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From: Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB (not) handling SIGINT...?
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b62b6016ee54a525a4a78618be56b21f1e462df.camel@mad-scientist.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <276f4526-1873-0072-206c-c45bb47be3f6@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 16:24 +0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
> With current GDB, you can work around this by attaching in non-stop
> mode ("set non-stop on"), and then using "continue&" to continue in
> the background, and the "interrupt" command to interrupt.

Tricksy!

> If you're OK with hacking GDB, s/SIGINT/SIGSTOP/g in child_pass_ctrlc
> should work reasonably OK, even though not perfect.

Oh, I understand now.  The SIGINT is passed to the child to get it to
stop.  Somehow I assumed that there was a magical ptrace way to do
this, rather than having to send normal signals.

I guess there is now: using PTRACE_SEIZE instead of PTRACE_ATTACH,
which will allow you to later send PTRACE_INTERRUPT: presumably if this
were used would solve the problem for attached processes anyway...?


  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-15 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-13 22:37 Paul Smith
2018-11-14 22:32 ` Simon Marchi
2018-11-15 13:55   ` Pedro Alves
2018-11-15 16:01     ` Paul Smith
2018-11-15 16:24       ` Pedro Alves
2018-11-15 18:01         ` Paul Smith [this message]
2018-11-15 18:04           ` Pedro Alves
2018-11-15 18:27             ` Paul Smith
2018-11-19 19:07         ` Paul Smith
2018-11-19 19:44           ` Paul Smith

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