Re: SIGINT sent to executable

teawater
2009-02-02T07:06:47Z

I think this is because
> Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description
SIGINT Yes Yes No Interrupt

Stop mean that when inferior get a sigint, gdb will stop the inferior.

I think you can try to use command "handle" to set it to "No".

Thanks,
Hui

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:18, Sushrut Sardeshmukh <bestbrain@gmail.com> wrote:
> I searched google before sending this email. But could not find the
> solution to the problem :(
>
> I am using ddd+gdb on Linux to debug executable which handles SIGINT
> to do graceful shutdown.
>
> gdb is set not to pass SIGINT to executable.
> (gdb) info signal
> Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description
> SIGHUP Yes Yes Yes Hangup
> SIGINT Yes Yes No Interrupt
>
> However, when I press Interrupt button in ddd, executable gets SIGINT
> and it does graceful shutdown. Totalview debugger is able to interrupt
> execution. So it must be something wrong with the way I am setting up
> gdb.
>
> How can I interrupt the execution and get gdb prompt (to set another
> breapoint/ watchpoint) but not send SIGINT to executable ?
>
>
> Here is version info about gdb
> gdb --version
> GNU gdb 6.8
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/
> gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show
> copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
>