Known feature?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Feb 16 12:44:00 GMT 2004


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.

Corinna

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