From: Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] Document pseudo-terminal and interrupting changes
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 22:28:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837djawxvw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210603190243.2609886-18-pedro@palves.net> (message from Pedro Alves on Thu, 3 Jun 2021 20:02:43 +0100)
> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 20:02:43 +0100
>
> This documents changes done in previous patches:
>
> - the fact that on GNU/Linux, GDB creates a pseudo-terminal for the
> inferior instead of juggling terminal settings.
>
> - That when the inferior and GDB share the terminal, you can't
> interrupt some programs with Ctrl-C.
>
> - That on GNU/Linux, you may get "Program stopped." instead of
> "Program received SIGINT" in response to Ctrl-C.
>
> - That run+detach may result in the program dying with SIGHUP.
>
> I was surprised that we do not currently have a node/section
> specifically to talk about interrupting programs. Thus I've added a
> new "Interrupting" section under the "Stopping and Continuing"
> chapter, with some xrefs to other sections.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> yyyy-mm-dd Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
>
> * NEWS: Document pseudo-terminal, "tty /dev/tty" and Ctrl-C/SIGINT
> changes. Document "set/show debug managed-tty".
>
> gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
> yyyy-mm-dd Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
>
> * gdb.texinfo (Input/Output): Document that GDB may start a
> program associated with a pseudo-terminal. Document "tty
> /dev/tty". Document "set/show debug managed-tty".
> (Attach): Document what happens on run+detach on systems where GDB
> creates a pseudo-terminal for the inferior.
> (Stopping and Continuing): Add new Interrupting node.
> (Background Execution): Add anchor.
> (Features for Debugging MS Windows PE Executables): Add anchor.
This is okay, with one gotcha:
> +Depending on operating system and configuration, this results in
> +interrupting the program with either a @code{SIGINT} signal:
> +
> +@smallexample
> +Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
> +@end smallexample
> +
> +or plainly suspending the program:
You want @noindent before the last line above.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-03 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-03 19:02 [PATCH 00/17] Interrupting programs that block/ignore SIGINT Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 01/17] Test interrupting programs that block SIGINT [gdb/9425, gdb/14559] Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 02/17] prefork_hook: Remove 'args' parameter Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 03/17] Fix silent gdb.base/annota1.exp test coverage regression Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:28 ` Andrew Burgess
2021-06-14 20:30 ` Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 04/17] Make gdb.base/long-inferior-output.exp fail fast Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 05/17] Fix gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp race Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 06/17] Don't check parent pid in gdb.threads/{ia64-sigill, siginfo-threads, watchthreads-reorder}.c Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 07/17] Special-case "set inferior-tty /dev/tty" Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 08/17] Make inferior/GDB share terminal in run+detach testcases Pedro Alves
2021-07-02 19:31 ` Tom Tromey
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 09/17] Make inferior/GDB share terminal in tests that exercise GDB/inferior reading same input Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 10/17] gdb.mi/mi-logging.exp, don't send input to GDB while the inferior is running Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 11/17] target_terminal::ours_for_output before printing signal received Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 12/17] Move scoped_ignore_sigttou to gdbsupport/ Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 13/17] Always put inferiors in their own terminal/session [gdb/9425, gdb/14559] Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 14/17] exists_non_stop_target: Avoid flushing frames Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 15/17] convert previous_inferior_ptid to strong reference to thread_info Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 16/17] GNU/Linux: Interrupt/Ctrl-C with SIGSTOP instead of SIGINT [PR gdb/9425, PR gdb/14559] Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 17/17] Document pseudo-terminal and interrupting changes Pedro Alves
2021-06-03 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches [this message]
2021-06-03 19:51 ` [PATCH 00/17] Interrupting programs that block/ignore SIGINT Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2021-06-13 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2021-06-14 16:29 ` Pedro Alves
2021-06-14 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2021-06-14 17:55 ` Pedro Alves
2021-06-15 12:18 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2021-06-15 15:50 ` John Baldwin
2021-06-15 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2021-06-15 16:41 ` John Baldwin
2021-06-16 10:01 ` Pedro Alves
2021-06-16 12:10 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2021-06-16 15:06 ` John Baldwin
2021-07-02 19:35 ` Tom Tromey
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