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Re: usability: exiting from GDB
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 14:59 +1100, John Pye wrote:
> I find the ctrl-C behaviour unhelpful (ie suggesting I quit instead of
> asking me if I'd like to go ahead and do it) but it's not important really.
There's your misunderstanding -- gdb is not suggesting that you quit.
"Quit" is gdb's standard response to SIGINT, ie. ctrl-c. Ie. it is
responding "ok, I have quit", even though it was not doing anything.
Possibly it would make sense to suppress the "Quit" in this
circumstance, and just print another prompt. But I wouldn't
call it a high priority issue, and in async circumstances
it might not even be the right thing to do.
Michael