Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/16/11:14:03
On Feb 16 10:03, David Fritz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Feb 15 15:11, linda w wrote:
> >
> >>I decided to trace a 3 day long running process (the dd/bzip program)
> >>that was
> >>nearing completion (had a couple hundred meg to go), and much to my
> >>chagrin,
> >>when I wanted to stop tracing, I pressed control-c -- and unlike the
> >>behavior I'm
> >>used to in linux, it didn't just terminate the process being traced, but
> >>also
> >>terminated the program that had been attached to!
> >>
> >>Very very much of a bummer, since it takes 3+ days, apparently, to run
> >>and come near
> >>to completing this test. Very, very sad....oh well...
> >>
> >>Is this a "feature" or a "bug"?
> >
> >
> >It's Windows.
> >
>
> Indeed it is. Though I'd note that Windows XP and later allow debuggers to
> detach from a process without killing it. (DebugActiveProcessStop(),
> DebugSetProcessKillOnExit()).
Indeed, it's already implemented in GDB.
> PTC et al.
That's the spirit!
Corinna
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