On async targets, a synchronous attach is done like this:
#1 - target_attach is called (PTRACE_ATTACH is issued)
#2 - a continuation is installed
#3 - we go back to the event loop
#4 - target reports stop (SIGSTOP), event loop wakes up, and
attach continuation is called
#5 - among other things, the continuation calls
target_terminal_inferior, which removes stdin from the event
loop
Note that in #3, GDB is still processing user input. If the user is
fast enough, e.g., with something like:
echo -e "attach PID\nset xxx=1" | gdb
... then the "set" command is processed before the attach completes.
We get worse behavior even, if input is a tty and therefore
readline/editing is enabled, with e.g.,:
(gdb) attach PID\nset xxx=1
we then crash readline/gdb, with:
Attaching to program: attach-wait-input, process 14537
readline: readline_callback_read_char() called with no handler!
Aborted
$
Fix this by calling target_terminal_inferior before #3 above.
The test covers both scenarios by running with editing/readline forced
to both on and off.
gdb/
2014-07-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infcmd.c (attach_command_post_wait): Don't call
target_terminal_inferior here.
(attach_command): Call it here instead.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-07-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/attach-wait-input.exp: New file.
* gdb.base/attach-wait-input.c: New file.
