Hi Neil,
We've been having problems with this select patch change.
Specifically -- previously, when a ptrace attach was done to a task
blocked in a select() call and that task had a timeout value,
the task would restart the select() call with an updated timeout value.
With this patch in place, the task now instead returns EINTR.
A test that shows this issue is provided below.
We also confirmed that attaching to a program sitting
in select() with gdb makes the select get an EINTR, so this
behavior also shows up in gdb.
Thank you for your considerations in this matter.
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
int
main(int argc, char ** argv) {
pid_t kid;
if ((kid = fork()) == 0) {
int ms_wait = 2000;
int rval;
struct timeval timeout;
timeout.tv_sec = ms_wait / 1000;
timeout.tv_usec = (ms_wait % 1000) * 1000;
rval = select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &timeout);
if (rval == -1) {
int errcode = errno;
printf("Hey! Why did my select error off with errno %d (%s)?\n",
errcode, strerror(errcode));
fflush(stdout);
} else {
printf("select call completed, return value: %d\n", rval);
}
exit(0);
} else if (kid == (pid_t)-1) {
perror("fork");
} else {
int ms_wait = 500;
int rval;
struct timeval timeout;
/* Wait a bit to make sure kid has a chance to get into its
* select call
*/
timeout.tv_sec = ms_wait / 1000;
timeout.tv_usec = (ms_wait % 1000) * 1000;
rval = select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &timeout);
/* Now attach to the kid, then continue him.
*/
if (ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, kid, (void *)0, (void *)0) != 0) {
perror("ptrace");
}
if (waitpid(kid, &rval, 0) != kid) {
perror("waitpid");
}
if (ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, kid, (void *)0, (void *)0) != 0) {
perror("ptrace");
}
if (waitpid(kid, &rval, 0) != kid) {
perror("waitpid");
}
}
return 0;
}
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