Changeset 2443ad8 in mainline for uspace/lib/c/generic/loader.c

Timestamp:

2019-10-02T09:27:57Z (5 years ago)

Author:

Jiri Svoboda <jiri@…>

Branches:

lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export

Children:

9dcf472

Parents:

6fa3a03

git-author:

Jiri Svoboda <jiri@…> (2019-10-01 17:23:52)

git-committer:

Jiri Svoboda <jiri@…> (2019-10-02 09:27:57)

Message:

Let trace not use the loader API directly

This fixes traced binaries crashing due to missing working directory
in PCB. It should also prevent similar problems in the future.

File:

• uspace/lib/c/generic/loader.c (modified) (1 diff)

uspace/lib/c/generic/loader.c

@@ -345 +345 @@
 }
 
+/** Instruct loader to execute the program and do not wait for reply.
+ *
+ * This function does not block even if the loaded task is stopped
+ * for debugging.
+ *
+ * After using this function, no further operations can be performed
+ * on the loader structure and it is deallocated.
+ *
+ * @param ldr Loader connection structure.
+ *
+ * @return Zero on success or an error code.
+ *
+ */
+void loader_run_nowait(loader_t *ldr)
+{
+        async_exch_t *exch = async_exchange_begin(ldr->sess);
+        async_msg_0(exch, LOADER_RUN);
+        async_exchange_end(exch);
+
+        async_hangup(ldr->sess);
+        free(ldr);
+}
+
 /** Cancel the loader session.
  *