lldb hangs during reverse-connect if lldb-server dies

Subprojects LLDB
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With reverse-connect, lldb gets a port from the OS, spawns a listen thread using the port, and launches lldb-server/debugserver, telling it to connect back to lldb. lldb with then join with the listen thread. The listen thread calls accept() to wait for the server to connect back to it.

On Linux (and possibly other OSes), if lldb-server dies or quits before connecting, lldb will hang. It sits waiting for accept() to return, but it never will.

If the child dies, the listen thread should be killed, and an error returned to the user.

This is easily seen on Linux. Simply point to an alternate debugserver. Set LLDB_DEBUGSERVER_PATH to something else, say /bin/ls. This will finish and never connect back to lldb.

→ setenv LLDB_DEBUGSERVER_PATH /bin/ls

->bin/lldb /bin/ls

(lldb) target create “/bin/ls”

Current executable set to ‘/bin/ls’ (x86_64).

(lldb) r

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We should implement a timeout of say 5 seconds (since this is a locally spawned lldb-server) and also watch for the spawned lldb-server process to be reaped. If the lldb-server gets reaped we need to cancel. Don't do any fancy thread canceling (no pthread_cancel or anything like that) if you do fix this, just have something locally connect to the socket and allow the accept thread to exit normally.

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How about calling select() before accept() with a 5 second timeout. If we
get a timeout, clean up and return an error. If we don't get a timeout,
there's activity on the socket, so the normal path would handle any issues.