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Re: gdb attach/detach kills the target process
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:33:38PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On 18 Jun 2003, Sam Steingold wrote:
>
> > run a process in a cygwin window, find out its PID, run gdb in another
> > window, attach to that process, then detach from it.
> > the target process stops responding as soon as it is attached to.
> > detaching changes nothing.
> > only after I exit gdb, I get the original window responding, with the
> > terminal in raw start (need to do "reset" in bash) and the process that
> > gdb attached to dead.
> >
> > I tested this on python and clisp.
>
> That's the way Windows debugging works -- once you attach to a process,
> detaching from it kills the process. No way around it.
...up to Windows 2000. Since XP, Windows has a new function call to
detach from a process and let it running. gdb is using this call if
it's availbale on the system.
Corinna
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