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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:12:00 -0000
From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
To: John Pye <john.pye@anu.edu.au>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, 	Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: usability: exiting from GDB
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:37:48AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. I for one do _not_ expect GDB to exit when I type ^c at the
prompt. GDB already has the correct behavior in terms of ^c and ^d.
That is, it behaves like bash.

Bob Rossi