This is an update of this patch:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-09/msg00884.html
This patch attempts to address PR gdb/23718 by re-enabling stdin
whenever an exception is caught during gdb.execute().
When Python gdb.execute() is called, an exception could occur (e.g. the
target disappearing), which is then converted into a Python exception. If
stdin was disabled before the exception is caught, it is not re-enabled,
because the exception doesn't propagate to the top level of the event loop,
whose catch block would otherwise enable it.
The result is that when execution of a Python script completes, GDB does
not prompt or accept input, and is effectively hung.
This change rectifies the issue by re-enabling stdin in the catch block of
execute_gdb_command, prior to converting the exception to a Python
exception.
Since this patch was originally posted I've added a test, and also I
converted the code to re-enable stdin from this:
SWITCH_THRU_ALL_UIS ()
{
async_enable_stdin ();
}
to simply this:
async_enable_stdin ();
My reasoning is that we only need the SWITCH_THRU_ALL_UIS if, at the time
the exception is caught, the current_ui might be different than at the time
we called async_disable_stdin. Within python's execute_gdb_command I think
it should be impossible to switch current_ui, so the SWITCH_THRU_ALL_UIS
isn't needed.
gdb/ChangeLog:
PR gdb/23718
* gdb/python/python.c (execute_gdb_command): Call
async_enable_stdin in catch block.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
PR gdb/23718
* gdb.server/server-kill-python.exp: New file.
Change-Id: I1cfc36ee9f8484cc1ed82be9be338353db6bc080
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