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Re: gdbserver tcsetpgrp() ??
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:35:17PM +0530, Vijay Saha, Noida wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have ported the gdbserver 5.3 on arm-linux target.
> But as soon as debugging finishes, the target system gets logged out.
>
> Then I had found that the "tcsetpgrp" in server.c:start_inferior() of
> gdbserver was the culprit.
> After commenting the line "tcsetpgrp (fileno (stderr), signal_pid);" , the
> logout problem got solved !!!
>
> I have also found that gdb-5.2 was not using this system call !!
>
> What does this tcsetpgrp actually doing ..?? (It has something to do with
> foreground processing of terminal ..means..??)
>
> How much is this necessary for remote debugging...??
Remote debugging will still work, sending control-c to interrupt the
program won't. Console handling on your target is severely broken if
that call is causing a problem.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer