application: Use printerr for runtime errors
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1 /* GLIB - Library of useful routines for C programming
2 * Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball and Josh MacDonald
4 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
6 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
7 * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
12 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
14 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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16 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
17 * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
21 * Modified by the GLib Team and others 1997-2000. See the AUTHORS
22 * file for a list of people on the GLib Team. See the ChangeLog
23 * files for a list of changes. These files are distributed with
24 * GLib at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/.
28 * MT safe ; except for g_on_error_stack_trace, but who wants thread safety
29 * then
32 #include "config.h"
33 #include "glibconfig.h"
35 #include <signal.h>
36 #include <stdarg.h>
37 #include <stdio.h>
38 #include <stdlib.h>
40 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_TIME_H
41 #include <sys/time.h>
42 #endif
43 #include <sys/types.h>
45 #include <time.h>
47 #ifdef G_OS_UNIX
48 #include <unistd.h>
49 #include <sys/wait.h>
50 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H
51 #include <sys/select.h>
52 #endif /* HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H */
53 #endif
55 #include <string.h>
57 #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
58 # define STRICT /* Strict typing, please */
59 # define _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401 /* to get IsDebuggerPresent */
60 # include <windows.h>
61 # undef STRICT
62 #else
63 # include <fcntl.h>
64 #endif
66 #include "gbacktrace.h"
68 #include "gtypes.h"
69 #include "gmain.h"
70 #include "gprintfint.h"
71 #include "gutils.h"
74 #ifndef NO_FD_SET
75 # define SELECT_MASK fd_set
76 #else
77 # if defined(_IBMR2)
78 # define SELECT_MASK void
79 # else
80 # define SELECT_MASK int
81 # endif
82 #endif
85 #ifndef G_OS_WIN32
86 static void stack_trace (char **args);
87 #endif
89 /* People want to hit this from their debugger... */
90 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL volatile gboolean glib_on_error_halt;
91 volatile gboolean glib_on_error_halt = TRUE;
93 /**
94 * g_on_error_query:
95 * @prg_name: the program name, needed by <command>gdb</command>
96 * for the [S]tack trace option. If @prg_name is %NULL, g_get_prgname()
97 * is called to get the program name (which will work correctly if
98 * gdk_init() or gtk_init() has been called)
100 * Prompts the user with
101 * <computeroutput>[E]xit, [H]alt, show [S]tack trace or [P]roceed</computeroutput>.
102 * This function is intended to be used for debugging use only.
103 * The following example shows how it can be used together with
104 * the g_log() functions.
106 * |[
107 * &num;include &lt;glib.h&gt;
109 * static void
110 * log_handler (const gchar *log_domain,
111 * GLogLevelFlags log_level,
112 * const gchar *message,
113 * gpointer user_data)
115 * g_log_default_handler (log_domain, log_level, message, user_data);
117 * g_on_error_query (MY_PROGRAM_NAME);
120 * int
121 * main (int argc, char *argv[])
123 * g_log_set_handler (MY_LOG_DOMAIN,
124 * G_LOG_LEVEL_WARNING |
125 * G_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR |
126 * G_LOG_LEVEL_CRITICAL,
127 * log_handler,
128 * NULL);
129 * /&ast; ... &ast;/
130 * ]|
132 * If [E]xit is selected, the application terminates with a call
133 * to <literal>_exit(0)</literal>.
135 * If [S]tack trace is selected, g_on_error_stack_trace() is called.
136 * This invokes <command>gdb</command>, which attaches to the current
137 * process and shows a stack trace. The prompt is then shown again.
139 * If [P]roceed is selected, the function returns.
141 * This function may cause different actions on non-UNIX platforms.
143 void
144 g_on_error_query (const gchar *prg_name)
146 #ifndef G_OS_WIN32
147 static const gchar * const query1 = "[E]xit, [H]alt";
148 static const gchar * const query2 = ", show [S]tack trace";
149 static const gchar * const query3 = " or [P]roceed";
150 gchar buf[16];
152 if (!prg_name)
153 prg_name = g_get_prgname ();
155 retry:
157 if (prg_name)
158 _g_fprintf (stdout,
159 "%s (pid:%u): %s%s%s: ",
160 prg_name,
161 (guint) getpid (),
162 query1,
163 query2,
164 query3);
165 else
166 _g_fprintf (stdout,
167 "(process:%u): %s%s: ",
168 (guint) getpid (),
169 query1,
170 query3);
171 fflush (stdout);
173 if (isatty(0) && isatty(1))
174 fgets (buf, 8, stdin);
175 else
176 strcpy (buf, "E\n");
178 if ((buf[0] == 'E' || buf[0] == 'e')
179 && buf[1] == '\n')
180 _exit (0);
181 else if ((buf[0] == 'P' || buf[0] == 'p')
182 && buf[1] == '\n')
183 return;
184 else if (prg_name
185 && (buf[0] == 'S' || buf[0] == 's')
186 && buf[1] == '\n')
188 g_on_error_stack_trace (prg_name);
189 goto retry;
191 else if ((buf[0] == 'H' || buf[0] == 'h')
192 && buf[1] == '\n')
194 while (glib_on_error_halt)
196 glib_on_error_halt = TRUE;
197 return;
199 else
200 goto retry;
201 #else
202 if (!prg_name)
203 prg_name = g_get_prgname ();
205 MessageBox (NULL, "g_on_error_query called, program terminating",
206 (prg_name && *prg_name) ? prg_name : NULL,
207 MB_OK|MB_ICONERROR);
208 _exit(0);
209 #endif
213 * g_on_error_stack_trace:
214 * @prg_name: the program name, needed by <command>gdb</command>
215 * for the [S]tack trace option.
