Known feature?

[David Fritz]

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





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