From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn@posteo.de>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] [PR gdbserver/25893]: Use construct_inferior_arguments which handles special chars
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 20:54:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f61a671-760d-6556-7895-090de6f5a1bf@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75e9c38c-9e19-4c2a-7512-47f74890eb3e@simark.ca>
On 2020-05-12 8:52 p.m., Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2020-05-12 11:42 a.m., Michael Weghorn via Gdb-patches wrote:
>> Use the construct_inferior_arguments function instead of
>> stringify_argv to construct a string from the program
>> arguments in those places where that one is then passed
>> to fork_inferior (linux-low, lyn-low), since
>> construct_inferior_arguments properly takes care of
>> special characters, while stringify_argv does not.
>> Using construct_inferior_arguments seems "natural", since its
>> documentation also mentions that it "does the
>> same shell processing as fork_inferior".
>>
>> Since construct_inferior_args has been extended to do
>> proper quoting for Windows shells in commit
>> 5d60742e2dd3c9b475dce54b56043a358751bbb8
>> ("Fix quoting of special characters for the MinGW build.",
>> 2012-06-12), use it for the Windows case as well.
>> (I could not test that case myself, though.)
>>
>> Adapt handling of empty args in function 'handle_v_run'
>> in gdbserver/server.cc to just insert an empty string
>> for an empty arg, since that one is now properly handled
>> in 'construct_inferior_arguments' already (and inserting
>> a "''" string in 'handle_v_run' would otherwise
>> cause that one to be treated as a string literally
>> containing two quote characters, which
>> 'construct_inferior_args' would preserve by adding
>> extra escaping).
>>
>> This makes gdbserver properly handle program args containing special
>> characters (like spaces), e.g. (example from PR25893)
>>
>> $ gdbserver localhost:50505 myprogram "hello world"
>>
>> now properly handles "hello world" as a single arg, not two separate
>> ones ("hello", "world").
>>
>> 2020-05-12 Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn@posteo.de>
>>
>> PR gdbserver/25893
>> * linux-low.cc (linux_process_target::create_inferior),
>> lynx-low.cc (lynx_process_target::create_inferior),
>> win32-low.cc (win32_process_target::create_inferior): Use
>> construct_inferior_arguments instead of stringify_argv
>> to get string representation which properly escapes
>> special characters.
>> * server.cc (handle_v_run): Just pass empty program arg
>> as such, since any further processing is now handled via
>> construct_inferior_arguments
>
> This patch LGTM.
>
> Simon
>
I forgot to mention, I built this on mingw-w64 and confirmed that it
fixed the same problem. It also handles empty arguments correctly, both
on gdbserver's command line and "run".
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to run my test case, but that's because of
separate issues.
Simon
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Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-29 11:16 Patches for PR 25893 "gdbserver incorrectly handles program args containing space" Michael Weghorn
2020-04-29 11:16 ` [PATCH 0/4] gdb: Move construct_inferior_arguments to gdbsupport Michael Weghorn
2020-05-07 19:31 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-12 15:50 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-04-29 11:16 ` [PATCH 1/4] gdbsupport: Extend construct_inferior_arguments to allow handling all stringify_args cases Michael Weghorn
2020-04-29 15:25 ` Christian Biesinger
2020-04-29 15:45 ` Christian Biesinger
2020-05-07 19:29 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-12 15:48 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 16:11 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-12 16:24 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-04-30 6:02 ` [PATCH v2 " Michael Weghorn
2020-05-07 19:49 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-12 15:57 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-04-29 11:16 ` [PATCH 2/4] gdbserver: Don't add extra NULL to program args Michael Weghorn
2020-05-07 19:54 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-12 16:00 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-04-29 11:16 ` [PATCH 3/4] [PR gdbserver/25893]: Use construct_inferior_arguments which handles special chars Michael Weghorn
2020-05-07 20:09 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-07 22:09 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-12 16:10 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 16:07 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 17:37 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-13 1:59 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-13 9:51 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-04-29 11:16 ` [PATCH 4/4] [PR gdbserver/25893]: Add gdbserver test for argument with space in it Michael Weghorn
2020-05-07 22:15 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-10 15:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb/testsuite: support passing inferior arguments with native-gdbserver board Simon Marchi
2020-05-10 15:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] gdb/testsuite: add inferior arguments test Simon Marchi
2020-05-15 20:07 ` Pedro Alves
2020-05-19 17:13 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-20 16:28 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-15 20:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb/testsuite: support passing inferior arguments with native-gdbserver board Pedro Alves
