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Re: Sending signal to inferior


On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:43:00AM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 04:57:38AM +0000, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues de Almeida wrote:
> > Thank you.. I'm trying to solve this for days..
> 
> Wow, that took me a long time to figure out, and I wrote libtgdb.
> 
> It's the tty command that is allowing libtgdb to interrupt GDB when the
> inferior is running. Apparently, if you don't move the inferior's
> terminal via the GDB tty command, then you can't interrupt the inferior
> when it's running.
> 
> Basically, I'm assuming that the SIGINT to GDB is ignored if the
> inferior has control of the terminal. However, if you put the inferior
> on a different terminal, then GDB must handle the SIGINT. This
> explanation is just a guess though.

It shouldn't be.  Check whether GDB is reaching handle_sigint() and
whether it is going through the event loop properly?


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Daniel Jacobowitz
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