Hi, Rolf told me that this does indeed work as expected. I just finished a testsuite run against a native cygwin gdbserver on XP, and spotted no regressions. Daniel, OK to commit? On Wednesday 05 November 2008 01:03:22, Pedro Alves wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2008 18:35:15, Dr. Rolf Jansen wrote: > > I experimented a little bit with gdbserver --multi in remote-xtended > > mode on Windows XP and I had one major problem in debugging a gui > > application. If I regularly quit the gui app, to which gdbserver is > > attached, its open windows remain at the screen, and while although > > inresponsive they are still part of the window hierarchy of Windows. > > > > > > Observations: > > - the gui app is terminates itself by calling exit(0). > > - if I quit gdbserver, the open zombie-windows disappear > > - in non-multi/remote-extended-mode gdbserver this problem > > does not appear, because gdbserver terminates itself > > together with the application > > > > > > I found a solution that works for me, although, there might be better > > ways. > > > > At line 1456 of win32-low.c I added: > > > > TerminateProcess (current_process_handle, > > current_event.u.ExitProcess.dwExitCode); > > child_continue (DBG_TERMINATE_PROCESS, -1); > > > > > > > > This code is added in event-handler switch() of > > get_child_debug_event() and the respective case block looks now like: > > > > case EXIT_PROCESS_DEBUG_EVENT: > > OUTMSG2 (("gdbserver: kernel event EXIT_PROCESS_DEBUG_EVENT " > > "for pid=%d tid=%x\n", > > (unsigned) current_event.dwProcessId, > > (unsigned) current_event.dwThreadId)); > > ourstatus->kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED; > > ourstatus->value.integer = > > current_event.u.ExitProcess.dwExitCode; > > > > > TerminateProcess (current_process_handle, > > current_event.u.ExitProcess.dwExitCode); > > child_continue (DBG_TERMINATE_PROCESS, -1); > > > Hmm, I haven't tried this, but, are you sure you need to > terminate the process like this? Wouldn't a > child_continue (DBG_CONTINUE, -1) work here? It's what > native gdb does (it's in win32_mourn_inferior). > I can't find it now, but I'm almost sure that's documented somewhere > as required for the debugger to do (I scratched my head once at why > was win32_mourn_inferior telling the dead process to continue, and found > that out). Well, I could be wrong though. > -- Pedro Alves