On <=RHEL6 hosts Fedora/RHEL GDB started to 'kill -STOP' all processes it
detached. Even those not originally T-stopped. This is a Fedora-specific
patch which is based on upstream GDB's PROC_STATE_STOPPED state.
I believe (I did not verify) this patch did regress it:
commit
d617208bb06bd461b52ce041d89f7127e3044762
Author: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Date: Mon Jul 25 12:42:17 2016 +0100
linux-procfs: Introduce enum proc_state
As originally there was strstr() but now there is strcmp() and so the missing
trailing '\n' no longer matches.
The Bug was found by Michal Kolar.
Reproducibility:
$ gdb -p $PID
(gdb) quit
$ ...
Actual results:
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RHEL6.9 x86_64 # scl enable devtoolset-7 bash
RHEL6.9 x86_64 # which gdb
/opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/bin/gdb
RHEL6.9 x86_64 # ./testcase.sh
24737 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sleep 4
24737 pts/0 T+ 0:00 /bin/sleep 4
RHEL6.9 x86_64 #
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Expected results:
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RHEL6.9 x86_64 # which gdb
/usr/bin/gdb
RHEL6.9 x86_64 # ./testcase.sh
24708 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sleep 4
24708 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sleep 4
./testcase.sh: line 20: kill: (24708) - No such process
RHEL6.9 x86_64 #
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gdb/ChangeLog
2017-09-01 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
PR gdb/22046
* nat/linux-procfs.c (parse_proc_status_state): Fix PROC_STATE_STOPPED
detection.
+2017-09-01 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+
+ PR gdb/22046
+ * nat/linux-procfs.c (parse_proc_status_state): Fix PROC_STATE_STOPPED
+ detection.
+
2017-08-31 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Add entry mentioning new support
return PROC_STATE_TRACING_STOP;
case 'T':
/* Before Linux 2.6.33, tracing stop used uppercase T. */
- if (strcmp (state, "T (tracing stop)") == 0)
- return PROC_STATE_TRACING_STOP;
- else
+ if (strcmp (state, "T (stopped)\n") == 0)
return PROC_STATE_STOPPED;
+ else /* "T (tracing stop)\n" */
+ return PROC_STATE_TRACING_STOP;
case 'X':
return PROC_STATE_DEAD;
case 'Z':