217 * Invokes <command>gdb</command>, which attaches to the current
218 * process and shows a stack trace. Called by g_on_error_query()
219 * when the [S]tack trace option is selected. You can get the current
220 * process's "program name" with g_get_prgname(), assuming that you
221 * have called gtk_init() or gdk_init().
223 * This function may cause different actions on non-UNIX platforms.
225 void
226 g_on_error_stack_trace (const gchar *prg_name)
228 #if defined(G_OS_UNIX)
229 pid_t pid;
230 gchar buf[16];
231 gchar *args[4] = { "gdb", NULL, NULL, NULL };
232 int status;
234 if (!prg_name)
235 return;
237 _g_sprintf (buf, "%u", (guint) getpid ());
239 args[1] = (gchar*) prg_name;
240 args[2] = buf;
242 pid = fork ();
243 if (pid == 0)
245 stack_trace (args);
246 _exit (0);
248 else if (pid == (pid_t) -1)
250 perror ("unable to fork gdb");
251 return;
254 waitpid (pid, &status, 0);
255 #else
256 if (IsDebuggerPresent ())
257 G_BREAKPOINT ();
258 else
259 abort ();
260 #endif
263 #ifndef G_OS_WIN32
265 static gboolean stack_trace_done = FALSE;
267 static void
268 stack_trace_sigchld (int signum)
270 stack_trace_done = TRUE;
273 static void
274 stack_trace (char **args)
276 pid_t pid;
277 int in_fd[2];
278 int out_fd[2];
279 SELECT_MASK fdset;
280 SELECT_MASK readset;
281 struct timeval tv;
282 int sel, idx, state;
283 char buffer[256];
284 char c;
286 stack_trace_done = FALSE;
287 signal (SIGCHLD, stack_trace_sigchld);
289 if ((pipe (in_fd) == -1) || (pipe (out_fd) == -1))
291 perror ("unable to open pipe");
292 _exit (0);
295 pid = fork ();
296 if (pid == 0)
298 /* Save stderr for printing failure below */
299 int old_err = dup (2);
300 fcntl (old_err, F_SETFD, fcntl (old_err, F_GETFD) | FD_CLOEXEC);
302 close (0); dup (in_fd[0]); /* set the stdin to the in pipe */
303 close (1); dup (out_fd[1]); /* set the stdout to the out pipe */
304 close (2); dup (out_fd[1]); /* set the stderr to the out pipe */
306 execvp (args[0], args); /* exec gdb */
308 /* Print failure to original stderr */
309 close (2); dup (old_err);
310 perror ("exec gdb failed");
311 _exit (0);
313 else if (pid == (pid_t) -1)
315 perror ("unable to fork");
316 _exit (0);
319 FD_ZERO (&fdset);
320 FD_SET (out_fd[0], &fdset);
322 write (in_fd[1], "backtrace\n", 10);
323 write (in_fd[1], "p x = 0\n", 8);
324 write (in_fd[1], "quit\n", 5);
326 idx = 0;
327 state = 0;
329 while (1)
331 readset = fdset;
332 tv.tv_sec = 1;
333 tv.tv_usec = 0;
335 sel = select (FD_SETSIZE, &readset, NULL, NULL, &tv);
336 if (sel == -1)
337 break;
339 if ((sel > 0) && (FD_ISSET (out_fd[0], &readset)))
341 if (read (out_fd[0], &c, 1))
343 switch (state)
345 case 0:
346 if (c == '#')
348 state = 1;
349 idx = 0;
350 buffer[idx++] = c;
352 break;
353 case 1:
354 buffer[idx++] = c;
355 if ((c == '\n') || (c == '\r'))
357 buffer[idx] = 0;
358 _g_fprintf (stdout, "%s", buffer);
359 state = 0;
360 idx = 0;
362 break;
363 default:
364 break;
368 else if (stack_trace_done)
369 break;
372 close (in_fd[0]);
373 close (in_fd[1]);
374 close (out_fd[0]);
375 close (out_fd[1]);
376 _exit (0);
379 #endif /* !G_OS_WIN32 */