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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIGTERM handler
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051125175433.GA736@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437B6374.1@st.com>

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:51:00PM +0000, Andrew STUBBS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch adds a handler for SIGTERM.
> 
> The main purpose is to ensure that GDB quit through quit_force() and
> therefore properly disconnects from the target. This is quite important
> for our target interface and should do no harm for anybody else's.
> 
> It also ensures that --return-child-result works when GDB exits this way.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andrew Stubbs

> 2005-11-16  Andrew Stubbs  <andrew.stubbs@st.com>
> 
> 	* event-top.h (async_init_signals): Add SIGTERM handler.
> 	(handle_sigterm): New function.
> 	* event-top.h (handle_sigterm): New prototype.

I'm dubious as to the value of this, but why not - patch is OK.  I
never send GDB a SIGTERM, but I send it SIGKILL on a regular basis.
I guess it may get SIGTERMs during clean shutdown.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-25 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16 19:29 Andrew STUBBS
2005-11-25 18:06 ` Andrew STUBBS
2005-11-25 18:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-11-25 20:13   ` Andrew STUBBS

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