[PATCH] Better handling of realpath() failure in windows_make_so() on Cygwin

[PATCH] Better handling of realpath() failure in windows_make_so() on Cygwin

[Jon Turney]

It seems Cygwin's realpath() can fail on certain DLLs (apparently some
AV software prevent it working on it's DLLs; See [1], [2]).  Warn rather
than stopping with an error if that occurs.

Based on an original patch from Tim Chick.

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00401.html
[2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-11/msg00353.html

gdb/ChangeLog:

2016-01-20  Jon Turney  <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>

	* windows-nat.c (windows_make_so): Warn rather than stopping with
	an error if realpath() fails.
---

Notes:
    A more complex version of this patch was previously submitted as [1],
    the discussion of which wandered off somewhere unproductive.
    
    [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-01/msg00478.html

 gdb/ChangeLog     | 5 +++++
 gdb/windows-nat.c | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gdb/windows-nat.c b/gdb/windows-nat.c
index be5955d379..2fcafda199 100644
--- a/gdb/windows-nat.c
+++ b/gdb/windows-nat.c
@@ -758,7 +758,10 @@ windows_make_so (const char *name, LPVOID load_addr)
 	  free (rname);
 	}
       else
-	error (_("dll path too long"));
+	{
+	  warning (_("dll path for \"%s\" too long or inaccessible"), name);
+	  strcpy (so->so_name, so->so_original_name);
+	}
     }
   /* Record cygwin1.dll .text start/end.  */
   p = strchr (so->so_name, '\0') - (sizeof ("/cygwin1.dll") - 1);
-- 
2.21.0

Re: [PATCH] Better handling of realpath() failure in windows_make_so() on Cygwin

[Jon Turney]

On 16/01/2020 17:27, Jon Turney wrote:
> It seems Cygwin's realpath() can fail on certain DLLs (apparently some
> AV software prevent it working on it's DLLs; See [1], [2]).  Warn rather
> than stopping with an error if that occurs.

Ping.

Re: [PATCH] Better handling of realpath() failure in windows_make_so() on Cygwin

[Simon Marchi]

On 2020-04-09 11:09 a.m., Jon Turney wrote:
> On 16/01/2020 17:27, Jon Turney wrote:
>> It seems Cygwin's realpath() can fail on certain DLLs (apparently some
>> AV software prevent it working on it's DLLs; See [1], [2]).  Warn rather
>> than stopping with an error if that occurs.
> 
> Ping.
> 

Thanks, this is OK.

Simon