RE: segfault: what should happen when I remove an inferior that is running?

[Marc Khouzam <marc dot khouzam at ericsson dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro Alves [mailto:pedro@codesourcery.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 7:10 AM
> To: Marc Khouzam
> Cc: Tom Tromey; gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: segfault: what should happen when I remove an 
> inferior that is running?
> 
> On Saturday 18 December 2010 02:46:39, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> > From: Pedro Alves [pedro@codesourcery.com]
> > Sent: December 14, 2010 10:23 AM
> > 
> > > On Tuesday 14 December 2010 15:08:31, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > >      Removes the inferior INFNO.  It is not possible to 
> remove an
> > > >      inferior that is running with this command.
> > > >
> > > > I think this means we are missing an error check somewhere.
> > > 
> > > Yeah.  I guess we could also offer to kill it or some such,
> > > but I guess I must have thought that it'd be simpler to
> > > just error out.  (either way, the user needs to take further
> > > action, so erroring out is simpler.)
> > 
> > This patch errors out for 'remove-inferior' and '-remove-inferior'
> > if the inferior still has a pid.
> > 
> > No regressions.
> > 
> > If it is ok, please let me know if you want it only in HEAD or
> > also in 7_2.
> 
> "running inferior" will sound a bit odd for cores, but,
> since I don't have a better suggestion that wouldn't involve
> more coding, this is okay with me (HEAD and 7_2).

Would "Can not remove a an active inferior." be better?

Marc


> > 
> > 2010-12-17  Marc Khouzam  <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
> > 
> >         * inferior.c (remove_inferior_command): Don't 
> remove a running inferior.
> > 	* mi/mi-main.c (mi_cmd_remove_inferior): Ditto.
> > 
> > ### Eclipse Workspace Patch 1.0
> > #P src
> > Index: gdb/inferior.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/inferior.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.20
> > diff -u -r1.20 inferior.c
> > --- gdb/inferior.c      28 Nov 2010 04:31:24 -0000      1.20
> > +++ gdb/inferior.c      18 Dec 2010 02:39:50 -0000
> > @@ -755,6 +755,9 @@
> >    if (inf == current_inferior ())
> >      error (_("Can not remove current symbol inferior."));
> >  
> > +  if (inf->pid != 0)
> > +    error (_("Can not remove a running inferior."));
> > +
> >    delete_inferior_1 (inf, 1);
> >  }
> >  
> > Index: gdb/mi/mi-main.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/mi/mi-main.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.184
> > diff -u -r1.184 mi-main.c
> > --- gdb/mi/mi-main.c    18 Dec 2010 02:10:05 -0000      1.184
> > +++ gdb/mi/mi-main.c    18 Dec 2010 02:39:50 -0000
> > @@ -1772,6 +1772,9 @@
> >    if (!inf)
> >      error ("the specified thread group does not exist");
> >  
> > +  if (inf->pid != 0)
> > +    error ("can not remove a running inferior");
> > +
> >    if (inf == current_inferior ())
> >      {
> >        struct thread_info *tp = 0;
> > 
>