From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27335 invoked by alias); 30 Nov 2006 21:49:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 27326 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Nov 2006 21:49:40 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx2.palmsource.com (HELO mx2.palmsource.com) (12.7.175.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:49:32 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.domain.tld (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC984103CC1; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:49:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.palmsource.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx2.palmsource.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13818-02-74; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:49:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ussunex01.palmsource.com (unknown [192.168.101.9]) by mx2.palmsource.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFBD103CC0; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:49:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from 192.168.92.189 ([192.168.92.189]) by ussunex01.palmsource.com ([192.168.101.9]) via Exchange Front-End Server owa.palmsource.com ([10.0.20.17]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:49:29 +0000 Received: from svmsnyderlnx by owa.palmsource.com; 30 Nov 2006 13:49:29 -0800 Subject: Re: usability: exiting from GDB From: Michael Snyder To: John Pye Cc: Joel Brobecker , Andrew STUBBS , gdb@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <456E5704.8060102@anu.edu.au> References: <456A79B5.2020505@anu.edu.au> <456AFA30.80508@st.com> <456CFDF8.10408@anu.edu.au> <20061129050452.GK9968@adacore.com> <456D33C6.4050407@anu.edu.au> <20061129133748.GC28834@nevyn.them.org> <456E5704.8060102@anu.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:49:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1164923368.14460.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-11/txt/msg00251.txt.bz2 On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 14:59 +1100, John Pye wrote: > I find the ctrl-C behaviour unhelpful (ie suggesting I quit instead of > asking me if I'd like to go ahead and do it) but it's not important really. There's your misunderstanding -- gdb is not suggesting that you quit. "Quit" is gdb's standard response to SIGINT, ie. ctrl-c. Ie. it is responding "ok, I have quit", even though it was not doing anything. Possibly it would make sense to suppress the "Quit" in this circumstance, and just print another prompt. But I wouldn't call it a high priority issue, and in async circumstances it might not even be the right thing to do. Michael