gdb: allow core file containing special characters on the command line

After the commit:

  commit 03ad29c86c
  Date:   Wed Jun 19 11:14:08 2024 +0100

      gdb: 'target ...' commands now expect quoted/escaped filenames

it was no longer possible to pass GDB the name of a core file
containing any special characters (white space or quote characters) on
the command line.  For example:

  $ gdb -c /tmp/core\ file.core
  Junk after filename "/tmp/core": file.core
  (gdb)

The problem is that the above commit changed the 'target core' command
to expect quoted filenames, so before the above commit a user could
write:

  (gdb) target core /tmp/core file.core
  [New LWP 2345783]
  Core was generated by `./mkcore'.
  Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  #0  0x0000000000401111 in ?? ()
  (gdb)

But after the above commit the user must write:

  (gdb) target core /tmp/core\ file.core

or

  (gdb) target core "/tmp/core file.core"

This is part of a move to make GDB's filename argument handling
consistent.

Anyway, the problem with the '-c' command line flag is that it
forwards the filename unmodified through to the 'core-file' command,
which in turn forwards to the 'target core' command.

So when the user, at a shell writes:

  $ gdb -c "core file.core"

this arrives in GDB as the unquoted string 'core file.core' (without
the single quotes).  GDB then forwards this to the 'core-file'
command as if the user had written this at a GDB prompt:

  (gdb) core-file core file.core

Which then fails to parse due to the unquoted white space between
'core' and 'file.core'.

The solution I propose is to escape any special characters in the core
file name passed from the command line before calling 'core-file'
command from main.c.

I've updated the corefile.exp test to include a test for passing a
core file containing a white space character.  While I was at it I've
modernised the part of corefile.exp that I was touching.
This commit is contained in:
Andrew Burgess
2024-10-26 16:15:27 +01:00
parent cced05faea
commit d9df3857da
4 changed files with 88 additions and 71 deletions

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@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ char *savestring (const char *ptr, size_t len);
std::string extract_string_maybe_quoted (const char **arg);
/* Return a copy of STR, but with any white space, single quote, or
double quote characters escaped with a backslash. */
std::string make_quoted_string (const char *str);
/* The strerror() function can return NULL for errno values that are
out of range. Provide a "safe" version that always returns a
printable string. This version is also thread-safe. */