe4759..251876c7022 100644
> --- a/gdb/windows-nat.c
> +++ b/gdb/windows-nat.c
>     windows_init_thread_list ();
> -  ret = CreateProcess (0,
> -		       args,	/* command line */
> -		       NULL,	/* Security */
> -		       NULL,	/* thread */
> -		       TRUE,	/* inherit handles */
> -		       flags,	/* start flags */
> -		       w32_env,	/* environment */
> -		       inferior_cwd != NULL ? infcwd : NULL, /* current
> -								directory */
> -		       &si,
> -		       &pi);
> +  ret = create_process (args, flags, w32_env,
> +			inferior_cwd != nullptr ? infcwd : nullptr,
> +			&si, &pi);

This use of create_process() under CYGWIN has one less argument that the 
  prototype as the NULL program argument was dropped.

I pushed a patch to fix these cygwin build issues as trivial.