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RE: GDB Interrupts on Cygwin
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:26:56 -0000
- Subject: RE: GDB Interrupts on Cygwin
On 17 March 2006 08:55, Doug Bohl wrote:
> When running a Windows application from GDB,
> Ctrl-C
> supposedly sends the SIGINT signal to GDB, breaking the running
> application and restoring control to GDB. However, this does not
> appear to work, at least not on Cygwin.
>
> I've tried /bin/kill -f -s SIGINT pid. Sending SIGINT, or in fact any
> other signal, simply terminates the Windows application.
It's not entirely surprising that windows applications aren't aware of
cygwin signal handling!
Have you tried running it with a mingw (i.e. windows native) version of gdb?
cheers,
DaveK
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