Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4030DBAD.9030308@att.net> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:03:09 -0500 From: David Fritz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Known feature? References: <402FFCB8.5030807@tlinx.org> <20040216124105.GE18953@cygbert.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20040216124105.GE18953@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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()). PTC et al. Cheers -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/