[09/30] Introduce interruptible_select

  We have places where we call a blocking gdb_select expecting that a
Ctrl-C will unblock it.  However, if the Ctrl-C is pressed just before
gdb_select, the SIGINT handler runs before gdb_select, and thus
gdb_select won't return.

For example gdb_readline_no_editing:

       QUIT;

       /* Wait until at least one byte of data is available.  Control-C
          can interrupt gdb_select, but not fgetc.  */
       FD_ZERO (&readfds);
       FD_SET (fd, &readfds);
       if (gdb_select (fd + 1, &readfds, NULL, NULL, NULL) == -1)

and stdio_file_read:

     /* For the benefit of Windows, call gdb_select before reading from
	the file.  Wait until at least one byte of data is available.
	Control-C can interrupt gdb_select, but not read.  */
     {
       fd_set readfds;
       FD_ZERO (&readfds);
       FD_SET (stdio->fd, &readfds);
       if (gdb_select (stdio->fd + 1, &readfds, NULL, NULL, NULL) == -1)
	 return -1;
     }
     return read (stdio->fd, buf, length_buf);

This is a race classically fixed with either the self-pipe trick, or
by blocking SIGINT and then using pselect instead of select.

Blocking SIGINT most of the time would mean that check_quit_flag (and
thus QUIT) would need to do a syscall every time it is called, which
sounds best avoided, since QUIT is called in many loops.  Thus we take
the self-pipe trick route (wrapped in a serial event).

Instead of having all places that need this manually add an extra file
descriptor to the set of gdb_select's watched file descriptors, we
introduce a wrapper, interruptible_select, that does that.

The Windows version of gdb_select actually does not suffer from this,
because mingw-hdep.c:gdb_call_async_signal_handler sets a Windows
event that gdb_select always waits on.  So this patch can be seen as
generalization of that technique.  We can't remove that extra event
from mingw-hdep.c until we get rid of immediate_quit though.

gdb/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* defs.h: Extend QUIT-related comments to mention
	interruptible_select.
	(quit_serial_event_set, quit_serial_event_clear): Declare.
	* event-top.c: Include "ser-event.h" and "gdb_select.h".
	(quit_serial_event): New global.
	(async_init_signals): Make quit_serial_event.
	(quit_serial_event_set, quit_serial_event_clear)
	(quit_serial_event_fd, interruptible_select): New functions.
	* extension.c (set_quit_flag): Set the quit serial event.
	(check_quit_flag): Clear the quit serial event.
	* gdb_select.h (interruptible_select): New declaration.
	* guile/scm-ports.c (ioscm_input_waiting): Use
	interruptible_select instead of gdb_select.
	* top.c (gdb_readline_no_editing): Likewise.
	* ui-file.c (stdio_file_read): Likewise.
---
 gdb/defs.h            | 11 ++++++++
 gdb/event-top.c       | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 gdb/extension.c       | 15 ++++++++++-
 gdb/gdb_select.h      | 15 +++++++++++
 gdb/guile/scm-ports.c |  4 ++-
 gdb/top.c             |  4 +--
 gdb/ui-file.c         |  8 +++---
 7 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

[09/30] Introduce interruptible_select

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