From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2950 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2006 13:38:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 2935 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Nov 2006 13:38:06 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:37:59 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GpPdE-0007cD-34; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:37:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:38:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: John Pye Cc: Joel Brobecker , Andrew STUBBS , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: usability: exiting from GDB Message-ID: <20061129133748.GC28834@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: John Pye , Joel Brobecker , Andrew STUBBS , gdb@sourceware.org References: <456A79B5.2020505@anu.edu.au> <456AFA30.80508@st.com> <456CFDF8.10408@anu.edu.au> <20061129050452.GK9968@adacore.com> <456D33C6.4050407@anu.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <456D33C6.4050407@anu.edu.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) 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/msg00221.txt.bz2 On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 06:16:22PM +1100, John Pye wrote: > The whole thing is that gdb is like a shell. And shells can be exited by > typing ctrl-D. It's about consistency with other similar tools. That's > my feeling, anyway. Did you read the previous replies to your message? Shells don't exit when you press C-c and it would be upsetting to at least some users if GDB did; it does exit if you press C-d at a prompt. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery