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gdb/darwin: remove not-so-harmless spurious call to wait4
As seen in https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24069 this code will typically wait4() a second time on the same process that was already wait4()'d a few lines above. While this used to be harmless/idempotent (when we assumed that the process already exited), this now causes a deadlock in the WIFSTOPPED case. The early (~2019) history of bug #24069 cautiously suggests to use WNOHANG instead of outright deleting the call. However, tests on the current version of Darwin (Big Sur) demonstrate that gdb runs just fine without a redundant call to wait4(), as would be expected. Notwithstanding the debatable value of conserving bug compatibility with an OS release that is more than a decade old, there is scant evidence of what that double-wait4() was supposed to achieve in the first place - A cursory investigation with `git blame` pinpoints commitsbb00b29d78anda80b95ba67from the 2008-2009 era, but fails to answer the "why" question conclusively. Co-Authored-By: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Change-Id: Id4e4415d66d6ff6b3552b60d761693f17015e4a0
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@@ -1113,9 +1113,6 @@ darwin_nat_target::decode_message (mach_msg_header_t *hdr,
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inferior_debug (4, _("darwin_wait: pid=%d exit, status=0x%x\n"),
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res_pid, wstatus);
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/* Looks necessary on Leopard and harmless... */
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wait4 (inf->pid, &wstatus, 0, NULL);
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return ptid_t (inf->pid);
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}
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else
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