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 d617208bb0
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.
5c811d30d1