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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: GDB Interrupts on Cygwin
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:26:56 -0000
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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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