2020-05-10 16:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] [PR gdbserver/25893]: Add gdbserver test for argument with space in it Simon Marchi
2020-05-11 14:33 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-11 15:04 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-12 16:20 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 16:50 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-13 9:55 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-04-29 15:27 ` Patches for PR 25893 "gdbserver incorrectly handles program args containing space" Simon Marchi
2020-04-30 6:03 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 15:42 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] gdb: Move construct_inferior_arguments to gdbsupport Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 15:42 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] gdbsupport: Adapt construct_inferior_arguments Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 17:53 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-13 9:56 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 15:42 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] gdbserver: Don't add extra NULL to program args Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 15:42 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] nto_process_target::create_inferior: Pass args as char ** Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 18:34 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-13 9:56 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 15:42 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] [PR gdbserver/25893]: Use construct_inferior_arguments which handles special chars Michael Weghorn
2020-05-13 0:52 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-13 0:54 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2020-05-13 9:58 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-12 15:42 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] gdbsupport: Drop now unused function 'stringify_argv' Michael Weghorn
2020-05-13 0:52 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-13 9:47 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] gdb: Move construct_inferior_arguments to gdbsupport Michael Weghorn
2020-05-13 9:47 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] gdbsupport: Adapt construct_inferior_arguments Michael Weghorn
2020-05-13 9:47 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] gdbsupport: Let construct_inferior_arguments take gdb::array_view param Michael Weghorn
2020-05-13 9:47 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] gdbserver: Don't add extra NULL to program args Michael Weghorn
2020-05-13 9:47 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] nto_process_target::create_inferior: Pass args as char ** Michael Weghorn
2020-05-13 9:47 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] [PR gdbserver/25893]: Use construct_inferior_arguments which handles special chars Michael Weghorn
2020-05-13 9:47 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] gdbsupport: Drop now unused function 'stringify_argv' Michael Weghorn
2020-05-13 9:47 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] gdb/testsuite: support passing inferior arguments with native-gdbserver board Michael Weghorn
2020-05-15 17:29 ` Tom de Vries
2020-05-19 17:11 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-19 17:22 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-19 18:46 ` Tom de Vries
2020-05-25 15:14 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-13 9:47 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] gdb/testsuite: add inferior arguments test Michael Weghorn
2020-05-13 14:39 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] gdb: Move construct_inferior_arguments to gdbsupport Simon Marchi
2020-05-13 15:01 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-13 15:05 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-20 16:37 ` Michael Weghorn
2020-05-20 16:40 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-20 16:21 ` [PATCH v5 " Michael Weghorn
2020-05-20 16:21 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] gdbsupport: Adapt construct_inferior_arguments Michael Weghorn
2020-05-20 16:21 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] gdbsupport: Let construct_inferior_arguments take gdb::array_view param Michael Weghorn
2020-05-20 16:21 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] gdbserver: Don't add extra NULL to program args Michael Weghorn
2020-05-20 16:21 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] nto_process_target::create_inferior: Pass args as char ** Michael Weghorn
2020-05-20 16:21 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] [PR gdbserver/25893]: Use construct_inferior_arguments which handles special chars Michael Weghorn
2020-05-20 16:21 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] gdbsupport: Drop now unused function 'stringify_argv' Michael Weghorn
2020-05-20 16:21 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] gdb/testsuite: support passing inferior arguments with native-gdbserver board Michael Weghorn
2020-05-20 16:21 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] gdb/testsuite: add inferior arguments test Michael Weghorn
2020-05-25 15:42 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] gdb: Move construct_inferior_arguments to gdbsupport Simon Marchi
2020-05-26 6:17 ` Michael Weghorn
2021-09-28 14:33 ` Simon Marchi
2021-09-29 5:53 ` Michael Weghorn
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